I recently put on a slide ... I was an Information Architect I was a UI Designer I was a User Experience Designer I am an Interaction Designer and I am soon to be a Designer
Titles in an area of practice like ours will always be fluid. Concentrating on titles at all, is barely productive. This organization was founded on the ugly discussion of "interaction architect vs. interaction designer" and Josh Seiden our previous President now 5.5 years ago steered us brilliantly away from this discussion at all and into the much more productive discussion of disciplines. Whether I'm a designer or user experience designer or an architect or a product designer or a software designer or a web designer ... blah blah blah ... Someone's practice today in this world ALWAYS consists of more than one discipline. I find this entire topic to be sad. I also find it short sighted and narrow. Luke, I don't mind your goals of your divisions and sorta agree with the definitions under the categories, but it is narrow and presumptuous in that it assumes that there is always information and that it is always visual and that it is always virtual. Many of us have been or are or will be dealing with interaction design outside of information or even visual spaces/solutions. While most of us lean towards web/software in this community, we are not so limited and we learn and enjoy practices outside that world. (Yes, I'm not even getting into research.) THEN! there is the false idol of UX. What the heck? Let's fess up and admit that UX is as jargonny as Web 2.0. It is marketing speak geared towards a segment of our world that needed it. For so much of Design it is just a given. It is hubris to think that There are no interaction designers, and that they are all UX Designer. Hell, I know quite a few who would rather be called Industrial Designers, or Product Designers. What I DO like about it is that, we need to make more of our practice about the results, mediums we work within as opposed to the disciplines and deliverables we create. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40553 ________________________________________________________________ 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
