keypad layout General button controls port configurations or back panels Eco-system integration Power management communications Voice communication systems Scripts for service agents Near-field systems Barcode applications
It isn't whether or not it is non-software, but whether or not the software is visible, or otherwise made manifest (audio) to the user. Let's not even get into ambient systems where presence awareness is in play. To me asking whether software is involved is missing the target. There isn't an old medium of fine art or design that is not effected by silicon or similar intelligence holding systems. What is important is that designing for each brings with it unique issues. We understand that there is a level of distinction between web, desktop and mobile. These distinctions get even deeper when you leave the realm of "platforms" (unchanging form factors like the above) and begin to enter form factor creation. My work at Motorola paired IDs and IxDs for this very reason. My expertise in dialog creation was instrumental in many form factor decisions just like it would be between an IxD and a visual designer of a web site. My students last quarter in my interaction design studio designed watches, surface tables, digital drafting tables, and wearable computers, who's designs were conceived through the use of interaction design methods and processes. I suggest anyone even more curious with this should look deeper into 2 portfolios. The IxD schools of europe AND the work of Antenna Design. Their design of entire subway cars is a great example of this. A team of students here at SCAD are designing heavy equipment using IxD methods and processes. Again, it isn't about the title, but about the discipline. So yes, some may be "industrial designers", but if they are designing behavior and for behavior, they will be incorporating IxD as a discipline into their work. -- dave -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40619 ________________________________________________________________ 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
