I have been looking into the IxD realm for about 3 years now. I chose to major in Psychology due to a natural curiosity of why people do what they do in general. And computers/technology has always kept my attention. One day I searched on the web to find out how I could apply my Psyc degree to my current career, and HCI popped up (I had never heard of it before). But I hadn't made a firm decision until about 2 months ago to try to enter the IxD field. The deciding factor was, as a web developer working for a firm with no interaction designers, but talented backend developers & visual designers, there's never any time for creating proper functional flows or conducting "usability" testing early in the project. I always found myself, during regular testing for code bugs, wishing we had more time to do things like add a logout button to a web app that users must login to. Things like that drove me crazy. Not to mention, some times we had frustrated users, even though the capabilities of the apps were awesome. Also, after seeing some awesome usability & interface design of products such as mobile phones & operating systems, I'd like to be able to eventually branch out into doing IxD for non-web applications, such as for mobile devices.
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