[IxDA Discuss] Bill Moggridge talk at Ideo tonight

[Christina Wodtke]

Rereading this sentence, I realized that I hadn't made my point clear, 
and that I would catch it for doing so (me and john kerry, 
misunderstood! ;-)

99% of what is said on IA lists is stuff interaction design has already 
figured it.  and 99% of what is said on both lists is what web designers 
have figured it. That's the fault of lists, not the professions... and 
it's okay. Lists tend to recycle information, and people new to the 
profession, either by being in another profession or just getting out of 
college, need to ask the questions, and the old folks need to discuss 
and refine the answers.

If i had read inmates instead of the polar book in 1998, I would have 
called myself an interaction designer and maybe made a few different 
friends, but actually done almost nothing different in my job.  A job is 
not equal to a profession. Informations architecture has many things to 
teach IxD, and IxD has many things to teach IA. But guess what, so does 
information design, product design, cognitive psychology.... and all of 
these fields are moving forward at a rapid pace.

You can't tell me you haven't been at a conference listing to a talking 
head thinking, "That ossified old fart, they haven't learned a darn 
thing since 2001." The past can teach us, but the present is teaching us 
also.  And IA and IxD are more alike than ever before because of the 
blend of information spaces in which you can interact, refining, 
recreating, remixing that information. Neither can afford to ignore the 
other.


Dan Saffer wrote:
> [Please voluntarily trim replies to include only relevant quoted material.]
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> On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:30 AM, Christina Wodtke wrote:
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>   
>> As a former IA on this list, I can tell you 99% of what is discussed
>> here is what we've already figured out in IA, and one could make a
>> pretty good argument that Interaction Design has nothing to offer IA
>> based on that.
>>     
>
> This reminds me of my favorite Lou Rosenfeld quote:
>
> "...we often see interaction design and IA compared. Let’s  
> acknowledge once and for all that information architecture is the  
> more difficult of the two. Interaction design addresses a finite  
> realm of problems. Huge, but finite..."
>
> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ 
> the_indie_life_talking_with_louis_rosenfeld
>
> Apparently denigrating professions works both ways. :)
>
> (This is from 2002 and his reasoning is so very Web-centric. I wonder  
> if Lou still believes this?)
>
>
> Dan
>
>
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