Christina, This is why these methods are great for teaching. They show the young people the core things to do in a framework that is something of a road-map. Do this, you'll get here.
It will instill good practices: Goal-mindset versus Task/Feature-mindset Persona/Archetypes versus Panels of users Designing as the Advocate for the User rather than Designing as the advocate of the programmer. There will always be hacks in any industry, and the companies that hire them will suffer. The companies that hire well-trained, intelligent IxDs will prosper. In other words, I agree with you that renaming won't fix the problem, because there isn't a problem. IxD, as discussed here, has become academic and that is exactly the kind of thing we need to happen, because that is what all the other fields are like. Go to a typography summit and ask them about terminology, modes of thought, and simple things like when it is cool to use sans-serif and when you should use serif. They'll break into the same arguments. The fact that our language is fine-tuned enough for us to have this argument is something great for us. Sorry, I kinda went off topic some. I think everyone has at this point. Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
