-88 Thought I'd be an architectht and went for a High School major in constructuion (to my knowledge at the time the best combo of art and 'technology') -91 Discovered Industrial Design (a 'better' combo of art and 'technology') and decided in euphoria to create a better basis for that by changing to mechanics major (applied to Umeå Institute of Design (UID) first time) -92 Mandatory Military Service (Applied to UID second time) -93 Applied to UID third time and got accepted to a 4yr ID education -94 Most of ny ID projects comprised of some form of IxD even if I didn't know about it by then -95 UID decides to extend the 4 to a 5yr edu with a 2yr Interaction Design specialization which I'm extremly happy to apply to as one of only two in the class (Reunions are really well visited) -98 Graduate with a Master in IxD -98 Head hunted into the web industry
Thats it, the rest you can read about in other places :) --Niklas On Dec 18, 2007 9:35 PM, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- --Niklas Niklas Wolkert IxDA Director http://ixda.org Sr. Interaction Designer Ergonomidesign http://ergonomidesign.com +46 (0)733 611 227 ________________________________________________________________ *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
