[IxDA Discuss] Mac Air - What part is the IxD?

[Nasir Barday]

There's the craft, and the person who practices it as their primary focus.

Check out the definition at http://ixda.org/about_interaction.php
It says an Interaction Designer's "primary focus is on defining
interactivity."

If a Visual or Industrial Designer happens to define the IxD for a product,
they don't become Interaction Designers, because their primary focus is on
visual aesthetics and form. However, whenever someone defines the
interactivity of a product, they are practicing Interaction Design. For
example, if you as an Interaction Designer end up defining the color
pallette for a product, you are practicing Graphic Design, but you are still
an Interaction Designer.

Any designer tasked with creating a successful product will inevitably find
themselves doing a little of the others' work, or at least taking their
sensibilities into account. It's part of working collaboratively. But at the
end of the day, a designer is defined by his/her primary focus.

Make sense? Or is that even more confusing?

- Nasir