[IxDA Discuss] Bill Moggridge talk at Ideo tonight (Bill DeRouchey)

[James Leftwich, IDSA]

"Only recently"?!

As a design consultant that's combined industrial design with  
interface/interaction/experience/system design since 1983, I can only  
boggle at such a claim.

I mean, even with ZIBA, Bill, its founder Sohrab Voussoughi visited  
me at my office in the early 1990s to discuss interaction design and  
the importance of whole product design.  And my work in collaboration  
with Lunar Design went back years prior to that.  Industrial Design  
was embracing the idea of interaction design way before the web came  
along, and in *multiple places.*

There's a *lot* of interaction design history that's not been  
acknowledged or recognized, despite the big organizations currently  
discussing their versions of the discipline's history.

Jim

James Leftwich, IDSA
Orbit Interaction
Palo Alto, California  94301
USA
http://www.orbitnet.com



On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:10 PM, discuss- 
request at lists.interactiondesigners.com wrote:

> As someone from ZIBA, I feel like I should chime in here. I can't  
> speak for the other fine companies, but it's true, ZIBA as a whole  
> isn't formally tied to the UX community. Until just a handful of  
> years ago, the UX community was mostly concerned with the onscreen  
> world and the product design companies with the offscreen world.  
> But only recently have these two worlds begun to overlap.  
> Recognizing this overlap, they've been gracious to send me to the  
> last two IA Summits and I'll be there again next year. This time, I  
> will hopefully be co-running a workshop, representing a ZIBA angle  
> on experience architecture.