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Recruiting for year one
28 Feb 2019 by Jonathan AbbettThe first big takeaway I gleaned from The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired by Lou Adler was the difference between hiring for day one versus hiring for year one. More » -
Why the name?
27 Feb 2019 by Jonathan AbbettI remember attending my first Interaction conference in 2012. I had been an IxDA member since 2008 when I first discovered—mind blown—that interaction design was actually a thing, but my interactions with other members had been exclusively online. I flew to Dublin, entered the convention center, and was immediately struck: there are so many fancy people here. At least among the jetsetting IxDA designer cohort, the stereotype of plaid shirts and skinny jeans and horn-rimmed glasses and creatively severe haircuts held up. More »