Adam's challenge: Jef Raskin - MacOS/rchi Aza Raskin - Enso, Ubiquity
I know, they they will have to deny it for Apple policy reasons that there are Apple members of the iPhoneOS on this list. R/GA - Nike ID Cooper - Visual Basic Evans - Kayak Andre H. - CS Suite Adobe But even b4 I started this list. What about all the great IxD going on at levels we don't consider. Enterprise work that I've done recently at Motorola EMb. You would never care about. Then I thought, OMG what a waste, b/c even all the stuff I wrote up there could all be squashed as "software", well except for Nike ID and deemed not good IxD (for some reason or another) by you. The truth is quite honestly there has never been an Frank Lloyd Wright of IxD. We haven't had our Gearhy. We haven't even had our Dietr Rams. The reason is that the points of critique are constantly in flux. Even by other discipline's standards. But whether they are in the community or outside the community is well meaningless compared to what value the community holds for meaning for each other. Adam, You made 2 points in your piece that I got: 1. that everyone should be reaching outside of their direct medium for knowledge. Who in their right mind would ever argue that? Of course, you posited this against an "observation" which I would call incomplete data at best that most in this community don't do. Or that the community itself doesn't do. That is rubbish to the nth degree. 2. that IxD has existed for time and memorial and looking for a point Zero at the advent of the GUI is a mistake. While, I agree that the advent of technology required the focus on that technology's effect on how we think about design is core to IxD, I don't think there is a point zero ever discussed by anyone in any literature I've read in the IxD community. We venerate Engelbart, Verplank, Moggridge, etc. But we also see them in wider contexts. I can't imagine any IxD worth their salt not knowing the multi-disciplinary and contextual history of their discipline. And, excuse me. "it's just a blog". AND this is just a bunch of people also talking in a public forum. And I think we all know that you are not "just a blog writer" and I doubt you would ever want to be considered as such. You've earned enough respect through your thought leadership that you cannot hide under such anonymity of "just a blog". -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
