I also have an editorial background, fwiw. I think you do need a web portfolio if you wish to be hireable by shops that do primarily web work. (Not sure Ideo fits that category.) You could create that portfolio yourself in your copious free time (personal site/blog, sites for others, volunteer for nonprofits, etc.), or you could go to design school or to some new-media school and be forced to create a portfolio of sites and applications as class projects.
-xian- On 11/1/07, Wesley Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, given that: > 1. I have content origins > 2. I haven't had to make a web site in 6.5 years > 3. I have 10 years experience, including some web experience, and have > designed lots of non-web interactive products > 4. I'd like to be able to work for companies other than a toy company > > Do I need to go back to design school if I want to be hireable by a company > that values great interaction design? > > Or do I just need to get my butt in gear and create an awesome online > portfolio using as many of the latest web technologies, since I don't have > to create web stuff for work? -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Yahoo! pattern detective http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns IA Institute director of technology http://iainstitute.org ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
