IxDA Interaction 18 - Evolving interaction design practice

I had the chance to attend Interaction Week 18 and spend a week in beautiful Lyon. The conference is organized by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

This year the central theme was about "how technology and design are shaping the world moving forward by building bridges across cultures, disciplines, and industries to reach shared goals.”

Inspired by the community, talks, and the people I created this lecture as my reflection on the event as an inspiration, guidance and key takeaways for thinking beyond technology and building a better future for all of us.

Transcript

1. Dissolving boundaries.
 Building connections. 3—8 February 2018 ∙Lyon, France
2. IxDA IxDA is a worldwide member-supported organization with over 10 years of history, 173 local groups and 80,000 members. Contextual Relevance Each year the conference lives in a different city, with a different culture and a different organization team.
3. How technology and design are shaping the world moving forward by building bridges across cultures, disciplines, and industries to reach shared goals.
5. !5 Lyon
6. The Local Leaders Retreat is a full-day meeting to talk about the future of the IxDA and all the local chapters Photo by http://juanmadrigal.co/
7. The Opening Party was held at the Musée des Confluences Photo by http://juanmadrigal.co/
8. Meeting old friends and making new friends Photo by http://juanmadrigal.co/ Tin Ben
9. La Sucrière The main venue is an old and beautiful sugar warehouse used for exhibits, concerts and other events.
10. Selected Talks
11. The Oppenheimer Moment Everyone knows that technology products should not be evil. The problem is that few people know how to make that happen. Alan Cooper is addressing this challenge the same way he tackled interaction design a quarter of a century ago. In this provocative talk he will present the results of his most recent ground- breaking work. ALAN COOPER https://vimeo.com/254533098
13. “The Future is in the hands from the hands-on”
14. Cultural bias in design(ers): Can being African make you bad at design? The talk has 2 main focus areas: * What is cultural bias is and why are people from certain parts of the world more likely to have certain biases. I’ll share stories of real teams and individuals affected by cultural bias. FARAI MADZIMA https://vimeo.com/255015805 * Practical tips for anticipating, identifying and adapting to cultural bias in the way we work. From hiring to induction, critique, research, presentation and more. I’ll look at ways to work better with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. This, so that they can be their best selves and help us make inclusive product experiences.
15. “If you think that diversity of thought is about different shades of brown or gender, then you’re not paying attention. You were not paying attention to what the wold needs from our industry. You’re not paying attention to what your colleagues need from you,”
17. Make things unknown Instead of giving large amounts of information, offering an empty vessel to act as a receptacle for creativity has the potential to make the recipient’s inspiration well up, achieving communication without an exchange of words. Likewise, rather than making things known, making people aware of how little they know can inspire greater interest and awaken an active desire to know. Here, I would like to describe the approach to communication taken by MUJI, and a project I have conducted together with my students at Musashino Art University, using them to talk about my own approach to design and design methodology. KENYA HARA https://vimeo.com/254682347
18. Emptiness Ex-formation
20. “Emptiness is a possibility to be filled.”
21. Design to Ignite — Design sprints for transformation at scale In a world where everyone and everything is connected, the quality of interactions matter more than ever. They can shape or stifle emerging communities, erase or reinforce boundaries, build or destroy relationships. The practice of Interaction Design, currently over-committed to the interaction between humans and screens, is as well-suited to other interactions which drive large-scale dynamic systems – people to people, people to organizations, organizations to systems just to name a few. TOMOMI SASAKI & MILAN GUENTHER https://vimeo.com/254899142
22. Engagement Sprint to onboard people and drive collaboration Strategy Sprint to align and devise a direction Experimentation Sprint to generate and validate new solutions Realization Sprint to develop a shared roadmap
23. The MasSive future of transport Our cities are facing a crisis. Merely a century ago, our streets were dominated by horses. The arrival of the automobile rapidly changed the way we moved, lived, and interacted. The car brought freedom of mobility to the masses, but it also impacted our urban environments in many unexpected ways. Private cars are amongst the most underused assets in the world. An average car sits unused 94% of the day, often occupying precious urban land. It is perhaps time to question why our cities aren’t necessarily designed to serve human needs first. APAAR TULI https://vimeo.com/254892928
24. Discussed the challenges of applying design processes to transportation, and explores what role user-centered design will play in enabling the shift towards people-centric transportation and human-centric cities.
25. More than human- centred design Is our modern belief in progress a false religion? The promise of relentless growth appears to move us forward, but at what cost? At a time when anxiety is fuelled by the loss of jobs, automation, fake news, lack of trust, climate change, extreme weather events, political upheaval and conflict - what meaningful role can designers play? The problems are far bigger and more complex than those we have been trained to “solve”. ANAB JAIN https://vimeo.com/254892928
26. “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
27. All people deserve to live in a well-designed world. — The Montreal Design Declaration On 24 October 2017, representatives of the international community of designers, architects, planners and landscape architects signed the Montreal Design Declaration. The Declaration proclaims the potential of design to achieve global economic, social, environmental and cultural objectives and includes a dramatic call to action to professionals, educators and governments as well as a list of proposed projects. The Declaration, signed in the presence UN agencies, lists over 600 professional associations, design schools and stakeholders. http://montrealdesigndeclaration.org/
28. › Design is a driver of innovation and competition, growth and 
 development, efficiency and prosperity › Design is an agent for sustainable solutions created for people and 
 supporting the planet on which we rely › Design expresses culture › Design adds value to technology › Design facilitates change › Design introduces intelligence to cities as a foundation for better 
 communications, improved environments, enhanced quality of life and 
 more prosperous local communities › Design addresses resilience and manages risk › Design fosters development of SMEs in general and the creative 
 industries in particular THE DECLARATION IS BUILT AROUND EIGHT STATEMENTS
29. Key Takeaways
30. Be responsible as a designer.
31. Be inclusive.
32. Trust the process and have the courage to fail.
33. Design the system so it doesn’t design you.
34. Design Thinking Design Doing
35. Designers Des[ai]ners
36. I design how it looks We design how it works Design makes it good
37. The world is not a machine and we’re not a machine.We’re a hot mess of complexity, emotions and all of the other things, but we have the capacity to speak, to learn, to concept and to collaborate. Leyla Acaroglu
38. https://airtable.com/shrADWFh9muXZoBqQ/tblVintEB6sF0QhP2 https://interaction18.ixda.org/ Resources Good reads https://medium.com/aq-writes/evolving-our-practice-of-interaction-design-ideas-from-interaction-18-dee40542ddfe https://motley.fi/must-reads/interaction18 https://blog.nordkapp.fi/explore-the-future-craft-the-details-my-summary-from-interaction-18-1e388433fd6c https://uxdesign.cc/interaction-week-18-journal-cc4a4bfd7cac https://blog.usejournal.com/my-favourite-systems-related-talks-from-interaction-18-4a0b6a2e9cbc?gi=a8a02f570060
39. See you in Seattle next year! vladimir@koncar.info @koncarovski Vladimir Končar