[IxDA Discuss] [Local IxDA] Announcing IxDA Hong Kong

[Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan]

Hello Adler!

Good luck with your IxDA initiatives in HK!


On 12/7/06, Daniel Szuc <dszuc at apogeehk.com> wrote:
> Welcome Adler & congratulations.
>
> Pleased to see all communities & disciplines coming together.
>
> Suggest the end game is getting business to understand the value of the
> process of involving users & strategic designers to develop products that
> delight users.
>
> Welcome organising more events in both HK and China to promote all UX
> disciplines. Perhaps an IxDA F2F in Shenzhen?
>
> Rgds,
>
> Daniel Szuc
> Principal Usability Consultant
> Apogee Usability Asia Ltd
> www.apogeehk.com
> 'Usability in Asia'
>
> The Usability Toolkit - http://www.sitepoint.com/books/usability1/
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of
> Pedro-Jorge Adler
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:00 AM
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> Subject: [IxDA Discuss] [Local IxDA] Announcing IxDA Hong Kong
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> This is a very exciting moment! Yesterday we had our kick off F2F meeting in
> Hong Kong in the roof top of the Fringe Club. There were people coming from
> Philips, Yahoo, HSBC, Apogee HK, Kaizor and Hong Kong Jockey Club, and also
> from the Poly University of HK. A good start, no?
>
> We had some drinks and a good discussion about IxD in HK, what we do and how
> complicated is to explain what we do to companies (see below other topics).
>
> Thanks to Daniel Szuc (HK UPA Chapter) and Nicole Schadewitz (IxD in Poly
> University) for helping to spread the word.
>
> Greetings,
> Adler
>
>
>
> Other topic include: (remember that the context here is HK not Europe or US)
>
> - Next F2F and other events
>
> - What does really Interaction Design mean? How different is it from other
> disciplines like Usability, User Experience, Information Architecture, ...?
> We, that are in the field, know the difference but the problem arises when
> we try to explain what we do to other people, companies and organisations.
>
> - One big community instead of many small groups ?!? All the
> communities/organisations above aim to design good products. Each discipline
> certainly deals with different aspects (behaviour, interaction, usability,
> experience, information, ...) and it makes sense to have these disciplines
> but the message to the outer world is difficult to pass and promote.
> Companies are confused about the differences of each discipline. (there are
> sometimes even "funny" job ads that mix titles, make up new titles or have
> descriptions completely different from the title).
>
> Companies want to have good products but they don't know which people to
> hire (IxD? Usability? UCD? HCI? UX? IA? ID?...). 98% of the companies in HK
> are small medium enterprises so they get really lost with so many
> "different" disciplines. We aren't making the life easy for our customer,
> i.e., companies interested in our services.
>
> Should we promote and have more co-shared local meetings instead of many
> small groups? What's the front end that companies see?
>
> They want better products but they get lost in this usable, user friendly,
> useful, ... world of disciplines!
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