[IxDA Discuss] What sets the 'best' interaction designers apart?

[Alder Yarrow]

The best interaction designers?

Know how to hand-code HTML or possibly other programming or UI languages.

That's the single best predictor of strong interaction design skills or
capabilities in my experience hiring and training IAs and IDs for the past 8
years.

The best interaction designers have a visceral, hands-on understanding of
how technology systems are built, and they use this knowledge to design
interactions that:

1. actually work
2. can be implemented
3. are less prone to technology driven errors
4. are documented in ways that developers can understand 

Alder

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Alder Yarrow, Founder & Principal 
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