Don't miss this special IxDA NYC Monthly Gathering on February 14!
Come share your passion for interaction design!
Marc Rettig Presents “Interaction Design is Language Design”
In this seminar Marc Rettig will explore the idea that when people use an interface, they are engaging in an act of language use. Designing an interface, therefore, amounts to designing a new language. Designers associate symbols with meanings. They create ways for people to use symbols in sequence to express complicated meanings. But what meanings? What symbols? What sequences? Can we do better than seat-of-the-pants answers to those questions? The notion of a "design language" has been with us for years, but if we take the idea seriously, perhaps ideas and frameworks from linguistics can help us design *better* interfaces. The goal of topic is to create a grounded practice using the explored
principles. The seminar is not meant to be a completed theory, but a work in progress that participants get to explore with Marc during
the seminar and after on their own work.
Event Details
When: Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where:
Parsons Design Lab
55 W. 13th St. on the 9th Floor
(map info: http://tinyurl.com/b26u2 )
Getting There:
F, V, L at 14th & 6th Ave.
N, Q, R, W, 4, 5,6, or L at 14th & Broadway
Cost
$25 in advance; $40 @ the door (if space is available)
(A rare IxDA event to help cover speaker travel costs)
RSVP
Please, RSVP to nyc (at) ixda (dot) org with your name and email address.
NOTE: We only have about 40 spaces available for this event, so to secure your space. We will send you a confirmation email containing information on how to pay your registration fee. Your space is not guaranteed until you have paid. If you are bringing guests, please send us each guests’ name and email address so that we can email them as well.
ABOUT MARC RETTIG
Marc Rettig is a founding principal of Fit Associates (www.fitassociates.com). After a twelve-year career as a software developer, Marc is now thirteen years into a second career as a designer, educator, and researcher. As someone committed to shipping "design that fits people's lives," Marc's work is to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts to translate customer research into good design and strategy. His clients include Whirlpool, BBC, the U.S. Army, Crate and Barrel, and Microsoft. He has taught both lecture and studio courses at Carnegie Mellon's Graduate School of Design (where he was the 2003 Nierenberg Distinguished Chair of Design) and the Institute of Design, IIT, in Chicago.
Marc has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Linguistics, and completed requirements for a Master's in Computational Linguistics at New York University. Marc frequently speaks and conducts hands-on workshops in industry and academic settings around the world. He serves on the advisory boards of the Interaction Design Association, UXNet, and Rosenfeld Media.
ABOUT IxDA
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a non-profit professional organization whose focus is promoting both the field of interaction design and the interests of an international community of practitioners, managers, educators, and students of interaction design. Our organization’s goals are to:
- Communicate the unique perspective that interaction design brings to both industry and the broader design community
- Promote awareness of the discipline, craft, and value of interaction design among business leaders, academia, consumers, and our colleagues
- Advance the discipline of interaction design by encouraging the adoption of innovative methods
- Encourage and recommend high standards of practice among interaction design professionals
- Help establish standards for academic programs in interaction design
- Develop an active, close-knit community of interaction design professionals worldwide
For more information about IxDA, or if you are interested in getting involved, contact us at nyc (at) ixda (dot) org or visit our web site at http://www.ixda.org.