Interaction Design thoughts

(transcript from the IxD Studio’s whiteboard)

Interaction Design is …

• trying to make monkeys talk
• making companies sell more machines
• assuming that no-one, ever reads the fucking manual
• the sum of all fears
• chasing a unicorn you will never catch
• harnessing the power of water through fire
• a memory of a past that never was and a future that isn’t
• not interactive design
• the unfulfilling answer to the riddle that is you
• the crusty middle of an used band-aid
• the avalanche of predictable ideas that a hundred people thought of before you did
• multi-touching the untouchable/untouched
• sensorporn
• ubiqiqitus
• never playing with a donkey’s tail
• was created by Industrial designers who were not good at sketching
• is not being with your girlfriend for 4 months
• inventing characters such as J.Bacons
• a toxic mirage of hope
• talking like if…then…else…or…goto