Well, of course you are right. Unfortunately, the reality for most of us is that the technology is created and it is our job to do our best to make it "not suck". Very very very (way too) few of us begin our work truly with open ended discovery of needs/motivations. We almost always start with something existing.
A great example to the contrary is the work that Robert Fabricant presented at last year's Interaction09 conference. where no new technologies were used, but instead existing technologies were brought to bear with new communications/messaging to creae new services. (video available at http://library.ixda.org/). And it is where service and interaction meet that the repurposing of existing technologies instead of the invention of new ones probably has the greatest design opportunities. Yes, this all proves that the examples are too few. But one could easily say now that the web is such a ubiquitous part of industrialized life that no matter what we add there (or more generally to the Internet) is not an invention of technology but just the use of a tremendous broad utility much as Robert's example of using SMS demonstrated. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47301 ________________________________________________________________ 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
