Candidate:Nathan Robertson

Got a great email this morning from a new candidate!   Nathan decided to join the party and make his mark right away.... Check it out and tell me what you think!

John

Hi John,

My name is Nathan Robertson and I am applying for the UX Advisor role at Microsoft. Whenever analyzing user experience it is important to not only ask how the user behaves, but also why. While studying Product Design & Strategic Creativity at the Ontario College of Art & Design, there is one thing that is clear at every step of the design process, you can not change human behaviour, but you can control it through design.

By understanding human behaviour, you can analyze a situation not only from the aspect of the individual user, but also as a human being. This is the process of strategic creativity. I have been trained in wide range of design methodologies that include interaction design, human factors & user-centered, and product design; as well as emerging fields like strategic branding, biomimicry, flow experience.

To measure the potential of the Microsoft Expressions suite, the user experience advisor needs to understand how and why the technology is causing the user to behave in that way -- in order to create meaningful experiences when the user is engaged with it.

To find out more about the emerging field of strategic creativity, please follow the link for a short presentation. https://www.bealcentre.org/aboutus/strategic_creativity.php#SlideFrame_1

Attached is my resume, and follow here to my video presentation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA9iOOTe638

I look forward to meeting you in the future,

Nathan Robertson