You're right. we are never going to agree to this, b/c I live in your version of bizaro world. I just don't see any evidence to what you are talking about at all. My universe is leaning towards greater segmentation in both practice and education b/c of the failures of people over generalizing and creating mediocrity.
I think YOU have combined them into yourself and YOU hunt for people and situations that fit your world view. But through my career (not quite as long as yours, but respectable in its diversity and breadth and more importantly global reach) has taken me through the Valley, through NY Advertising, NY Financial, French software, Global hardware, and NY startup has all been about IxD segmentation instead of general UI Design unification. And when I look at the educational landscape today for IxD, ID and Interactive Design the segmentation exists in everything except Interactive, but the graduates of interactive are not sought by software or ID folks b/c they don't understand them due to the lack of theoretical understanding and design practice. Engineers with a 'sense' of aesthetics is how I refer to them. So I'll just let the rest of this discussion go then. B/c not only do we disagree, but we have different lenses on making it impossible to come to agreement. Well, I agree that most of Google's products (actually including the 3 mentioned: are "good enough" and not really good.) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33500 ________________________________________________________________ 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
