Here's a question for you all along those lines. What's a good way to create a new portfolio, when all your past work was company confidential? (i.e. I cannot use any of it)
Here's what I'd suggest: Look around the web or your computer or where ever and identify poor interfaces. (American Express billing UI is particularly bad. Or Facebook or GMail ;-) Then design better alternatives as a personal project. Just do it. Go through the paces: sketches, flows, wireframes, visual comps, etc. That can help serve as a demonstration to others of your interest, ability, with real-world digital products, and so forth. Yes it's time consuming, but this approach may help those who may lack sufficient work experience or have lots of confidential work.
And It's good self-practice. Besides, if you really want to be a designer, then you gotta put the time/effort into it to prove your passion and desire. Plus the act of going through this for yourself will be a nice test to see if you really want to do this stuff daily (minus of course all the crazy team dynamics and client issues!)
Finally, this may be timely and relevant here, I just wrote this over the weekend on the essence of being an IxD:
http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=136 Hope this helps... Uday Gajendar Sr. Interaction Designer Voice Technology Group Cisco | San Jose ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 408 902 2137 ________________________________________________________________ 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
