David is completely right, however, it seems valuable to draw a line somewhere.
Interface Design was and is the practice of designing the way someone interacts with a product, traditionally on a screen by screen basis. Interaction Design grew out of Interface Design, as those who practiced it realized that in order to design a very useful product, you must begin by designing how people will interact with it as a whole. Interaction Design (IxD) is a reverse blanket term that describes how people apply many theories in psychology and physiology, including Heuristics, Cybernetics, Ergonomics, Planning Theory, and even more disparate fields dealing with Audio and Visual design. To reduce that. Interface Design is about where buttons appear on a page, and what those buttons look like. IxD is whether or not that page needs to exist at all. Or Interface Design will tell you how best to ask a user for his address, IxD will tell you to harvest it from somewhere that you already have it stored. Or Interface Designers design interfaces, IxDs design ways to avoid them. Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34525 ________________________________________________________________ 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
