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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- cannonball0
Interactive Designer - workload pack mule. Avoid this position.
InteracTION Designer - thinking man. Gets in lengthy debates and sometimes fistfights with Senior Visual Designer
- 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.
- MSTRPLN0
what about "Experience Designer"
this was floating around the last place I was working, it made no sense to me.
- 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.
- janne760
i never get action, let alone interaction
- uan0
design for interaction
- ETM0