This is the best thread! As a UX recruiter I get asked this question a lot too + I've always wondered how to encapsulate it best.
I usually try to frame it in context to web designers, as that's what most laypeople seem to recognize best, ie: "UX folks create the underlying framework and skeleton and *logic* of a site, and work very closely with the designers, to make it not only beautiful, but usable, too." Joanne Joanne Weaver President The Joanne Weaver Group UX + Creative Talent Acquisition http://www.joanneweavergroup.com +1 917 623 9369 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Katie Albers Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:13 PM To: [email protected] Cc: R. Groot Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch? " I make sure the computer works to make *your* life easier, instead of requiring you to make your work match the way the computer wants things" Also incomplete by a mile, but I find most people understand it relatively well. kt Katie Albers Founder & Principal Consultant FirstThought User Experience Strategy & Project Management 310 356 7550 [email protected] On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote: >> >> how do you introduce the work you do when you have a social >> introduction? > > > "I figure out what a web site or application needs to do, and why, > and then > design how people will perform those tasks." > > It's incomplete by a mile, but it works well after you say, "I'm an > interaction designer", and they look at you funny. > > -r- > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
