Trying to keep this shooooort! I had a million problems with JJG's talk, but I'm in a hurry and you asked for viewpoints, not diatribes. To Jeremy's point (woot), User Experience is waay generic. It's also a professional umbrella that works for the here and now. Further, it is severely limiting to both IA and IxD to say that UX Design is the only field to which these practices can and will ever be applied. Our work today primarily lives in a traditional computing world, and hence the two practices (as well as a bajillion others) go hand-in-hand. But once we start looking at the things each practice can do under other umbrellas, in other spaces, you start to see a divergence. Not in the people, mind you, but in the work.
Examples later, but I have to bang out a prototype. I will leave you with similar practices that struggle with external perception: Chemical Engineers vs. Chemists Psychologists vs. Psychotherapists Graphic Designers vs. Graphic Artists Pickup Artists (read 'The Game' and you will see a very eerie parallel to our community! Perception, how you learn, petty(!!) politics, etc.) 11am deadline go-go-go! - Nasir ________________________________________________________________ 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
