On November 22nd (which was my birthday), Professor Pannafino and some of his students were able to put together this really cool conference about different types of interactive design. They were able to get four speakers together for this conference and they all have extremely different backgrounds: Melissa Zane who is the Vice President at Godfrey, Kent Eisenhuth who is a UX Art Director at D3 Infragistics, Teresa Wagner who is a Web Designer at Neo-Pangea, and Vinoad Senguttuvan who is a Data Scientist at High 5 Games. To me, Zane and Wagner were the two that interested me the most. Zane told us a lot about leadership skills and techniques on how to approach creative designs. I felt like I learned valuable information from her. Wagner seemed like a sweetheart and very knowledgable about using space creatively in effective ways. Since she is a web designer, its very important to understand that you can't put a lot of information/graphics within the given space but you need enough for the viewer to not feel disappointed and cut short about the design/information. It was a great experience to be able to have people from extremely different backgrounds of the design world. I do wish that I was able to see more of their work and have them talk about said work like the process, inspiration, what the client wanted and what they did to make the design better, etc. But, overall, it was really cool to have those different backgrounds of design and have a bit more understanding for the fields that the speakers are currently in.
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