On Mar 29, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Richard Dalton wrote:
I don't buy Dan's assertion that the IxDA list is mainly about IxDA - so I did a little analysis on the July messages (I picked July because it had a lot of messages - 196 in total), here is the breakdown: Job 53 Event 38 Interfaces 23 Other 11 Usability 8 Prototyping 7 Learning 6 Book 5 Process 5 Research 5 UX 5 IA 4 Design 3 New Product 3 Search 3 CMS 2 Errors 2 Form Design 2 Accessibility 1 Article 1 Documentation 1 Eye Tracking 1 Interviewing 1 Labels 1 Legal 1 Local 1 Org Charts 1 Persuasion 1 Roles 1 Of all of those categories the 23 out of 196 about Interface issue were the ones you could probably point to and say "they're mostly IxDA" - but even they're not exclusively about IxDA issues and they're only a small percentage of the traffic - much of which was probably also cross posted to the IAI list!
Why do you think only interface design is the only topic that is pure IxD? The only ones on this list that I would put in the NOT on topic are CMS, IA and UX, Search, Org Charts, and Persuasion. Nearly everything else I would say is at least related to, if not directly a part of, the field of interaction design. So only 16 out of 196 (8%) were off topic.
It would be interesting to do the same tally with a month of SIG-IA. Dan ________________________________________________________________ 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
