Future Job Oppurtunities

I have always been attracted to beautiful things, and as I have grown older I have become more, and more critical of how things are designed. From ordinary household items to computers I tend to become frustrated if their design is not intuitive or attractive. I have found that these general principles for good design hold true:

• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

These same principles are used by prominent designer Jonathan Ive and architect Ray Kappe. I feel these principles should be taken into consideration more often when beginning to design a new product or service such as a website. Too often I come across sloppily implemented features in a product or service that makes the user beg the question why said company did not execute on the final product.

In this regard, my frustration, or perfectionist attitude lends me toward website and general graphic design. I like to believe that I have a rather decent eye for design but understand there is room for learning and refinement. Many job listings in the field require a minimum of 3 years experience or more depending on the company or position. Other positions, in said field, require a longer tenure. Such as this job as a senior web designer for CBS Interactive which requires 15 years of experience; however, that is most likely due to the managerial duties associated with being the senior designer. Other prestigious job listings could be found for companies such as a listing for the popular search engine Ask.com which again wanted 3 years experience for a UI web designer, with web 2.0 experience. It seems that experience is as esteemed in the design field as in any. It is also presumed that a portfolio of work in this field is highly valued and considered while looking over potential applications; one would also imagine it to be an important factor in breaking into the industry.