On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Richard Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dave, since you've been fairly close to both orgs, could you give us > a comprehensive list of how they've worked together over the past > year or so? > Richard, from my perspective, the IAI and IxDA have spent the last year taking "baby steps" in an effort to establish productive, amicable relations. Some of the personal animosities that drove wedges between the orgs in the past have become bygones, and the current generation of leadership at both orgs have taken various steps to form personal and collaborative ties. The most concrete result of this so far is the fact that the IxDA was a sponsor of IDEA and the IAI was a sponsor of Interaction09. None of this consider this to be the zenith of cooperation, but instead a valuable first step. (I referred to it a while back as an example of "confidence-building measures.") We have also been comparing notes on a number of process-oriented things, such as organizational infrastructure problems and solutions. Being slightly younger, the IxDA is now beginning to encounter some of the issues that the IAI has been grappling with for a couple of years, and we have been more than happy to compare notes and pool learnings. Representatives of both groups attended the UXnet meeting at the Summit and I believe we are all interested in looking at ways that we can factor out some of the infrastructural underpinnings of groups like ours and the professional social networks they model and foster. There's no real good reason for us each to independently solve our membership, communication, and service-delivery problems in a vacuum without being able to profit from each other's efforts. (I was only partly joking when I suggested we put up a Github-type repository and build the 21st century professional org user experience together, perhaps benefiting the entire spectrum of orgs outside of our UX & design universes, and simultaneously demonstrating the value of our practices.) -x- ________________________________________________________________ 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
