I agree that life is only life when it moves but that movement is not necessarily mobility. In that regard movement can become a waste but mobility itself can be redefined as that which makes the user (A.K.A me) most alive.

I also appreciate discovering discovering here the observational nature of IxD (first time I have been acquainted with the term), and as a user I appreciate designers that acknowledge that I do live in the real world. That simple attitudinal shift is an intelligent way going forward in a world where we the users can now also observe designers.

In that regard we all become designers of something, whether that be improved interactive interfaces or the designing of an individual existence.

When observation becomes emergent experience we benefit, but when observation is commented on or hardened into a viewpoint or a theoretical construct, it often serves to lose the true essence in the design capacity – if not also preventing us to reach the new levels of our own design capability. So if there is one thing that has fundamentally changed about the world of design is that due to interaction become an expanding thinking and/or a more mobile space, we are all becoming designers.

M.