meeting notes 20071016

My Goodness my Guinness!

Focus - we talk about this a lot. We are getting together to talk about interaction design, not just interaction design for web. Currently the web is our common ground. While we don't want our group to grow out of control, we are interested in becoming more diverse. In these early meeting it is very important to clearly establish some goals for the group.

Exercises

• Something to consider: Home Depot kitchen triangle for cooking design
  
• Blog Studies:
• What is a blog
• a place to review products and services
• a scrapbook of ideas
• What is a good structure for Blogs
• pages?
• sort by date
• tags
• What is a blog really
  
• information stored in a database that is queried and displayed
  
• Phixda logo:
• automagically
• What are the rules:
• and how can we break them

Discussion: what is interaction design and how does it compare to other design disciplines? We went around the table and asked everyone this question. Bryan quoted boxes and arrows

In the end, interaction design is the choreography and orchestration of these form-based design disciplines to create that holistic narrative between human(s) and the products and systems around us.

we agreed that ixd is more than instructional design. we agreed that it is more than visual design. We considered how ixd has something to do with being able to change something in a predetermined and non-destructive way. We never really settled on a definition, but we did make several insightful observations: paintings have conversations with viewers, led zeppelin 3 has a wheel that spins, interaction design has something to do with feedback, and as we get deeper into the conversation we realize we sound more and more like "The Matrix"