IxD HCI UX
So it seems that right across the street from our interactive home, IxD
professor David Malouf has been poking for a while at something analogous to my topic of choice.
Hopefully I haven’t been on the wrong side of the street for the past year. IxD, Interaction (opposed to interactive) design has always been a term on the peripherary of my mind, as something grown out of industrial design (as digital design at DAAP original was) and on the other side of the product/communication divide from graphic design (toward which digital design at DAAP ended up), and with an even more tangendential relationship to game design (or game systems design, not to be confused with just ‘systems design‘). Oh, and of course it’s also separate from its scientific cousin HCI.
Undoubtedly these overlaps will need to be clarified a bit.
Oh, and I guess along with IxD’s cognitive ergonomics there could be emotional ergonomics… (Doesn’t graphic design handle both of these areas when it comes to print…?)
And let’s not forget the all encompassing UX.
Anyone else confused?
For more confusion I invite you to a few more areas of conversation.
First, my blog, http://davemalouf.com then the Interaction Design assoc. Web/list @ ixda.org
seriously though. The way I chop this up is that interactive is a medium discipline & interaction is a transmedium discipline. IxD only requires that there is intelligence but doesn’t care where the intelligence resides.
UX is a marketing yerm that is quite meaningless.
- dave
Ha, thanks for the clarification. I always felt that UX was a little nebulous at best.
Also, I was actually in the middle of writing about IxDA when you commented ;)
Hey,
Keep on your calendar Interaction 10 | Savannah. SCAD is hosting for the 2nd time (now the 3rd annual) IxDA global conference on interaction design. program coming out eminently @ http://interaction.ixda.org/ (spread the word across the tracks!)
–dave