Being a Senior Designer is more then leading into the bleading edge, (although you should be knowledgeable of this).
It's important to rember a non-trivial value of being a Senior Designer is simply business experience in design situations. Think in terms of University "teachs you how to learn", not ""just what you learned". I'm leading a UX team and most of my team knows more about the latest greatest then I do. What I bring to the table is experience in initial organization and forcasting implications of design decision across the entire SDLC, including SME Buy-in, Engineering LOE, UAT Testing, QA Testing, Beginner User Acceptance, Intermediate User Acceptance, and Advanced User Acceptance. My "Senior" insight aides my team in the following ways: Structuring the problem Initial planning and prioritization, Evaluating Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities given certain designd ecisions and relations between designs. Worrying upfront about design implications Keeping calm in later stages given plans change or feedback isn't all rosy. None of the above skills tend to be excelled at by Junior Designers, simply because they haven't failed in 20 different ways. Rich Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:17:20, Simon Asselbergs < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear paintgrl99, > > First off all, nice you are joining at interaction08. > > >>Back in the old days I was considered a thought leader. > > You still are. You just have to rediscover some of your best > qualities > which got you so far, or you have to improve them which can be a lot > of > fun. > > -- > Joseph Rich Rogan > President UX/UI Inc. > http://www.jrrogan.com ________________________________________________________________ *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
