Isaac,
Full disclosure, I am one of the teachers and helped develop material
for the design strategy and design research days. UXI was designed
primarily to give attendees hands on experience with tools and
techniques that we have found effective in our practice. Each day is
more geared to the app
I come from a web design/software development background -- the design
research and design strategy were the two most useful days for me.
Really eye-opening, and full of practical examples and opportunities
to try things out in a group setting. The IxD day was also fun...
learned great ways to get
"Design Research" was actually my favorite of all the workshops. I
think that you'd be surprised by what you can accomplish even with a
limited budget and timetable. I use at least some of the techniques
discussed on that day all the time. The strongest part that I found
applicable to my day-to-day
I was actually in a similar situation a little over a year ago. I attended
it and I would agree that it hasn¹t made up for the things you can learn
from a lot of hands on experience, but it did introduce me to a lot of
information at once. It was also a great experience for meeting other
profession
Thank you for all the feedback. So far it sounds like the workshops
provide a decent introduction/overview, but don't go very deep into
the theory side of things.
Were all 4 days useful? I was thinking of only attending the last two
days (IA and IxD) and attending the first two at a later date.
(
I was in the situation as well. I came from software development into
interaction design because I found myself much more interested in it
as a field than development and I was fortunate enough to work for a
company that allowed me to make the transition. Essentially, my
knowledge of the field came
I'm a new (1 year in) UX designer who was previously working as a
front-end developer. I attended the UX intensive this year and found
it really useful, mainly for the reasons you mention. I felt I had
the experience and instinct relevant to my role, but the lack of
formal training sometimes left m
Isaac,
Many UX people don't have formal training for perhaps 2 reasons;
availability and the fact their interest in UX is driven by their
passion.
Experience however does (or should) count for a lot. Front end
developers get a hard time simply because they are often the culprit
in bad usability e
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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] ADVICE: Is the UX Intensive right for me?
I've been considering Adaptive Path's UX Intensive, but have heard
I've been considering Adaptive Path's UX Intensive, but have heard
conflicting reports about it's value. Here's my situation:
* Sole UX Designer for an early dot-com startup
* First time holding the title of "UX Designer"
* 8+ years of web design experience (visual design & front-end
development)
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