[IxDA Discuss] What does it mean to be an interaction designer?

[Simon Asselbergs]

Hi All,

> > 1. How many books do you know about "What does it mean to be an  
> > interaction designer"?
> 
> Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann's About Face 2.0
> Designing from Both Sides of the Screen by Ellen Isaacs and Alan
> Walendowski
> 
> I'm sure Bill Moggridge's upcoming book "Designing Interactions" will
> address this as well.

Maybe I need to refine my explanation. 
I am not speaking about what an interaction designer is, but what it means to be an interaction designer inside an organisation, in practical terms. 
I do want to adress issues like:
* with who interaction designers can communicate (based on different approaches how organistions are structured, only roughly speaking), for example how Marketing and interaction design can benefit from eachother in practical terms, how visual designers can cooperate with interaction designers, and some references to discussions about empowered design. 

I sense that a lot of interaction designers from my organisation are working for media companies (mostly webbased solutions) and I get the idea there are still so many medium sized organisations which don't know what interaction design is and have no clear immediate thoughts how to integrate an interaction designer into their organisation. This situation seems at least to be the case in The Netherlands (I have not yet an idea how that is globally). I can imagine seasoned interaction designers are sometimes the first interaction designers to be the companies first, but apparently new fresh graduated interaction designers (like me) also see possibilities to prophetize interaction design to less typical companies which weren't aware of the existence of interaction design.

>From the point of view of these new interaction designers it might be interesting to have some guidelines about how to define interaction design in such a company. And from the point of view of these companies it might be interesting what issues should be adressed when contracting a interaction designer for the first time (management considerations about the integration in the organisational structure and some thoughts about managing innovation and client satisfaction). I am interested in how  people from this list would value such articles.

Simon




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