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Mathieu Turpault

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The difference between industrial designers (IDers) and interaction designers (IxDers) may not be as vast as the differences between men (from Mars, allegedly!) and women (Venus, didn’t you know?). IDers and IxDers are from the same planet, but we have grown up in our careers surrounded and influenced by different norms. And, like men and women, we need to work together. In some respects (unlike men and women), you could even argue we are becoming one.

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As technology becomes more sophisticated and more affordable, product experiences are shifting from simple, physical interactions into more complex digital and data-driven ones. The emphasis on ID continues to transition from form toward user interface (UI) and other elements of human to computer interaction. I have noticed some IDers are stubbornly digging in their heels instead of acknowledging the transition.
If we’re going to design the best products, we need to acknowledge and accept the differences between ID and IxD and find a way to adapt without friction. I would recommend going one step further than living in harmony to become a hybrid designer who practices both.
<h2>Equal Pay for Equal Work?</h2>
If the rapid changes in products — it’s estimated there will be about 30 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things by the year 2020 — are not enough to compel IDers to consider learning IxD, salary might be. There is a pretty dramatic difference in hourly rates for IxDers and IDers, with the former beginning to command nice premiums over the latter. This is not a new phenomenon. When you look at design consultancies, typically they will bill out an interaction designer at a higher rate than they would bill an industrial designer, and some large design consultancies are transitioning their staff’s focus from ID to UI design.

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There’s more pressure on price because it’s easier to outsource the ID component of product development. It’s easier to do ID when you’re disconnected from your market, whereas IxDers still need to be connected to the market, to the users. There’s a very strong cultural dimension to IxD, which makes it a lot more difficult to outsource.
As an IDer by background this is frustrating for me, but we need to accept that ID is becoming more of a commodity service. The way I see it, we have two options: We can keep doing what we’re doing until we lose product categories and our volume of work shrinks; or we can evolve.
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ID has been around since the early 1900s whereas IxD has only been around for about 10 years, and IxD has some of the hallmarks of a young discipline in flux. <a title="From Human Factors to User Experience: What’s In A Name?" href="http://www.delve.com/insights/user-research-and-interaction-design/" target="_blank">For one, a lot of organizations still refer to IxD as many different things.</a> You’ll see acronyms for user interface (UI), user experience (UX), and interaction design (IxD) used seemingly interchangeably. (At Delve, we’ve decided to call what we do IxD, to encompass the product design experience and to avoid limiting our nomenclature to screen design (UI) or Web design (UX).)
There has always been a disconnect between the ID process and the IxD process. In my opinion, it’s due to our inherent timelines and processes. ID happens on a very constrained timeline. We have a long production development process and tooling component, and we work backwards from a launch date. We’re forced into developing a process that’s locked in time, so we try to lock down the design as quickly as possible. We start wide and exact a funneling effect where we narrow down the constraints and the number of concepts until deciding on one to refine further until it’s ready for production.

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