skills/expertise/experience (was: Re: [thelist] a weird question)
Erika Meyer
erika at seastorm.com
Thu Jan 18 13:16:34 CST 2001
>i've seen a crapload of resumes (and CVs, portfolios, etc) come
>through lately from people who claim to have experience in, or be
>experts at, content-management systems, usability, interface
>design, coding, etc...
I'm curious: what would constitute, oh, just to pull one out, an
expert in 'interface design.' ?
Would you have had to have done some years at Xerox PARC... have been
on the original Macintosh design team... or would a few years of
hacking web sites do it? Would you need some software and/or CD rom
experience in addition to web design? Would you need a degree in it?
I see this a lot: "5+ years experience in interface design." I
always wonder if I have had to have been designing application
interfaces for 5 years, or if my experience making construction paper
christmas cards and English 100 handouts would count.... or how about
the books I've read on the subject?
I mean, sheesh, on my first computer, this was the interface:
<interface>
C:>
</interface>
(And I wonder: why the carat? Why not just a colon?)
GUI design is still a pretty new field.
And what about raw talent? Does anyone give a damn about that?
I'm just wondering. Because from the EMPLOYEE perspective, a lot of
EMPLOYER'S are asking a heckofalot... for relatively modest
compensation.
Erika
erika at seastorm.com
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