The role of the interaction designer as event photographer

What many people fail to understand about the joy I receive from being the event photographer at parties and in many ways this provides me with the legal precedence I need in order to build a real photo agency.

Interaction designers study the way that people relate to device technology, we study the anthropological implications of new technology and the very nature of user consent licensing of such technologies. Many of the themes you’ll see in some of the photo collections I build have much to do with capturing people in their most natural state of human activity, doing things that are a reflection of what they consider to be their real selves living their best life.

The first thing you learn as an interaction designer at Apple is how to observe juxtapositions of people using device technology in photos in a way that tells a story that can be translated into real words and tangible observations in order to learn how to draw better conclusions about what features may need to be designed next or what human problems may be needing to be solved for that hadn’t previously been considered.

It’s how we design new products.

When you are stuck at a desk all day as a designer you need inspiration and constant reminders about why it is you chose a career path that would be entirely built around solving design problems for human beings and human nature. When you are surrounded by people in stuffy work environments who are at each others throats all day or secretly loathe each other and their jobs you need to know how to plunge yourself into environments where humanity is going to inspire you again and remind you about why you became a designer to begin with.

In this sense my role as a designer is entirely reliant in my ability to actualize real human interaction in real settings and I find that my design work suffers when I am without this source of inspiration.