state of interaction design 2008
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation I gave w/ support from Ted Booth & Jennifer Bove. It is meant to convey my interpretation of a moment. The slides don't stand by themself really well, so there is this video here: http://vimeo.com/4082183TRANSCRIPT
Where is Interaction Design (2008)?
Where is it going?
David Malouf (IxDA, Motorola, SCAD)
Jennifer Bove (HUGE)
Ted Booth (Smart Design)
More of us than ever
http://ixda.org/local.php
40 years ago
Changes in our work
How we connect
We know!
Bringing the DESIGN back
Science Art
The lab & The data
Beauty for beauty's sake
Can't we all just get a long?
Salvador is a
2008: Year of the SKETCH
The Designer's Path
Bill Buxton's Sketching UX
Communicating our ideas
Making ideas into things
Creating narratives
There is an aesthetic to interaction
Huh?!?
What about our practice?
1998: Would you like some tabs with your web site?
2008: Can you make my Enterprise portal feel like an iPhone?
The other 2008: My dentist directory needs a social network.
Services = 75% of the economy
Eco-systems - products & products & more products!
Eco-system - products -> services ->marketing?
image or diagram?
product + service + packaging
webless web services - distribution of data
image of mulitple twitter inputs/dopplr inputs
taking control with gestures
The call for UX agility
Prototyping
So many tools
Software
Even hardware
Know your materials
interactivity is key
Where is our "appearance model"
Production quality?
Richness & Openness
Interaction Density
Giving personality to product
Free Data
Anything can happen
http://wefeelfine.org/
Clear identity
Its about ME!
And everyone I know
And everyone THEY know
Where am I?
If we can know it, it should be used ... NOW!
How did we learn this stuff?
We all got here somehow, right?
Is it something codify-able?
Was it complete?
Can you explain it to your boss?
Do you know how to hire it?
It's a design school thing!
Design Thinking
Craft
Studio
$$$
alternatives
Can't forget this!!!
http://interaction09.ixda.org/
Schools have to create practitioners
Defining the damn thing!!!
A grand eco system
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/the-disciplines-of-user-experience/
Where most of us do many of the pieces
Where people take their work very personally
Where almost no one took the same path
Customer confusion
No clear connections to others
Lack of depth of theory
Constantly re-inventing the wheels
Behavior
Medium agnostic
GRAPHICAL
3-DIMENSIONAL
SPATIALPRODUCT
SERVICE
ECO-SYSTEM
WEB/DESKTOP
MOBILE
EMBEDDED
Design-centered
Digital?
Product only?
"Improve human condition"??
Discreet but a piece
Practice is about wholes
Or maybe this whole
THE ENDDavid Maloufhttp://synapticburn.com/http://twitter.com/daveixd/http://flickr.com/photos/davidheller/
Jennifer Bovehttp://[email protected]
Ted Boothhttp://[email protected]
http://tinyurl.com/whereisixd