[IxDA Discuss] Bill Moggridge talk at Ideo tonight

[David Malouf]

Hiya,

Christine, i didn't take chris' comment to be a siloing, but in fact the 
exact opposite. He was trying to break the siloing that the IA community 
has done by ignoring the broader design roots that pre-existed its creation.

It is rare in the UX community to really look deeper into its pre-Web 
past for a more solid grounding in design theory and UCD practice. This 
has been (my interpretation and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone) something 
that the IA community in particular has faced.

While most of us (according to a poll IxDA did about 18 months ago) work 
in web related areas, there has been quite a bit of revisionist history 
within the IA community specifically and the UX community more generally 
to think that it all begins and ends with our advent.

As someone who is soon to be moving away from the Web world and into the 
device world, we need to be cognizant that the Ideo's, Smart, Design 
Continuum's, Ziba's, and Frog's of the world are barely connected to the 
UX community as IDSA has no real connection to this world, but all of 
these organizations have been and continue to do vibrant and relevant UX 
work that has very little to do with the web but everything to do with 
good IxD.

Peter Merholz's recent organizing venture of the IDEA conference should 
be commended as an attempt by an IA leader to get the IA community to 
see beyond itself and gain insight into others who are working to solve 
information space (virtual or physical) problems.

What I hear from Chris is really just describing it how it is, was, and 
seems to be headed within the IA community and an appreciation of the 
longer roots within IxD as a discipline. I don't see silos there, just 
analysis.

-- dave

-- dave

cwodtke at eleganthack.com wrote:
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> I find that a depressing reminder of how silo'd we are despite having overlapping concerns. Why does everyone think they are the only owner of solutions? We're a profession not a religeon.
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> From:  "Christopher Fahey" <chris.fahey at behaviordesign.com>
> Subj:  Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bill Moggridge talk at Ideo tonight
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> To:  "'Gregory Petroff'" <greg.petroff at gmail.com>,"'ixda'" <discuss at ixda.org>
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> What I love about Bill Moggridge's new book is that there's not a single
> mention of anybody from the current 'IA scene'.
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> I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with the 'IA scene' -- it's just
> interesting to be reminded that the world of interaction design, like most
> other fields of study and practice, is disparate, diverse, and loosely
> connected. 
>
> -Cf
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> Christopher Fahey
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