Job Seeking Advice

May 13, 2003 at 9 am · Filed under Design

Some solid, straightforward advice from Scott Berkun at Microsoft about landing a position in any of the user-experience related positions. Many of the graduating second-year interaction design students as well as the HCI students are currently out looking around. Best of luck to them - some friends have already landed great positions, and I have no doubt that others will do the same.

On a semi-related note, I was visiting Microsoft Research a few weeks ago and went out one night with a group from Office. What they used to call a Usability Specialist or Usability Engineer they now call a Design Researcher, to better reflect the breadth of what they do. As an outsider, I was impressed by the rapport between the Interaction Designers and Design Researchers on the team - something you generally expect but don’t always see.

2 Comments

  1. andrew said,

    June 18, 2003 @ 10 am

    Interesting, those are the two job titles used at Cooper as well.

  2. Kingsley said,

    July 3, 2003 @ 6 am

    I’m from India and I’m thinking of doing an MS in HCI / Interaction Design. What does the job scene in the US look like for Interaction Designers?

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