On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Peter Merholz wrote:
What has been reasonably suggested, I think, is that there is a
continuum of products: some of them require more IA than others,
some require more IxD than others. In the same way some projects
require more visual design than others. Your objection seems to be
that I dared say that the products that require more IA are mostly
web-based.
If I were to reduce interaction design to interface design, we would
never hear the end of it.
Reduce? That's funny considering that all of this time, interface
design has always required a broader collection of visual, interaction
and information skills to do effectively.
All this discussion is seemingly exposing is that the various camps of
people who don't want to be cross-disciplinary need to have their own
worlds to inhabit, which is fine. But for the last 10 to 20 years,
what has been lacking is a digital product design organization that is
the functional equivalent to industrial design organizations that
encompasses people who ONLY care about digital as it relates to code
and software but who need practical skills as broad as what ID folks
are expected to do on the job or learn in school. People who need to
have a broad range of skills that Jared listed out and that I have
been beating to death for far too long.
UXNet is not enough in that people who call themselves "user
experience designers" generally are thinly disguised IA or IxD types.
That and "user experience" has always been a horrid label for reasons
listed far too many times to repeat now. However, if UXNet wants to
open the doors to encompass the skills of the visual and graphic
designer types to be included in the job description and not be
something orthogonal, the skillls of designers found at places like
SXSW, then we might finally be on track to having something that
serves digital product designer needs and its growing field of practice.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
e. [email protected]
c. +1 408 306 6422
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