Chrstine, UCD is a collection of methods, not the act of "thinking of users". So your saying that Google is into UCD I don't find helpful. Heck, Apple does UCD from that perspective, and so does Walmart. The point people were making was around the use of the classic IBM class of UCD practice skills/processes.
Andrei, ... I don't want to ruin this otherwise great thread here. If I got some time I'll respond in a separate thread. But let's get back to the point of the thread. At the core, interaction design is about building the frameworks that other disciplines hang their form making on top of. (So yes, I DO still separate interaction from interface, the same way I separate graphics from industrial). I say this because I have seen quite clearly 2 people take on the different roles based on experience and knowledge. This tells me that form making and framework definition are really different. Now this being said, the more I know about form making the more valuable my role is as an interaction designer. Of course, I could say the same about business and technology as well. The reason that prototyping and other form making is required for our education is that the only way to practice interaction design is to build forms around the interactions you are designing and in an educational setting you don't have another department to work with like you do in the real world. Also, while I disagree with the strength of the 37Signal's latest blog post, I do agree in spirit that being able to make things makes the process of designing interactions a heck of a lot easier. ;-) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30515 ________________________________________________________________ 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
