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Last Friday, the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) launched its first
Global Student Competition in conjunction with Interaction 10 | Savannah, its annual conference. The competition is on the lookout for student work that exemplifies "Excellence in Interaction Design".

Embedded in the theme itself is an opportunity to define what has yet been undefined. Not to limit practice, but to better understand and articulate what it is we do. It is an opportunity to create a new method for assessing what is good interaction design (IxD) and offer this attempt as a point of evolving discourse:

As the discipline of IxD matures, the need for closer ties to design education programs that include the discipline of IxD intensifies. Every year the Interaction conference has been hosted by an educational institution with strong commitments towards creating tomorrow's designers with a strong base in IxD. This year we want to take the next step and broaden that relationship with future practitioners by offering them both a venue to demonstrate the amazing work that is going on within education programs around the world and to receive invaluable feedback from the practice community about the relevance and quality of the work being presented. This last goal is of the utmost importance to the core constituents of IxDA; to ensure that tomorrow's designers marry education's goals of practical development of future practitioners and the need to create new bodies of knowledge that can be used to inform today and tomorrow's practice.

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Deadline, Stage I: November 30, 2009