[IxDA Discuss] My View of Interaction Design

[Charles B. Kreitzberg]

Hi Everyone:

 

I've been an interaction designer for 30 years. It has been an interesting
experience to read all the posts on this discussion list about IxD and its
definitions. Some of the positions people take are interesting and mind
expanding while there are others that I disagree with.

 

I was recently involved in a discussion regarding the definition of UCD.
While that discussion did not converge as well as I had hoped, it did
inspire me to put down some of my thoughts about interaction design. I am
not attempting to create the definition of IxD - just to set forth my
definition. I would be most interested in your comments.

 

Because the document was rather long (about 5 pages and 2000 words) I
decided to put it into an external document rather than creating a huge
post.  If you are willing, please take a look at it
(http://www.cognetics.com/papers/IxD.pdf) and let me know what you think
might be added/changed/improved. If there is enough interest in this I will
produce a revised version with your input.

 

Best,

 

Charlie