Hmmm? I agree that those are all good things for IxD, but they are not limited to IxD, right? I mean if I was a carpenter, the physical tasks of manipulating and combining wood would be the makings of the craft, right? Now you could say that a wheeler and barrel maker have to work with wood too, but in my mind they are specialist carpenters that also have to do blacksmithing as part of their total artisanship. but the metaphor goes on ...
I think when I first read Matt's take on Pauric's post, I was like, "Ok, I can buy this." But when I read the actual list (i'm very multi-linear with this list sometimes) I was lost. So what I was thinking was an analog. What would be our "muscle memory" where for the musician floating through scales is unconscious in nature. I don't see "pattern recognition" as analogous to anything like that. When I think of my "flow" moments as an IxD, it is mostly about "pixel" and "type" in some way. Basically, how well I can move the keyboard &/or mouse against the virtual spaces I'm working in. My tools are indeed my OS, Adobe whatever and MS whatever. My mastery of these tools is in the end where I think I'm beginning and ending. To go back to Pauric's notion is there a "savant" like ability for pattern recognition that someone can obtain? Is that "enough"? As a non-maker designer (and I know many of don't fit this bill), I really do feel more and more like a director of craftspeople and less like a craftsperson myself. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32320 ________________________________________________________________ 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
