Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, Christian. I'd ask you to reread that again, if you're so inclined, and tell me just where you see "world-weary superiority" or "posturing."
Because the piece doesn't come out of nowhere, right? I mean, I have no idea what you do for a living, but my work (both at my day job and on my own initiative) brings me into close contact with hundreds of junior interaction designers every year. And it seems overwhelmingly to be the case that their instructors have somehow neglected to introduce them to the sort of work I refer to in the post. And, at least by my lights, their output demonstrably suffers as a result. As for the "community," I've got a challenge for you: name me a piece of seriously good interaction design work produced in the last ten years that was the effort of someone who belongs to this organization or posts to this list. This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm sincerely willing to be convinced that organizations like this, and the discussions they support, nurture talent, help in the development of expertise, and generally raise the level of discourse and shipped work. I just haven't seen any evidence of it. So feel free to be as snide as you like in your characterization of what I write; I'm a big boy and I assure you it won't hurt me. But you might want to take a few minutes to consider why all the professional organizations and conferences and journals don't seem to be producing any net improvement in the quality of work. *That*'s my real challenge to this community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47932 ________________________________________________________________ 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
