Sounds Interesting

So, my classmates and I had to pick a career and google it. The two options we had were Content Strategist or Experience Architect, which are apparently two careers English majors and the like are qualified for. I chose Experience Architect. This is how my exploration went.

Brainstorming about what it might be:

 

Reading on Wikipedia what it is:

 

Investigating further:

 

Then I thought about it some more and came to this conclusion:

 

Honestly though, this career sounds like a millennial's dream. I looked at a few different websites, some of them academic, and they pretty much all said the same thing: experience architects use all sorts of different mediums in order to create satisfying, creative, and significant experiences for customers/users. According to Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation, 

 

"The Experience Architect is that person relentlessly focused on creating remarkable individual experiences. This person facilitates positive encounters with your organization through products, services, digital interactions, spaces, or events."

 

Basically, they can, according to Michigan State University's College of Arts & Letters, have "many types of careers in XA, including user experience architects, interaction designers, information architects, usability specialists, content strategists, visual designers, and web developers".  If you are a student at Michigan Sate, you will study "writing, design, philosophy, and computer science". How cool is that? You can be a book nerd and a techie!

 

While the careers listed above are not anything I want (not that I know of), I would definitely love to be able to use my writing and technology to create a memorable experience for another person. In a sense, that is already a reason I am an English major and want to be a writer; I want to inspire people and get them thinking while also enjoying themselves.

 

 

Sources:

 

Michigan State University: http://xa.cal.msu.edu/xa/

 

Tom Kelley: http://tenfacesofinnovation.com/stories/archives/10