After teaching at Savannah College of Art and Design for close to five years, I found myself with over four hundred alumni, and I keep in touch with a large quantity of them through email. A strange pattern started to become evident in our communications: a lot of them are unhappy. … »

Today on Radio Johnny Jeff Parks chats with Karen McGrane about how the future leaders in design can build a strong portfolio and interview skills to land their dream career. Karen also address the need to work effectively within the multi-disciplinary teams that make up every sector today when given the title of User Experience Designer. … »

There are many interaction designers like myself whose growth into the field was a feat of organic if not chaotic chance. Our community of practice was born out of the convergence of people who did not have the option to be formerly trained in interaction design in almost any way what-so-ever. So we educated ourselves – sometimes alone and sometimes with the support of peers and mentors. It is a common presumption that because we did it this way we have to somehow hold out a universe where that path continues to not just be an option, but to be a viable one; and one that we even laud over other more formal ones. … »