{"id":312,"date":"2007-03-12T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/killing-me-softly\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T18:33:20","slug":"killing-me-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/killing-me-softly\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing me softly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I want to make my readers believe that I&#8217;m having a bad day, the sun is shining, the tulips and tank tops are out&#8230; but general <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/009389.php\">statements<\/a> that influence the way my field is perceived on the market tend to make me react very strongly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunneandraby.co.uk\/\">Tony Dunne<\/a> didn&#8217;t necessarily intend it to sound that way but claiming that &#8220;The name interaction design is beginning to mean something quite specialised and focused on designing interfaces for electronic and digital products and systems. This is probably a very good thing if you are trying to establish a discipline or a group within a company, but it\u2019s not so good if you are interested in pushing boundaries and exploring new ways designers can make technology relevant and meaningful to everyday life.&#8221; is a convenient way to ignore the past educational institutions or the legacies of the former RCA teachers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luckybite.com\/\">Durrell Bishop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that from the beginning of this very young industry, interaction design has ALWAYS been considered associated very closely to HCI and interface design for on-screen applications because the field itself was born out of those particular departments be it on an industry or an academic level. Since the advent of schools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.umu.se\/default.asp?sida=93\">Umea<\/a>, the RCA&#8217;s program for the past 10 years,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milano.interaction-ivrea.it\">IDII<\/a> and now also a number of other european endeavors, this change has already been made on an academic level, unfortunately and this is something that I encounter working as a freelance, that change has not been operating at an industry level yet. And I hardly believe that changing the name of a program will help that change along, I think it just might confuse people more. Imagine this conversation:<\/p>\n<p>A. So what do you do?<br \/>\nB. I design interactions.<br \/>\nA. Oh you&#8217;re an interaction designer?<br \/>\nB. Uh, well not quite, I design interactions, it&#8217;s different&#8230;<br \/>\nA. How so?<br \/>\nB. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It will still be as difficult for people like me to answer the dreaded question (what do you do) as for future students of the RCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I want to make my readers believe that I&#8217;m having a bad day, the sun is shining, the tulips and tank tops are out&#8230; but general statements that influence the way my field is perceived on the market tend to make me react very strongly&#8230; I&#8217;m sure Tony Dunne didn&#8217;t necessarily intend it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/killing-me-softly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Killing me softly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interaction-design","category-rants","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}