After years as a UI designer, IA and IxD practitioner, I've begun to change my focus by doing an MA in Learning and Technology. I work in post-sec now and like the notion of applying design to deeper cognitive things than just selling stuff.
Anyway, good learning is about primarily three things, human, system and content. The permutations between those things can take on many different properties. I can apply these directly to UI design by thinking about, not only how a user interacts with the system through the interface, but how they interact with the content, how content in two systems interacts with each other (think Ajax/XML/feeds/APIs/etc) and how all of it allows human being to interact with each other. Learning is directly impacted by the quality of all these interactions, but I'd argue that most of life, online or not, is also impacted by the quality of all interactions. So, with regard to design, more than just HCI is required to make complex things simple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40209 ________________________________________________________________ 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
