Interaction Awards by IxDA

December 2010

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Jennifer Bove and a group of fantastic advisors – Marc Rettig, Mark Breitenberg, and Steve Baty, on a new program for the Interaction Design Association: the Interaction Awards.

Today, IxDA president Janna DeVylder announced the launch of the IxDA Interaction Awards, a first-of-its-kind awards program dedicated to celebrating global excellence in the discipline of Interaction Design.

The inaugural Interaction Awards will recognize and promote 10 outstanding works completed in the last two years across domains, platforms, environments, and cultures, that embody and improve meaningful relationships between people and the products and services they use. Entries will be judged by an expert jury comprised of practitioners, academics, business leaders, and elected community members. The jury chair and members will be announced early next year. The Interaction Awards 12 will open for submission in the Spring 2011, and will be awarded at the Interaction 12 Conference in Dublin, Ireland, in February 2012.

There’s been a lot of talk, bashing, passionate rants, etc. about design awards and competitions in the past few weeks. We’ve been observing this tumult from the sidelines, anxious to join the conversation with a tangible, open, and inclusive proposal grounded in IxDA volunteer-led organisational philosophy.

The Interaction Awards program is a community initiative spearheaded and powered by volunteers dedicated to interaction design. Wherever you stand on the topic, please rise to the opportunity to actively participate in its development and success!

You can participate to the conversation on IxDA.org, but also on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Again, we really need volunteers to help make this program a success. If you’re interested, connect with us!

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