Well, somebody has to be unpopular... I don't think there is a difference really, in that Interaction Design IMHO is not long for this world as a stand-alone discipline. There are many, many kinds of designers, from architects to interface designers to interior designers. Any field of design needs to consider the interaction of the viewer or the user, else who are we designing for?
With the advent of web design, job titles got a little screwy. Trying to keep up with who does what on a web team from company to company is like playing whack-a-mole. At one place I'm a web designer, at another I'm the IA, at another I'm the user experience architect, yada, yada, yada. I'm glad that there has been a push to bring web design's focus back towards the practical considerations of interaction. That said though, I don't think we'll be looking at Interaction Designers as a separate practice in a few years, and academically I think it will settle in as a sub-field within psychology, e.g. cognitive studies. Just my opinion, I swear I'm not trolling! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
