Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread j. eric townsend
Karl Nieberding wrote: On that note, any tips on a good resource to learn design sketching from? Two answers: 1) Assuming you can't find a local class, I'd go with the Rapid Viz book. 2) Draw every day for 30-60 minutes. "Drawing tip of the day: It takes about 1000 sketches to get pretty go

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread dave malouf
This piece by our very own Will Evans (@semanticwill) is a tremendous piece on the importance and value of sketching. http://blog.semanticfoundry.com/2010/01/31/shades-of-gray-thoughts-on-sketching/ - dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ix

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread Matthew Thomas
Hi Karl, I just recently purchased this book: http://amzn.com/0123740371 Some really great tips for sketching UX! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48846 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread Karl Nieberding
On that note, any tips on a good resource to learn design sketching from? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48846 Welcome to the Inter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread Matthew Thomas
Ali, I'd like to reinforce Dave's comments. I started my career in interactive a little over 2 years ago (after undergrad). Since then I've had the benefit of getting experience as an interactive developer and designer. My philosophy was that if you get experience in each of the different interact

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread Ali Dehghanpour
Dear Dave... Seeing my problem as design point of view will really help me a lot...I'll Focus on that and I'll come back with more questions soon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48846

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread Ali Mohamed
Hi Ali, I think the IxDesigner will get more responsibility to be a creator not just adjusting usability. The more knowledge you have the more opportunity you will get. Creativity will be more appreciated in this profession and even more knowledge about globalization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread dave malouf
I think you have a design problem. So the first thing you need to do is reduce. You are aiming too broadly and looking for a simple answer in an ever complex world. First, what do you want to be when you grow up? I ask this to all my students when they are asking me work related questions. Don't w

[IxDA Discuss] Future of IxD student???

2010-01-31 Thread Ali Dehghanpour
Hi, I'm Studying IxD. For this summer I'm looking for Internship around the world in different companies in different field from Google and Microsoft to small interactive art and media companies. I realized that the role of interaction designers may differ very widely regarding the focus of the com