I see a wonderful opportunity for speakers from all disciplines to continue to speak at all conferences and talk to people about what it means to do IXD, Usability, User Research, Visual Design, IA, (fill in your own) and how it pertains to the umbrella and overall "User Experience"
This way for people who cannot only make it to 1 or 2 conferences a year can have a taste of what other elements go into the UX. So perhaps "Usability" tracks at IXD, "Design/IXD" tracks at UPA and so on and so forth. Or a few select presentations from each conference that was received well and fits in to another program well? Or respective Boards speaking more often? See that this is already happening and its a healthy thing. Also generates cross discipline discussion and collaboration. At the end of the day, in project land, we all need to work together anyway to make great products? Yes? So we should encourage this more in our professional associations? This certainly should not detract those who want to focus or zero in on a specific discipline or conference. rgds, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
