Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. I guess this past month hasn’t brought a lot that’s new, at least not in my professional or creative lives. It’s largely been about wrapping up my information architecture rotation at work, and finishing some freelance programming work in my spare time.

Today was the first day of my new rotation as a [title yet to be determined]. Seriously, the job that I’m doing right now is so new in my department that they haven’t even decided on a final job title yet. Some of ones that I like are Interaction Developer, Design Engineer, and Design Technologist. All of which basically mean that I know how to code, and know something about design as well.

My personal thought is that the role might as well be called Design Translator. Because sometimes it seems like designers and developers really are speaking 2 different languages, and my job is to know as much of each one as I can, so that I can translate between the two and help them understand each other. That’s how I see it, anyway.

I’m pretty excited about trying out this role. I’ve always been drawn to interdisciplinary work — just look at both of my college majors for proof. Something about my brain really likes being able to look at something from multiple angles at once. And it’ll be nice to finally get to use some of my programming skills, and hopefully develop them even further by practice and by studying new technologies. I started working on a little project today, just basic HTML and CSS to get myself back into practice; but the day just flew by. I think that’s a good sign.

I think that my goals for this rotation are to learn Flex, to further develop my JavaScript / AJAX skills, and to become skilled at Illustrator and Flash. (I’m self-taught in Flash, but I’m sure there’s a lot that I still don’t know.)