Patrick: "For most of us, we build things that have an impact on the bottom line of a company, and that's all (or since when did a web widget save someone's life?)."
At least I have that boast ;-) (helping towards the design of safer commercial aircraft cockpits and enabling doctors to learn about skin cancers, etc) Right now, I am bottom line only and that's all, but it's still a great job to have, a wonderful career to be building, and the work is still fascinating. I guess a lot of the 'other' stuff we work on will depend upon our background. As I said earlier, I'm a psychologist with training in human factors and HCI so I got to work on some large juicy projects with a demonstrable impact on people's lives (perhaps I should say a 'lack of impact' given the subject matter of aircraft cockpits?). However when all's said and done, I think most companies would rather hire someone with a creative background as that is closer to IxDs perceived nature. Even things like usability testing seem a million miles away from being a trained researcher when they are just the same things. I cannot say for certain, but I get the impression that some companies/recruiters are quite confused when a psychologist applies for any kind of UX job, especially when they advertise for candidates with computer science degrees... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40619 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
