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Category: Essay
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DES 236 Name: Katarina Countiss What is your ideal job? My ideal job depends on who I am. I am planning on a series of career “upgrades” and explorations. One is “art director” at a design or advertising agency. Another is a designer in a tech incubator type situation. And another is User Interface designer.…
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Talk by Jay Al Hashal @objectivejay Today, Jay Al Hashal talked to the class about the role of a UX designer. The Designer is a storyteller. These days stories are transmedial. We consume messages, each others stories from each other, in person, from our phones, the Internet, etc. So many different devices, but the Law of…
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Is the first step in design structure or content? I’ve been thinking over the weekend about why Chris in the other EPUB class would be telling us “structure first, then content.” It struck me like a huge lightbulb: there’s an assumption there. Every time a designer goes to design something in InDesign, they have a…
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In an email I sent to a friend recently: I hope you find “meaning.” …I think it goes back to that idea that maybe life is a game. You have to decide for yourself what the winning conditions are, and harder yet, the little power-ups and special items to unlock that will encourage you…
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(Left: A still from a class assignment, a promotional video for Seattle Central Community College’s information technology program.) Part three of a Summary of Erik Fadiman’s Opening Lecture to His Web Design Bootcamp 2012 In Web Design, the newest considerations we must make involve the versatility of the web. The Internet is in mobile…
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I’ve been immersing myself in logos. My boss Terry advised me that the breakthrough for this logo won’t come by without preparation. Let me tell you a story: An old painter lived up in the Yamanashi Hills, his neighbors were a waterfall and a cliff. It took two trains to get to and then you…
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Part two of a Summary of Erik Fadiman’s Opening Lecture to His Web Design Bootcamp 2012 Simple is good. We are not just visual designers, we also build systems. It’s important to design within the realm of what you can build. There’s so many new things coming onto the scene that if you are a…
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(Left: A recreation of Erik’s Venn Diagram of Skills– visual design, user experience and web development) Part one of a Summary of Erik Fadiman’s Opening Lecture to His Web Design Bootcamp 2012 Sometimes, you are the UX designer, the visual designer and the developer all at the same…
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