What is "Interactive Designer"
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- Jaline0
Are you more of a jack-of-all-trades when you do Interactive Design?
- no, you're often someone who has taken on other skills as it aides the jobmimeartist_com
- CALLES0
fapping is interactive
- jfletcher0
I'm an InteracTION Designer... does that help?
- nearestexit0
I would add that interaction designers are more concerned with the behavior user undertakes when performing a task and also what the user encounters when visiting a page (e.g. does that tab open slide open a hidden panel).
To add to the confusion, I would add interface designer (or visual interface designer) to the mix. And then, I know some people calling themselves experience designers, which is a catch-all for folks acting as graphic designers, info. architects, interaction designers, etc.
- gung_hoek0
I am an interactive designer, though where I work "Screen designer" would be more fitting.
I don´t do any coding at all, I provide the developers with layouts, they take it from there. During the job I picked up the necessary knowledge of the technological limits, like what kind of UI-feature would be too expensive to code, and so forth. Besides that I don´t come near the technology part.
My job is the complete conception of all kinds of interactive applications (small sites / enterpise level sites / backend interfaces / desktop applications / ads / multimedia content) in regard to look and feel, text content, UI and quality control of the final product.
Besides that, I have to provide detailed storyboards and animation concepts for the flash-developers. Also, the production of 2D/3D video content is increasingly part of the job. I am completely occupied with keeping up to pace in these fields, so I have no intentions of picking up any coding expertise.
- silentseven0
What is high? What is higher?
What is learn? What is learning?
What is higher learning?- I suppose it's the opposite of low, lower, forget, forgetting, and lower forgetting?SigDesign
- Obv you have never seen Higher Learningsilentseven
- cannonball0
Interactive Designer - workload pack mule. Avoid this position.
InteracTION Designer - thinking man. Gets in lengthy debates and sometimes fistfights with Senior Visual Designer
- MSTRPLN0
what about "Experience Designer"
this was floating around the last place I was working, it made no sense to me.
- janne760
i never get action, let alone interaction
- uan0
design for interaction
- ETM0
- nearestexit0
i think experience designer is a bit of stretch for a title. every part of creating a website touches the creation of the experience a user will encounter. most folks i know who use it are visual designers-interactive designers-info. architects combined with a dash of front-end developer. i think they just like calling themselves UX designers.
- SigDesign0
"Few lives must be more satisfying than the life of a Web Designer. You live the life of a god/goddess as you create something amazing from nothing all day long and the colors, movement and sound fill you with delights you’d never imagined. Nothing you do is ever boring and the diversity of work is never ending."
- It's not a bad life.Nightshade
- I mean I love my jobSigDesign
- mimeartist_com0
the trouble with the ui type that hand over photoshop docs is that they never really understand how you go from screen 1 to screen 2... and in my opnion, if you're going between screens you've failed, or you should be designing a book
- mimeartist_com0
viewzi will fail, if it was quick then fair enough... but it takes ages to drag loads of stuff that you've then got to spend time working out what the hell is going on... try this http://www.google.com
- emmaopeel0
Interactive designers need to have a sense of code and technology (i.e. what is in the toolbox) or else there is no reason to add in the qualifier (designer itself is a perfectly noble professional title). When hiring, I did not expect interactive designers to have serious coding experience, but I did expect them to have some curiosity. And, although times have now changed, I usually expected them to have some level of flash/animation or ActionScript (even if very minimal) experience. If your interests fall towards the interactive medium (and that is more than web, by the by), then you are an interactive designer.
I must admit I am not a fan of the term Digital Designer which I have seen run rampant around the agencies recently. It makes no sense, particularly as all designers these days (okay, letterpress) are working digitally as their primary tool/environment.
- whendog0
just be thankful your not called "design ninja"