This is a great thread! One for the archives for sure.
My path to IxD started when I was a kid and we got our first C64 I
suppose. I immediately took to programming, and when we got an Appl
IIe with Logo on it graphics became my main interest.
From there I got more and more into computers and
My path:
film/video studies (undergraduate), low-level film/video production jobs ==
master's program in communication arts specializing in telecom policy but
including more video and film stuff, as well as programming (Pascal),
general interest in shaping new communications technologies ==
It%u2019s so inspiring to read about people's journeys into the arena
of design! Thanks to all who've shared. Here's my story...
I have always been a designer, but did not know it for many years.
I've always drawn, and imagined things that did not exist, and tried
to make the world a more
P.P.P.S. Oh, yeah, and computers have always been a part of my life.
My dad was a Systems Analyst and just naturally adopted them at home.
We had an Atari and TI-99 when I was a kid, and Osborne, the first
portable computer (it went with us to China, and later went with
me to Stanford where it
My path is somewhat similar to Nick Q from earlier in the thread.
Start out as pre-med Biology major
Take a psych class and think it's super interesting
Switch to psych major w/ a slight focus on cognition and aging, intending to
end up as a geriatric psychiatrist
Work in a judgment and decision
Hi!
In my first post here... sorry if it's inappropriate...I just wanted
to say that your manifesto is useful for one context, that is, the one
that life in general creates. It was very inspiring, and I thank you.
I'm thinking about Hesse, maybe because I'm reading him, or maybe not
just that.
Might as well pitch in my 2c of history:
I think it all began back in the mid-80s when I overheard my parents arguing
about whether they should get a computer. I distinctly remember my dad
saying:
A computer!? The only computer I'll ever need is [pointing to his head] *right
here.*
I sat in the
HTML Programmer UI Designer (UI Engineer who did his own
visuals; and badly) Producer Technologist Information Architect
UI Designer (AGAIN) Interaction Designer
The journey took about 9 years and it wasn't until I joined this
community that I really understood what design even was.
On 18/12/2007, Fred Beecher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/18/07, pauric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think many of us took the long winding path actually. I was
wondering if we could hear some stories about those pivotal moments in
our careers where we changed from being 'X' in to
I have been looking into the IxD realm for about 3 years now. I chose
to major in Psychology due to a natural curiosity of why people do
what they do in general. And computers/technology has always kept my
attention. One day I searched on the web to find out how I could apply
my Psyc degree to
Awesome thread!
How I came to be here seems like a long and winding road. But when I
look at it in hindsight, it's actually more straight than I thought.
I came from an art background at a very young age. Others considered
me gifted I just thought kids were suppose to have such artistic
For the designer part, it goes way back to a childhood interest in
drawing. Later came an interest in the graphic design field via a
fascination with the non-photo blue pencil, which I thought was
really neat and opened up all kinds of magical possibilities of
precision. Then came Quark (even
HTML Programmer UI Designer (UI Engineer who did his own
visuals; and badly) Producer Technologist Information Architect
UI Designer (AGAIN) Interaction Designer
The journey took about 9 years and it wasn't until I joined this
community that I really understood what design even was.
. . .
Over the past 10 years, my interests and self-education have been:
Programming Web Programming Web Design Usability (2000) Human
Factors/HCI UI design (2002) narrowly-defined IxD IA broadly-defined
IxD/IA/UX (2004/05)
Over the same time frame, however, my work (mostly at short-lived,
On 12/18/07, pauric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think many of us took the long winding path actually. I was
wondering if we could hear some stories about those pivotal moments in
our careers where we changed from being 'X' in to Interaction
Designers
Fun thread.. I remember that moment
I was wondering if we could hear some stories about those pivotal moments
in
our careers where we changed from being 'X' in to Interaction
Designers
Great thread!
For me, it happened twice. The first time, I was a fledgling web code monkey
tasked with a redesign for an employer's site.
Discuss] When/Where/How did you decide to be a designer?
I think many of us took the long winding path actually. I was
wondering if we could hear some stories about those pivotal moments in
our careers where we changed from being 'X' in to Interaction
Designers
regards -pauric
I come from a graphic design background and am trying to pickup more and
more programming bits of knowledge. I don't yet hold any title with
Interaction in it. I'm still a very broadly titled Web Designer at my
work, but I love it. By process of elimination (being the sole web
designer) and
biology major switch to environmental science major switch to
psychology major graduate with b.a. in psych behavioral tech in
supervised group living program for mentally ill adults switch to
therapeutic recreation tech for mentally ill adults client vomits
on my head quit job reenter
Hi everyone, I'm brand new to the list. What a great question for
introducing myself!
I was in art school in the late 90's, but frustrated with the lack of
web training. I sent my resume out, mostly in jest, and got leads
from Microsoft and RealNetworks. I picked RealNetworks, known far and
It was during my junior year of college, in the graphic design
program at WVU, that my professor took a group of us to a
multimedia design conference held at Marshall University. Jim
Ludtke presented the work he had done with The Residents on their
Freak Show CD-ROM. There was a lot of
My interest in becoming an information and interaction designer
started very early.
My first icon set that I created (probably like most of my early
drawings - when I was supposed to be doing something else) was when I
was in the first grade in 1967:
Oh, this is a good one!
I actually intended to go to school in graphic design and ended up
with a social anthropology degree instead. Near the end of college I
had already regretted that earlier decision and quickly enrolled in
art school after getting my degree for web/multimedia design.
It was basically from 2 parallel paths: one from my interest in art
and another from my interest in computing. Those paths met some day
after thinking that art in itself was not what I really wanted and
after investigating about Human-Computer Interfaces...
I searched and come up with Tog's we
My first inkling was eleven or twelve years ago when I created a Visual
Basic UI to the phone queues of a technical support call center. It was a
huge project - we thought it would be a simple integration exercise and it
turned into more of an invention (a year late, untested phone switch
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