advice on a new position
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- mantra
I'm interviewing for a position as a web designer tomorrow morning for an agency who has a few Fortune 1000 clients.
I am only a year out of college, I have done mostly print design with about 10 web design projects under my belt with the agency that I am currently working for. I have both print and web projects to show for the interview and I feel fairly optimistic about my chances and I am really comfortable talking about my process/work.
Have any of you made the just from print to strictly web/interface design? If so, do you have any SERIOUS advice about doing so?
Thanks.
- BaskerviIle0
as long as you show a good understanding of universal deisgn principles in all your work – such as hierarchy, grids, good typography etc. then you should be fine showing work across a range of disciplines. Any job in design should be a balance of intelligence and skill :)
- shitehawke0
I'd suggest 'reverse cowboy'.
- or what baskerville said.shitehawke
- no-fucking-shit, i was about to post the same thing.bulletfactory
- fuck I'm late tooernexbcn
- mantra0
i knew that was coming
- mantra0
thx Baskerville.
Even though this is a "web designer" job, I still plan on showing several identities, small flash animations, site structure/wireframe designs, and print collateral.
I'm just hoping the guy doesn't want to see ALL web design, because my portfolio will only have about 3 or 4 web projects out of the 10 or 11 that I plan on showing.
Hopefully that isn't a problem.
- shitehawke0
my serious advice, is that while the principles of design are the same, as Baskerville suggests, it would be worth learning about the constraints or designing for web. Ie, graphics compression, fonts, sizing and legibility. While we may not be hampered by these constraints when using flash or designing for rich media, there are a lot of rules dictating how content is governed (ie accessibility standards etc) and its worth know the basics of this.
Having a knowledge of how to build a site would be beneficial as though you may not need to do the chopping and coding, its useful to be able to design with this in mind.
- shitehawke0
Id say that the quality of the design work is the most important. Perhaps it would be worth structuring your portfolio to take into account that the main focus is on web with the other projects as support? This way the interviewer is not sitting through a series of unrelated projects before they get to the web pieces.
- mantra0
thanks for a post that actually helps shitehawke.
I do have some background in HTML, CSS, z-index, actionscript... so when I start a project I always seem to keep the programming side in my mind.
I think this is one of the major points that I will touch on in the interview... just so the dude understands that I'm not designing a layout that would be impossible to slice/code whatever.
I also understand SEO optimization as well... I know from reading their blogs and such that they are starting to sell their clients on SEO, which could be in my favor as well.
- Good points all, I'd definitely talk about all of that, shows you can design but understand the code too.shitehawke
- Oh and good luck with the interview and try the reverse cowboy. :Dshitehawke
- mantra0
thx for the advice.
- akrokdesign0
good luck.
- mantra0
interview went great.
i showed a mix of print/web/and flash projects. i got the feeling that they were impressed as i was showing.
thx again.
- shitehawke0
so... how did the reverse cowboy go?