@dru said: "The "groupieness" will not necessarily be interacting with a fellow "IxD-er" as I think you both are actually talking about, but it will mean participation in a group."
In my work with a government contractor, I find this is always the case. I'm often the only IxD, often the only one with any design background, but am told to work with a group of 3-5 coworkers. I had to learn how to work in groups through job experience, but what I've learned it's not really like any academic exercise. Especially as the only IxD, I more often find myself in a work group that becomes a tutorial on design and how one evaluates good or bad design, while making sure the "students" feel that they are on the same page as I am (or higher, i.e., when I'm asked to collaborate with a higher level manager). My education didn't include many group projects, and when they did the more experienced professors gave a group grade for the group projects - you're either teaching the students how to collaborate, and that's the lesson, or you're giving more work than one student could complete, and teaching them about work velocity (but that reinforces that getting credit for work done still comes down to one person taking credit for any task). I think it's a good experience either way, but it's important to be sure what lesson you're trying to teach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47452 ________________________________________________________________ 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
