Along these lines, this discussion came up a lot this morning on Twitter - Imagine a world in which you work full time creating a lot of deliverables, sketches, wireframes, sitemaps, task flows, user stories, but because of the NDA and various work product ownership things signed - you can never show any work - none of your portfolio. Technically, having done this for 14 years now, ever single deliverable I have ever done is locked up behind some legal contract, and I am pretty sure that is true for most IxDers out there. So how do you walk into an interview - legally - when we can't show anything we've ever done. There is no "you can't show any of this proprietary work unless you are applying for another job," - clause - and we are all guilty of this because sitting on the other side of the table - we all expect candidates to show a portfolio (even though we know they legally can't - so we are asking them to break a contract to get a job), and then before we give them a job, we say "We know we wanted to see your portfolio to get this job - but if you ever leave here, you can't show any work done here to anyone else - ever" It seems insane, hyprocritical, legally precarious if not bordering on pathalogical. Yet we all perpetuate this little "don't ask don't tell" policy as if everything is hunky dorey.
~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [email protected] aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Jen Randolph <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott: > Thanks for your detailed reply! I too feel much better about the > interview when the interviewer has me design something on the spot. I > can talk about my work until I'm blue in the face, but I feel like I > can really *show* the interviewer my strengths if I'm sketching > something out for them. > > As an interviewer, though, I'd like to ask you this question: when a > candidate for a job has come to your office for the interview, how do > you like to see them present their work samples to you? Maybe a > sketchbook, maybe a nice binder full of work, or something along my > method - loose pages that can be spread out? Or maybe has there been > any in-person presentation of work that has stood out to you in the > past, and that you wish more candidates did? > > I'm sort of trying to find out if there happens to be any sort of > "standard" for this when it comes to the IxD field. Many of my > graphic design friends bring a book to their interviews, and leave > some samples and a business card behind; my motion graphics friends > bring a demo reel. I want to know if something like this exists for > IxD interviews. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37179 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
