Some of you may not know this, I come from a formal science background, I trained as a scientist. However, I don’t consider myself to be one, by any stretch of the imagination. I feel more at home in the design space.
Still all that background in the science arena has allowed me to apply it to the area of User Experience design. A guess it’s like a Science of UX Design.
Creativity is a strange beast. Often creativity is blocking us, running away. We often talk about it, discuss it at length and even say it can be learned. Sometimes it’s even hard to find that creative spark. However what is creativity. In reality creativity is a hard thing to define as a specific reproducible item.
Doesn’t help that creativity is different things to different people.
You see creativity can be related to the newer western principle of making products, building things for a purpose, the expression of scientific or technological innovation. Where as in older cultures, there has always been an undertone for creativity being more for personal fulfilment, private goal setting, the taking of an inner journey.
Where does the the web industry fit in the world. You would think that after 15 plus years that we would have worked that out by now and found our place. But alas this isn’t the case. I still ponder what category should we sit under in a corporate or business structure, let alone what role we should all be.
Something that really frustrates me, is when you go to fill in a survey and they list off the industry types. I’m always very confused where do I put myself, my business. Which one of the categories do I choose.
Gary Barber
I’m an independent User Experience Consultant.
I design interfaces, build information architectures, HTML prototypes, run workshops on UX design, do user research and conduct usability & accessibility testing and audits.
I can work within your existing team or as an external consultant on a contract or adhoc basis.
You can contact me via my company, radharc or just email me.
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