Kent State UXD Program- Interaction Design Journaling Week 4

As a computer scientist, who turned into an instructional designer who then has turned into aspiring user experience designer there are two important concepts that have remained consistent throughout, time and space.  In particular both an instructional designer and an experience designer both care deeply about time because in both cases they want to design a space that is functional but also matches the style of the intended audience.  Both roles care deeply about creating something that marks a distinct difference in some performance metric.  A key difference is that the skills of a user experience designer always has to stretch across space and time where a instructional designer is always asked to confine their solution into a space.  This is why I've been drawn to the field of UXD. The field compels us to stretch across space and time, always looking to visualize how technology can improve the experience while remembering all of those important concepts that got us here.