Hi Andy, A former classmate of mine came up with this eloquent prescription for learning interaction design:
. . . http://tinyurl.com/69r5mg "You tell him I said to take a long unstructured walk around his city. Talk to strangers. Take pictures. Visit at least one museum. Pretend like he%u2019s from somewhere else for an hour. Stop in a park to read Raymond Carver%u2019s %u201CWhat we talk about when we talk about love.%u201D (out loud would be rad, but I leave that up to him.) Go into a music store, find two people who seem completely different from him and buy whatever they are buying. And then end his travels at your house where he%u2019ll tell you the story of his day over a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin. The story should last as long as the bottle. "Then like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid tell him all the things he already knows interaction design without even realizing it. "And to answer the question before you ask - why Bombay Sapphire Gin? Gin because it%u2019s yummy. Bombay Sapphire because it%u2019s beautiful. We%u2019re still designers after all. ; )" . . . I'd love to have had a class like that at some point. On a more practical note, Dan Saffer's syllabus from his Visual Interface Design course is available online. It's got readings and projects all wrapped up in a tidy little bundle: http://www.odannyboy.com/vid05/ // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34437 ________________________________________________________________ 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
