Go over Ed’s and wish him good luck on his career change.
On Monday, I start my new full-time position with Blog Talk Radio as Political Director and will provide full-time commentary through my blog and my new daily BTR show. The phrase “dream come true” is hackneyed, but in this case the cliché applies.
BTR is making a good investment!
Changing careers can feel like stepping off the end of a dock with a blindfold on. I’ve changed careers twice (like Ed, now); I was lucky the first time, in that going from radio to technical writing was a huge step up in pay and stability. Changing from that into what I do now – Human Experience Design – was much more a leap of faith, since it was a market that hadn’t really taken off in the Twin Cities when I made the jump (although, gratifyingly, it has in the nine years since).
Jumping from service management to Blog Talk Radio, of course, is a huge leap of faith, but Ed’s the kind of guy who’ll make it work.
But everyone wish him good luck anyway!
Mitch said; “Human Experience Design”
What the hell is that? Is it Hendrix-related?
Yes. I design psychotropic drugs.
Nice!
Wiki offers this:
“In its commercial context, experience design is driven by consideration of the “moments of engagement” — touchpoints — between people and brands, and the ideas,emotions, and memories that these moments create. Commercial experience design is also known as experiential marketing, customer experience design, and brand experience. Experience designers are often employed to identify existing touchpoints and create new ones, and then to score the arrangement of these touchpoints so that they produce the desired outcome.”
Holy shit, Mitch – you’ve convinced someone to pay you to do whatever it is that’s supposed to mean? I thought the guys who get paid to re-arrange your furniture were geniuses, but this is amazing!
Well, HXD is my current title. If you’re going to look on Wikipedia (whose definitions of these things are usually controlled by people with the most academic possible versions of these things), look under “User-centered design”.
Mitch, in your design travels, have you run across Dean Barker? He was in the same MSSE program with me, which I completed last summer. He’s with Human Factors International.
So is this Donald Norman fellow kind of like L. Ron Hubbard for you guys?
Not Hubbard.
I’m thinking Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Or P.T. Barnum, depending on your point of view.