[IxDA Discuss] My View of Interaction Design

[Christine Boese]

 Nice work, and thank you for sharing it.

I'm just on page 3, and have a quick question about the triangle on 2-3.
While I agree with those three constituencies, I'm wondering if you aren't
leaving out something pretty major, an omission on par with any of those
other constituencies leaving out interaction design.

Creative/Art Direction/Editorial may have a say in this matrix, no? Perhaps
you would put those folks in the Business side of the triangle. I know there
is a political struggle for control of any given interactive project, and
the triangle is seldom equilateral, but I'm not sure there are only 3 sides.

Aesthetic/Creative design has both art and editorial components, and the
people who do this work (see also Apple) are highly protective of their
turf, and often are outside professionals, quite apart from business
stakeholders. And while we feel IxD is essential (and I do believe that), I
also believe we could not do what we do (nor could developers) without a
larger aesthetic craft and transcendent artfulness as a higher goal.
Personally, I suspect that a world designed by user experience professionals
without Aesthetic/Creative concerns in the forefront would look a lot like
the aesthetics of the Soviet Union.

just my 2 cents,

Chris

On Feb 2, 2008 7:45 PM, Charles B. Kreitzberg <charlie at cognetics.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Best,
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> Charlie
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