The longer that thread gets, the crankier I get, so I'm starting a new one specifically to talk about Jesse James Garrett's talk at the IA Summit last weekend. It's what he wanted us to do, anyway.
Todd wrote > If you truly believe that, then I don't understand how you could have a > million problems with JJG's closing keynote. I'm still interested to know a > few. > JJG had me for the majority of his keynote, but a few points lost me: -) He alluded to some sort of war between the IA and IxD communities, and that interaction designers were eating IA's lunch. Is this really a zero-sum game? Talk like this only serves to drive our peeps further apart. I expected better from a respected thought leader and someone that's been around a while. -) Instead of defining User Experience Design as a term to umbrella our *practices*, he focused on umbrella-ing the *people*. A step backard if we're trying to get away from defining job titles! -) Even further, he proposed that UX is and always will be the only umbrella for what each of us does, when in fact there are other ways IA and IxD intersect with the rest of the design world; we're more than web, desktop, and mobile designers. It's what we do now, but there are so many non-computing problems coming down the pike that we'll be involved with that won't fit the UX mold. -) I LOVED the fact that he said that our practices will make the next leap when a someone creates a truly design-led company that "makes stuff," that kicks everyone's asses and leaves them playing catch up. By the way, that person will not wear ANY of our titles, which made his focus on the "User Experience Designer" title even more disappointing to me. But I have to reiterate that I LOVE the concept of a designer creating an entity that comes out of left field and challenges the way that people outside of our community think. Outside of our community, people! Thought I'd end on a positive note. It's Friday, after all ... - 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
