Brock, You post a wonderful question. In addition to all the posts above let me suggest something a bit different. The most effective technique for helping me learn IX and 'sharpen the saw' so to speak was to actually walk through and develop sketches and other IX deliverables for real world issues and put together formal deliverables. This would not only help my confidence it greatly increased my ability to communicate these solutions, which in my view is as important as any wire frame or sketch.
I needed this supplement practice a number of years ago as my day job did not afford me the opportunity to work on a broad range of challenges. What I learned rather quickly is IX Design is like any other skill, you have to put in the time and effort to improve. While I read countless books and I find each book leads to a more formalized and informed IX approach nothing replaces getting your hands dirty. I suggest looking for IX Design firms who post case studies. Read through them and develop your own solutions. Below is a list of places you can start, but a great resource is this site. Members will post their design challenges they are facing. It's a great place to begin developing your IX voice and communicating those solutions. Cooper offers some nice case studies http://www.cooper.com/about/case_studies/ Cooper offers a nice IX Design Exercise http://www.cooper.com/documents/interaction_design_test.pdf Mozilla Labs Design Challenge http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/ Hope this helps and welcome to the club! Kind regards, Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42406 ________________________________________________________________ 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
