What we’re see­ing is a matur­ing of a term that rep­res­ents dif­fer­ent things. It rep­res­ents some­thing dif­fer­ent for our cli­ents, to the web industry as a whole and to the sub­set of pro­fes­sion­als who have been prac­ti­cing user exper­i­ence design for the past 20 years.

Just like the debate about whether design­ers should be able to write HTML, this dis­cus­sion is just not as black and white as every­one is mak­ing out. There’s a whole lot of grey in there.

read on:
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/on-defining-ux

"Is the Internet really rewiring our brains? Sure, everything we do rewires our brains. That’s how our brains work (On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins is a good primer). That’s how we learn, through experience and repetition, which gets carved into new neuropathways over time. The Internet is no different.

Is this rewiring somehow detrimental? If it is, then all the bookworms like Carr will end up being smarter than the rest of us and evolution will reward them. But something tells me that is not going to happen. The fact of the matter is that the Internet spreads information more broadly than the printed word ever did. It makes it easier to get up to speed on topics that you otherwise would know nothing about, such as the effects of the Internet on the brain."