"Now, you might hand that off to someone else to spit and polish, but in reality, you can't do one w/o impacting the other."
As much as I try to limit the definitions of the practice, I can't limit the practitioner. Depending on what I am working on - I may do nothing more than interview people, do user research and write personas. I might do just wirerframes based on functional specs and requirements. I might do Wireframes and interaction design. Right now I am doing wireframes, interaction design, visual design (yep!), and coding the front end html and css -- because in a room with 3 other people, thats it - and they are all hard core SE, I am the only one that can. So huge overlap. And I wouldn't want it any other way. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote: > > > at what point do you stop being an interface designer that does some > > interaction design and become an interaction designer that does some > > interface design? > > You don't. There's overlap. It's nearly impossible to do interaction > design without doing some interface design—the reverse is also true. > They're co-dependent on each other. If you're designing the interface, > then you're going to start getting into the weeds of interaction. > Likewise, if you're designing the interaction, you're going to start > getting into the weeds of the interface. > > Now, you might hand that off to someone else to spit and polish, but > in reality, you can't do one w/o impacting the other. > > > Cheers! > > Todd Zaki Warfel > President, Design Researcher > Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. > ---------------------------------- > Contact Info > Voice: (215) 825-7423 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog: http://toddwarfel.com > ---------------------------------- > In theory, theory and practice are the same. > In practice, they are not. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it." Alan Cooper - "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
