The Education of an e-Designer - Softcover

In THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER, fifty outstanding practitioners and policy makers in e-design present an educational framework for a discipline that has every design school across the country bustling with innovation. For design educators striving to integrate the new field and its professional perspectives into current graphic design programs, this valuable tool comes just at the right time. THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER is the first roadmap to teaching e-design, design's answer to the digital revolution that opens into such diverse and exotic career paths as game design, interactive media applications, motion graphics for film and TV, designing information kiosk displays, and shaping the user experience of e-commerce shoppers. In THE EDUCATION OF AN E-DESIGNER, educators will find everything they need to turn today's design students into versatile players in tomorrow's e-design arena. Whether educators are confronted with the task of digitalizing their classrooms, re-defining the role of the educator (a mere "software trainer"?), teaching the ABC's of e-commerce, or communicating the skills for such highly specific areas as motion design and information architecture, this unique collection of essays holds the answers.