Brian Hoffman wrote in another thread: "While many of you have followed a very straight career path into interaction design, I'm probably not alone here in having come into this field along a more winding path."
I think many of us took the long winding path actually. I was wondering if we could hear some stories about those pivotal moments in our careers where we changed from being 'X' in to Interaction Designers.... I fell off the engineering centric wagon in 1996 when I was writing code for a chip that made the LEDs flash on the front of a 10/100 ethernet hub, i.e. the 'interface'. I had to solve a number of technical issues translating the large array of information inside the chip in to the limited abilities of the LEDs . In looking around for tools/thinking to correctly solve these problems I chose some UCD principles. A couple of months later I used the similar principles to discovered a major usability bug and had a product placed on ship hold. From there on out I was responsible for advocating the user. regards -pauric ________________________________________________________________ *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://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
