Growth can be a fun and rewarding experience design

Understand your learning characteristics

A good interactive designer often understands the special way of learning things and makes good use of it, so it has more efficient and obvious growth.

Learning and growing is not a strange thing, everyone has their own story. Try to think about your behavior and habits of learning other things. With some finishing, you can gradually understand what kind of learner you are and try to get your team to know and support you. This can be the first step in understanding how to grow. As a design team leader, but also to learn more about the learning characteristics of students, together to create a more suitable learning environment.

for example:

A designer's learning characteristic is ...

I have no way to read my book or theory and my design point of view, I am an interactive designer from secondary school.

Not fun, unfriendly learning environment, I can not learn.

Understand their own learning needs

A good interactive designer at a growing stage has a clearer idea of ​​what needs to be learned.

About growth, everyone has different goals, motivation, ideas. Many are growing, ready to learn the designer, it is easy because too many opportunities and possibilities of imitation or lost. A clear understanding of one's own learning needs can help to favor more structured and efficient learners. In the meantime, as you learn about your features and needs, you can quickly find the entry point as new technologies once again impact the area of ​​interactivity and get started quickly.

Give some examples of how to define your needs:

I need a more diversified source of information to make me a more interactive designer who understands trends and values.

I need a more convenient way of learning so that my lateral ability can be effectively improved.

Try different learning styles and environments

New learning methods and the environment change with each passing day, by trying different learning styles and environments, you can constantly reflect on your own preferences and needs. More important is to use a more comprehensive perspective to experience more natural growth in this area. For example, playing more apps is just one type of learning, important but not the only way to grow.

For some examples:

Regular visits to creator or hacker space, feel different ideas, needs and energy to change the world.

Try writing from the copywriting, advertising scripts to describe a period of experience, please friends from different areas to your opinion.

Develop appropriate learning strategies and principles

After understanding your needs, your preferences, and the possibilities, define principles that will help you make your decision when problems arise. Make what you really want to pursue. And take the time to develop learning strategies and try to implement.

For some examples:

Goal: Better communicate better with different teams at issue points to get better outcomes.

Strategy 1: Through writing to enhance rational thinking and communication skills

Action # 1: Write an essay every morning to share an observation, idea, or question related to interaction design.

Action 2: read 2 articles a day, and sort out three priorities and one question.

Continuous reflection process of learning, feedback and value

When implementing your study plan, keep looking to see if there is some change, get some small or new problems, and try to develop interest and positive energy, rather than a point of self-gratification. Record, you can make you better growth. At the same time it will not insist on perseverance.

For some examples:

When I deal with a similar interaction problem, can I understand the related factors more effectively, and why?

Do I have a different opinion through these studies? How can I make different decisions?

Continued to their motivation and reward

Learning is like a sport that gets "grown up." This movement requires a suitable pace and periodic rewards to ensure a sustainable momentum. These learning motivation may come from the team, the environment, competitions, competitions, a user's identity, these motivation is not insisted, but to create a natural atmosphere and rhythm.

For some examples:

Some good interaction designers tend to take a while to completely leave design, teach books, go to different cultural experiences and travel. Back to the design, can bring many good changes.

Expand your mentor group

Unlike trying out different learning styles and environments, you talk to different people and try to think about what you want to learn from those people.

For some examples:

I learned ______ from ______ can be ______ and not just _______.

These all play an interesting role in the development of different interaction designers, and allow us to look at growth and learning from a different angle. But more importantly, the interactive designer may not necessarily "grow" to another better "interactive designer."