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: http://www.anigami.com/jimwich/jimwich_archives/jwpicts_2_2005/Childhood_Drawings/4.html TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ytgrhj My first interaction design project ("hardware" and "interaction model") was a project I decided to do on our kitchen table in August of 1971 just before I started 5th grade. I really wanted a computer, and the only way I was going to get one was to build one. I started with the design and interaction model. I built it as well, but unfortunately no photos survived. A month later I took it to school and demoed it to my classmates (a rural school where I had the same 29 classmates from Kindergarten through our Senior year): http://www.orbitnet.com/waybackwhen/ And as soon as I graduated from Design School (which was a combination of Product, Industrial, Graphic, Typographical, and Environmental Design), I went right into Interaction Design consulting (mostly on products in the early years) and never looked back. One of my first post-college projects that I did myself was this flat-panel computer and associated storyboarded software model (for a smart building). All of the screenshots were done on my 128k Mac. And the model itself was all done in foamcore (and had a lot of functionality and moving features). http://www.orbitnet.com/1985_Flatpanel_Computer/ Jim James Leftwich, IDSA CXO - Chief Experience Officer SeeqPod, Inc. Emeryville, California http://www.seeqpod.com Orbit Interaction Palo Alto, California http://www.orbitnet.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23679 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
