{"id":1365,"date":"2009-05-07T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/07\/links-for-2009-05-07\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:01:21","slug":"links-for-2009-05-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/07\/links-for-2009-05-07\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-05-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\"><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooper.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/is_ixd_a_dead_end_job.html\">Cooper Journal: Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">I disagree with the idea that the only way forward for interaction design as a field is to focus on high-level, strategic work. It seems Cooper, and other American interaction design consultancies like them, are finding strategy work more lucrative than actual design, but feel a little guilty for abandoning the craft they originate from. There is a real need for interaction design on a tactical level (call it craft, praxis or whatever) and it is not something to be left to technologists, marketing folk or industrial designers.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/interactiondesign\">interactiondesign<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/strategy\">strategy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/tactics\">tactics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/craft\">craft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/skill\">skill<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/praxis\">praxis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/cooper\">cooper<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/IxD\">IxD<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/schulzeandwebb.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/here-there-influences\/\">Pulse Laser: Here &amp; There influences<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">Jack talks about sources of inspiration for his Here &amp; There map. As always I am blown away by the depth and breadth of stuff S&amp;W draw on for their projects.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/maps\">maps<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/projections\">projections<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/superpowers\">superpowers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/JackSchulze\">JackSchulze<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/visualizations\">visualizations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/design\">design<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/tq\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13174355\">Alternate reality games | Serious fun | The Economist<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">The Economist covers ARGs. Good news for those hoping to make money in the field, I guess. I was happy to see them make the point that the most interesting current examples are not so much ARGs, but do fit into a &#8220;growing trend of using playful cross-media technologies to get people thinking&#8221;.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/foresight\">foresight<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/futures\">futures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/ARGs\">ARGs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/play\">play<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/alternaterealitygames\">alternaterealitygames<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/seriousgames\">seriousgames<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/gamedesign\">gamedesign<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Journal: Is Interaction Design a dead-end job? I disagree with the idea that the only way forward for interaction design as a field is to focus on high-level, strategic work. It seems Cooper, and other American interaction design consultancies like them, are finding strategy work more lucrative than actual design, but feel a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/07\/links-for-2009-05-07\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-05-07<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}