Interaction Design Association Initiatives

This initiative focuses on the central issues of the IxDA organization, including IxDA group and membership policy, finance and fundraising, communications, and branding.

The Communications initiative supports the operations and activities of IxDA through the identification, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of content and channels. Our aim is to help IxDA deliver on its principles of community engagement, transparency, and openness.

In addition to written content, the Communications initiative looks to develop brand assets for use by other initiatives, and the community-at-large.

The IxDA Conference committee aims to provide a year-agnostic conference role, pulling together a team of community members to help create a sustainable cycle of conferences. In the short term, the Conference Committee will assist in planning processes around conference initiation, location selection, and planning. Longer term, the committee will capture insights gained from each conference - the major Interaction conference, and regional IxD conferences with which we're involved - and provide community members with a collection of resources with which a conference or event can be planned and staged.

This initiative is responsible both for supporting existing technical infrastructure, such as the discussion list, as well as new initatives.

The discussion list is one of the centerpieces of the IxDA community; this initiative covers moderation as well as management and announcements.

IxDA has dozens of local groups, supporting a city and regional community of interaction designers. This initiative supports the creation of such a group, as well as the maintenance and ongoing care of these groups.

IxDA has a strong connection to higher education; this initiative is intended to foster curricula discussion and design, and to bring a peer to peer learning opportunity to IxDA members through mentorship. Has the aim to create a useful repository of curricula structure, lecture content, reading material, and other artifacts that, collectively, illustrate best practices for higher education of Interaction Designers and encourage the development of new interaction design programs. Additional focus is to create an organic system of mentors who are willing to work with community members, on a one-on-one basis, to help nurture and develop expertise in a specific area of Interaction Design.

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The International Ambassadors initiative emphasizes and describes the truly broad and international reach of interaction design in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and throughout the world.

In pursuit of our mission to improve the human condition through the advancement of the discipline of Interaction Design, and to foster a community of interest to further that goal, IxDA actively encourages and nurtures relationships with other associations, institutions and businesses. This initiative coordinates these activities, ensuring the community of Interaction Designers enjoys the benefits of these relationships.