I love these exercises. They are the IxD equivalent of fantasy dinner parties. To the excellent lists below, I would add:
Peter Checkland, who developed and promoted Soft System Methodology Bruce Mau, for his Massive Change project John Ive, because his products delight and mesmerize me even though I do not own any marianne [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Fahey Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:52 PM To: IXDA list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats? On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Dan Saffer wrote: > I humbly submit (in order of appearance): > Vannevar Bush > Ivan Sutherland > Doug Engelbart > Bob Taylor > Alan Kay > Larry Tesler > Tim Mott > Mitch Kapor > Jef Raskin > Bill Atkinson > Shigeru Miyamoto > Marc Andreessen > Jeff Hawkins > Will Wright > My criteria was a lasting contribution via products to the shared > language of interaction design that has informed and inspired current > generations of designers (knowingly or unknowingly). I appreciate Dan's focus on *people who have designed things*, rather than the many people who have *said interesting things about interaction design* or *run interaction design companies*. In that vein, I continue: Immediate predecessors and still-contemporaries I'm sure Dan merely overlooked: - Hugh Dubberly - Tim Berners-Lee - Jaron Lanier - Ted Nelson - Terry Winograd - Herbert Simon - Claude Shannon - Marvin Minsky - Sid Meier Some old school people who shaped our deepest thinking about interaction: - Alexander Graham Bell - Thomas Edison - Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace (it's interesting to observe that we often call truly great design "invention") Some bad modernist influences (I love these idealistic crazies, and they're widely emulated, but they're not good designers to emulate IMHO!) - Le Corbusier - Buckminster Fuller I also think that some of the most resonant interaction design concepts that many of us think of every day, perhaps subconsciously, were invented by creators of fictional worlds: - Gene Roddenberry - Stanley Kubrick - Philip K Dick - Neal Stephenson - William Gibson Cheers, -Cf Christopher Fahey ____________________________ Behavior biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com me: http://www.graphpaper.com ________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
