Our Job
I realized something over the weekend that helped simplify what I have learned so far about our job. In very general terms, our job as Interaction Designers is to verbalize, visualize and make decisions.
Verbalize means being able to communicate with other people as you try and understand problems and issues with your projects. Visualize means being able to design and prototype for others (and you) to see and understand the solution. Doing it this way also allows us to get to the “real” thing as soon as possible. And most importantly, our job is to make decisions. Good or bad (hopefully, mostly good), we need to make decisions to move things forward and not stand still.