hmm? if all you are looking for is common ground, that is obviously there. The research methods that IAs and IxDs and hell all designer researchers employ is probably our nexus of overlap. It is the UCD that we share. But what do you want to do with that common ground? what is your goal?
1 big conference under a single brand? some call that CHI. As research as its primary focus with a growing design community/track, one might see it as that place. Yes, it has the nasty stamp of ACM bureaucracy all over it, but it does seem to be THE conference for UX around software in the world each year. Smaller examples that are more practitioner focused and are currently smaller but don't have to stay that way are UX London and UX Australia. If you are looking to reduce the # of conferences so that the friends who choose to go to one aren't missed by the friends who go to the other. I think you are barking up the wrong tree. But that is just my opinion. I will always want a conference focused on IxD for the reasons that Dan outlined. And I will probably never go to the IA Summit again. This is just me speaking personally, but Ix## is my home, not just b/c I helped build it but b/c I was urged to build it by a group of peers whom I admire, respect, gain inspiration from, and learn a ton from and get to teach. I will go to other conferences when invited to speak, when it is clear that I can offer something there, or to conferences where I feel I can learn specific things: IDSA for example, that are relevant to my new work. For others the IA Summit will always be home. I can't image on IAS with Lou or Christina, e.g. I can't believe that Thomas Vander Wal didn't go this year either. (People move on, I guess.) Anyway, the common ground is undeniable and I don't think anyone can argue that there isn't any. The point is what do you want to do with it? Gunther wants to use the common ground as a marketing program, so it seems. Not all that useful to me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
