I'd agree wholeheartedly with Dave - my original Industrial Design major (back in 1980!) was a natural fit for me when I started UX in the mid 1990s (starting with embedded control systems before moving on to web design and web applications).
The thinking and task solving design processes you go through in ID are very similar to what I now do in UX, and the long term discipline and project management needed for ID also suits UX projects (which tend to last a lot longer than most graphic design projects). I learnt my visual/graphic design skills by taking on some graphic design electives such as typography and life drawing, but the ID major stream gave me a great foundation on which to build my career in web and application design. Loving it ever since! Good luck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42102 ________________________________________________________________ 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
