On May 8, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Dan Saffer wrote:
As far as I know, this is the first time an interaction designer has appeared on a TV commercial for a product, much less mention bits of our philosophy.
So the guy in the commercial says he designs user interfaces and you translate that into he does "interaction design." Even to this day I still find that tragically amusing. Unless of course the folks on the board for the IxDA want to finally acknowledge that to design user interfaces you have to be to do more than just worry about the interaction piece and get into all those other distractions like pixel accurate type, color and composition for the final design plus more.
I still don't understand the disdain for calling oneself an interface designer. It is and always has been the logical choice to describe the job since it's also the easiest thing to do to say, "I design interfaces" therefore "I'm an interface designer."
This is a rhetorical remark, by the way. But even so, thread hijack commencing in three... two... one...
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