Bullseye! Chris
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > >> I'd just want to note that Google, Facebook, and Twitter above, do >> practice >> something I would call Interactive Design (which is not necessarily HCD), >> in >> that the SOCIAL element is the center. This is what I call out as the most >> essential nature of true interactivity, not just branching structures and >> options for "audience-participation," but seeing the social aspect as >> actually giving power to audiences as true co-creators of the >> communally-authored virtual landscape. How do these and other similar >> grassroots or social-centered designs manifest and evolve? Generally, so >> far >> in how this is working itself out in cybercultures, it happens with beta >> releases, and big ears on the part of the platform hosts/authors. They >> release some of their bread upon the waters, and then watch what the >> social >> co-authors do with it, and design from that point on collaboratively, >> dialogically, with actual users, often of fairly large scale. > > > >> >> >> I'm not talking about design by committee (blah) so much as I'm talking >> about defining the essence of interactivity as POWER-SHARING, and for >> Designers to share creation/design power with social forces that will use >> the platform or designs, DESIGNERS MUST GIVE UP POWER. > > > Well, if that doesn't sound like the "death of the author," ala peanut > butter sandwiches, Barthes, and Foucault -- than I don't know what is! > > "If any field has accepted > the death of the author, surely it is HCI. As much as > many interface designers would like to be treated as > Hirsch's author, which would suggest that it is the > user's obligation to figure out and proceed in accord > with the designer's intentions, the fact is HCI has long > embraced the opposite position. The user matters more > than the designer, and design research is often largely > synonymous with user research." > > Barzell, "Interaction Criticism: A Proposal and Framework for a New > Discipline of HCI," CHI 2008. > ________________________________________________________________ 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
