What is "Interactive Designer"
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- SigDesign
With all the titles floating around... i was curious... do Interactive Designers actually code as well?
The ad agency where I interned had IDs who basically designed, but outsourced the coding, and I found several places that do this as well. But, if you're a ID who codes as well, are you an Interactive Designer/Developer?
Or is it just... here's your title, you do whatever the hell we want you to!
- Llyod0
sometimes.
- 7point340
i'm quite sure this has been asked before.
as this is the internet, i'm going to have to warn you: we don't like redundancy and repetition.
- Fariska0
a load of bollocks
- lobstarr0
i've actually developed my work as well... albeit i'm not the best ASer in the world but I totally think its very useful in terms of talking to the flash animators/developers. You can talk more in their language and gauge how long something might take a lot better.
in the agency i am right now, i've done everything from online media to microsites (both creative/developing). But nothing as big as a huge corporate ass site.... Now that I've done that stuff I am thankful for going through it...
But there is another thing to say about being good at both instead of being really really good at one thing. Of which, I would prefer being really really good at one thing. Only guy i know that comes up to par at all levels of development and creative is c-phunk/ www.chrispicheca.ca. Friend and Family, that guy is amazing.
- designbot0
I think the best places can appreciate good designers and developers and will not try to hire a "jack of all trades". Technically any type of designer should not be doing anything more than basic coding imo. Even ActionScript seems to get exponentially difficult if your not a developer.
- lobstarr0
^----
Good point... which is why i don't agree where flash is going... moving away from a designers tool to more of a developers tool... there was something to say about being able to do what you wanted to do as a designer in flash.
- SigDesign0
That's the annoying thing about my job now... I want to focus on designing, but there's nobody else here to do the coding...
- tell them to hire... someone... im sure you could get some innocent interns.lobstarr
- that's what's happened to design in general on the web in the last 5 years7point34
- i suppose students are the only resource here... but I'd probably have to fix their code all the timeSigDesign
- I am in the same boat, been asked to do more and more coding and technical type stuff...there is nobody else here to do it really.designbot
- kind of sucks, but I suppose as long as it isn't a constant thing it's ok.designbot
- harlequino0
I'm an interactive designer. To me, it mainly refers to how I work and create. I'm interactive, I like to interact with you. Especially if you're a good lookin woman. I may ask you to remove your top. Or I may do that for you.
- DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE!!!7point34
- hahahaSigDesign
- Naw I never was no toad.harlequino
- *covers Baby Harle's eyesJaline
- lolharlequino
- SigDesign0
I get the sense that with the economy the way it is, the technical web jobs are more in demand... like, Facebook... I got an email back from them, but they wanted me to make a PHP calendar, and I haven't been able to get into the idea of doing that...
- I think you're right. I would look for a job you really want..until you have no choice and just need work.designbot
- mimeartist_com0
I'm an interaction designer. I build web sites (in general) for people, usually through rapid prototyping, and turning working models into the final model, that have been signed off through interaction, rather than just looking at photoshop documents and wireframes.
- Jaline0
Well, I am in an interactive design program and many hours are spent on coding. So I would say yes.
- SigDesign0
When I asked a student at Carnegie Mellon in the "Interaction" Design program, she corrected me for saying "Interactive," so that left me even more confused...
- But I guess Interactive is doing more design than coding, but Interaction is more scientificSigDesign
- they are the same thing. i think.mimeartist_com
- Faction180
interactive designer = an individual that designs primarily for interactive
- doesnotexist0
design for the web.
