Interaction Designer
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- Llyod
what do they do?
what does this mean?
http://www.qbn.com/jobs/?krop_jo…
- Jaline0
"Crispin Porter + Bogusky is seeking some of the most knowledgeable, innovative Interaction Designers in the world for its growing Interactive Department."
yeah..."interactive"
- I you work for the special Crispin Porter + Bogusky, you get a special title.Jaline
- *ifJaline
- i know a bunch more there now!madirish
- jaline you love commenting on your comments********
- I know. If notes counted towards my post count, I'd be well over 50,000 posts by now.Jaline
- agree. totally. I would be at like 100.********
- TheFatBaron0
"...wire frames, data flows, and site maps..."
- ninjasavant0
Thats what I do for a living. Its a combination of graphic design and human factors. Instead of just skinning a UI or adding icons or something you actually get involved with the development teams and work out how the information flows, what the screens look like in terms of layout, how information gets presented, how tasks are completed, and so on.
- this is what i do, plus leading the teams i am part of. interesting.madirish
- <<kelpie
- you're good people madirishninjasavant
- haha
thanks dude!madirish
- ********0
sounds like an interesting gig.
- Anees0
Information Architect $XXX
UX Designer $XX
Interactive Designer $X- At IBM we're paid as software engineersninjasavant
- what training do you have for that? out of interestkelpie
- my degrees are in studio art and psychology. The details I learned on the job.ninjasavant
- But if you're looking for a program you'd look into Computer Human Interaction (CHI). . .ninjasavant
- and double major/minor in graphic design/art.ninjasavant
- Or the other way around, either way, it takes a certain amount of ability to think technically and in cognitive termsninjasavant
- agree w/ ninja 100% here. my bg was art history/studio (study of g.design) + business and a color theory.madirish
- the CHI stuff came on-the-jobmadirish
- same here, I was lucky to pick it up on the job.ninjasavant
- cheers guys. it does sound interesting; my brother is a big time software engineer, hence my interestkelpie
- bollocks to the $ to the left.meffid
- cool, ninja and mad. that sounds interesting.Jaline
- ninjasavant0
jfletcher's blog is on this topic as well. www.designisbeautiful.com
- ********0
Crispin + Porter are making operating systems now?
- madirish0
as is experientia's: http://www.experientia.com/blog/…
- madirish0
think big blue would sport you to come to this this year, ninja?
http://www.poptech.com/
- ninjasavant0
I wish. Seems like the better our company is doing the tighter the belt gets. I've submitted an abstract to an internal conference we're having in September in Boston and its likely I won't get travel approved unless I can tie the trip to a customer visit. . .
Its one of the obnoxious perks.
- But I suppose when you employ 300,000+ people you have to control costs somehowninjasavant
- ********0
"Primary applications include InDesign and Visio"
that is a scary sentence to me
- InDesign is a great spec writing tool.
Visio is just what techheads know how to use.ninjasavant
- InDesign is a great spec writing tool.
- olli1010
I do this as well. Ninjasavant is correct - it's not about aesthetics (entirely) but more about the psychology of user interaction(TM).
InDesign and Visio aren't scary - it's the same philosophy as architecture. You need to make sure your building, website won't fall down, can be functional, etc... before you actually build it. :-)
- ukit0
I had a job like this for a while. In my case a lot of the work involved lots of meetings and interviewing people just to figure out what the application we were designing was supposed to do. Could be fun at times when since it's more of an intellectual challenge than just visual design, but also tedious and frustrating.
- ukit0
Although, I never used Visio (blegh). Used Illustrator for all my wireframes:)
- rson0
They are looking for a interactive designer so they do not need to hire a UX person.
- that made no sense. Im sick. point being the want to one person to do 2-3 jobs.rson
- fuck it i am going back to bedrson
- Same job, different titleukit
- sleep it off, bro. You'll be ok.ninjasavant
- not necessarily. at one place UX designers were different from Interactive Designers.monkeyshine
- depends on the skill set and division of laborninjasavant
- monkeyshine0
Visio is also not Mac friendly...of course there is Parallels but bah.
- studderine0
i do the same as well.
- studderine0
i hear the west coast likes to use interaction designer more.