Hi Matt, All the best with your endevour and new career! Here's my 2 cents worth:
1. What Interactive Job titles should I be applying for? - Beginner/Intern Information Architect/ Interaction Designer/Prototyper. I'd get anything you can to get in the door, even Business Analyst. 2. Can you recommend any studios in NY or SF that would be good to start a career in Interaction Design. - The job market is pretty tight in NYC, I'd imagine SF is tight as well. An idea is to network like a madman, and see what's available. Don't be discouraged if the pickings are slim, get something and take it from there. 3. What professional and technical skills should be built upon before applying to a Studio that works in Interaction design (web site design, mobile applications, user interface, and interactive media.) - Knowing how to prototype is a great start - Basic JavaScript, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, Cross browser/platform/device knowledge. Build anything for browsers and devices, it always looks good if you have an i-Phone app to show, even if it does virtually nothing but look good. - UML/modeling is good - Activity & Sequence diagrams are useful, Visual Vocabulary has some nice tools. - Read up on the classics, know the basics, Old school Jacob Nielson, (lately he seems to be getting Alzheimer’s), Tufte, Jared Spool, Old school Alan Cooper (dido to Jacob Nielson). There's got to be 50 good writers in this field over the past 20 years. Note this field is very new, but some of the older books are the most relevant. Good Luck! Rich -- Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
