On Mar 27, 2009, at 4:13 PM, J. Ambrose Little wrote:
This is an honest question. What are some of the non-software
things that
you all see interaction designers doing? Of those, how many are not
currently being done by others with already-defined and different
titles
(e.g., industrial designers)? I'm looking for specifics situations
where
what you think of as interaction design is being done that is not
related to
software.
Clearly the bulk of the work in our field currently is desktop and web
applications. But there is also a lot of work in consumer electronics
and mobile as well. Not to mention growing fields such as robotics,
ubicomp, and tangible/embedded computing. Every year, the line between
software and hardware gets blurrier, and as objects and spaces begin
to exhibit digital behavior, interaction designers are definitely
moving into those "products" which were previously only the realm of
industrial designers, architects, city planners, etc. I guarantee it
wasn't only industrial designers working on the iPhone or MS Surface
or BodyMedia's wearables, etc. etc.
Dan
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