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

[Joshua Seiden]

Congrats to all in HK. Wish I could have been there with you!

JS

On 12/6/06, Pedro-Jorge Adler <pedro.adler at acm.org> wrote:
>
> 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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