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

[Niklas Wolkert]

Congratulations Jorge and the rest of you in HK.

Good luck to you and when you come back to Sweden next time, make sure
to do that on  the Third Thursday of the month ;)

--Niklas

On 12/7/06, 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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