David, I think the career path that Dan outlined loosely defines the next steps. Unfortunately I find that internally at my company I need to do a lot of lobbying to be invited at a more strategic level. I'm also a bit self-conscious about being able to speak the business vernacular and clearly articulate the ux plan mapped to that business understanding.
For me I feel like unless I want to stay in an executional role I'll have to go back to school (for self-confidence and to get the business acumen). I went to the Pratt orientation earlier this month for Design Management and it sounds like a great program. That's where i'm putting my eggs, at least for now :) Adrian On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:37 PM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > Thanks for your reply. This is very interesting, and I'm surprised there > hasn't been more discussion around this topic. It would be interesting to > know what the IxDA distribution looked like as far as level of skills. > Unfortunately being a fairly new discipline (in the eyes of business), it's > hard to understand what the next steps are. That's why I'm looking to > people who have made that transition, maybe I can gleam some helpful nuggets > of information on how I can proceed. > > Love to hear from others in that "after senior ixder" role. > > Thanks, > David > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 14, 2008, at 11:10 AM, David Shaw wrote: >> >> Currently I am a senior >>> IxDer and starting to plot out my career path. Would love to hear from >>> those who were in my shoes before that made the transition to the next >>> step. >>> >> >> The hard part is at the top. It's a fairly straightforward path from junior >> designer --> designer --> sr. designer. After that, the career paths start >> moving in different directions: towards management (creative director type >> roles) or some kind of super specialist (lead designer). Or, you can go >> start your own firm and do a bit of both. >> >> How the transitions happens vary pretty widely depending on the company. >> Larger agencies and companies usually have fairly defined career paths, >> while smaller ones often don't. The simple answer is often to be already >> doing the next step in your career path. If your company doesn't recognize >> that and promote you, probably somewhere else will (all things being equal >> and stable). >> >> >> Dan >> >> >> >> >> Dan Saffer >> Principal, Kicker Studio >> http://www.kickerstudio.com >> http://www.odannyboy.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 >> > > > > -- > "Art provokes thinking, design solves problems" > > w: http://www.davidshaw.info > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Adrian Chong www.adrianchong.com/blog ________________________________________________________________ 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
