Why can't we have our cake *and* eat it? There are benefits from having foci on the individual aspects of UX (IA, IxDA, ID, etc) - those benefits are mainly realized very internally to the practitioners - specific mailing lists, conferences, etc. We have this now with IAI and IxDA.
There are also benefits from having a shared connection, an umbrella term, even an umbrella organization (however the connection manifests itself) - those benefits are mainly realized externally - clearer understanding by stakeholders, and people wanting to enter the field, better focus on the actual end experience rather than on pieces of it, better understanding of the connections and collaboration opportunities between practitioners with different backgrounds, acceptance that you can rarely, if ever, *just* do IA, or IxDA, without doing some of the other, etc. This is NOT being realized now. Without some shared concept (UX) we're not going to gain these second benefits, but I don't think anyone is suggesting we do something that loses the first ones. - Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
