To further my position: I was thinking that, based on Deleuze (and reacting to Kant), that a philosophical concept "posits itself and its object at the same time as it is created." Which is exactly the point I think Vander Wal et al were stating in discussions about identity/object. What can Deleuze tell us about identity and object within the ecosystem of social mediated networking sites - and specifically - the IxDA list which is just such a consensual hallucination (Gibson) of 'being' in space over time? The philosophy of IxD is best understood as the manufacture of concepts and more closely resembles practical or artistic production than it does an adjunct to a definitive scientific description of a pre-existing methodology (as in the tradition of Locke or Quine). This has interesting implications for the IxD list in general and DTDT discussions in particular. This explains, in part, the amount of effort spent on meta-topics such as UCD/ACD.
I mean after reviewing the multifarious discussion here, I can't help but wonder why it so reminded me of Kant's transcendental idealism - experience (design) only makes sense when organized by intellectual categories (such as method, tactics, and prototypes). By the nature of what we do, we immediately fall into this trap, and perhaps that is limiting. Taking such intellectual concepts out of the context of experience, according to Kant, spawns seductive but senseless metaphysical beliefs like ACD might somehow make us better designers than some other method. Do we think this is really so? Following Deleuze, I think we should consider inverting Kant's arrangement: experience exceeds our concepts by presenting novelty, and this raw experience of difference actualizes an idea, unfettered by our prior categories, forcing us to invent new activities, new ways of considering how we do things like sketch, brainstorm, prototype as a fulcrum to force an entirely new gestalt on the interface itself, and perhaps this is where innovation comes from. Or perhaps not. Just my thoughts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33980 ________________________________________________________________ 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
