My path: film/video studies (undergraduate), low-level film/video production jobs ==>
master's program in communication arts specializing in telecom policy but including more video and film stuff, as well as programming (Pascal), general interest in shaping new communications technologies ==> teaching studio television production ==> parallel track (all along) music performance ==> work as project manager for new telecom technologies for a university extension service ==> year of free-form bicycling in Asia resulting in 0 idea of how to make a living ==> sudden inspiration that I could do technical writing after several months of top 40 bands, temporary warehouse jobs, etc. ==> started doing UI design as outgrowth of technical writing work, realizing that a better UI could save hundreds of pages of convoluted explanation in a manual ==> working in a telecom expert systems lab doing technical writing, UI design, knowledge engineering, participatory design, ... ==> developing/designing Compendium <http://www.compendiuminstitute.org>hypermedia software tool and methods ==> project managing web projects for telecom firm ==> managing large web applications team including UI designers, IAs, developers, testers, etc. ==>> Although design has been and is part of my work since the 1980s, I've never worked solely as a Designer per se, so not sure if this counts. Anyway, another data point for the discussion. Al ________________________________________________________________ *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
