(interaction) Designer

Since several weeks ago. my position at work has been shifted from a software engineer to an (interaction) designer. My new role at the company is to create an interactivity of the softwares that my company develop, beside designing the website and the application. It’s quite weird actually, because first I dont have any design background or whatsoever, second… I learnt everything autodidactly (it’s that even a word??). Thanks to this guy who thought me loads about xhtml and css.

I started to become an interaction design at my company when I have to develop a software, at that time all of the designers are busy with other stuff, and I can’t ask them to create another design at that time. So I brave my self to came up with my own design for the software. Since then, several guys at the office has asked me to built an interfaces for different project. Started with Levende Herinneringen website and CMS interfaces. Sooner, I get more design stuff rather than to develop a software, and that’s how I ended up with this position.

One thing I’ve learnt from this is that it doesnt matter where you came from or what you did before, as long as you keep studying and want to learn new things, you can be anything you want in life.