I have a number of elevator pitches. I don't prefer one over the other - I kind of flip through them like a rolodex. These, however, are some of my most successful ones:
"I help clients make their products/sites more user-friendly" "When it comes to web or application design, I advocate on the user's behalf, rather than the client's" Once I mention that I'm an interaction designer, I usually have all ears at the table because most people have never heard of that before. So, post-elevator pitch, I elaborate with something along the lines of: "I help clients figure out what kinds of information needs to be on the site, how it should be organized, and how people will navigate through it in order to have the best experience possible." "I interview real people (or target users) and find out what they want and need from a site like the one I'm supposed to build, and then I translate those needs into design/business goals for the client" Then I finish off with something like: "I find it very rewarding because I get to help improve people's experiences with websites/products/life" And then we all invariably start to talk about websites that we hate. -Jen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36473 ________________________________________________________________ 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
