Sr. User/Design Researcher / Information Architect Specialist
User Experience Designer
AS & AA
Synopsis of Program (Cont’d.)
Education—Credentials—
Professional Qualifications
Additional Information
Undergraduate DegreeSchool of Fine, Applied, and Communication Arts
AS & AA Focus
Major/Emphasis:We are living in an information society—surrounded by an ever-increasing barrage of words, images and sounds. The role of the graphic designer is to shape this information in a meaningful way, visualizing and communicating ideas in the most engaging manner possible.
The Graphic Design major was created to provide designers with a strong foundation in the fundamental aspects of the designer’s art; internship successfully completed.
From this program, I concentrated on the fundamentals of graphic design and graphic communications, typography, branding, layout. Extending into design research, brainstorming, design ideation and planning, drawing, prepress production, Adobe softwares, other softwares, extensive graphic design and communications projects, working with real clients on real-world projects, and project-design management.
I did a very robust vocational training program at CCSF, in a computerized (Mac) environment, which prepared designers for working at design firms, and project/product management positions.
The program teaches designers to be design savvy, creative, diligent, forthcoming, professional, and productive. Working on real-world design projects prepares one for working in the real world, since meeting deadlines and working with clients professionally is required. Because it was a vocational training program in graphic design and typography (prepress production, printing, press checks, finishing, multiple softwares), hands-on skills are immediately learned and put into practice, working with clients.
AS & AA Post Graduation
After graduating from the CCSF program, I was accepted to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); management program. Also, I spent about 3-plus years at CSSF, before going to the university (approximately 80 units; academic standing: good standing; additional standing: dean’s list).
Though I went to the university in San Francisco, it better met my academic needs and already established career path of graphic design and information architecture. I was honored by the fact that I have been accepted into a few Ivy League universities, including Brown University.
The university in San Francisco had a more flexible academic and vocational training program, including established articulation agreements. It enabled me to do a better well-rounded-individualized Information Architect (IA) and design major, in my chosen career path at SFSU, extending into user experience design, and project/product management.
AS & AA Campus
The AS & AA program at City College of San Francisco provided great courses—very specific to-the-point-relevant curricula—for doing:
Graphic design research, graphic communications, graphic design, typography, design and layout, color theory, drawing, Adobe softwares, prepress production, finishing, management, printing, and graphic design internships.
I enjoyed doing all my projects and working with many excellent Professors (many of my fine Professors were alumni of the California College of the Arts, Graphic Design Department).
Portfolio
◼ PublicationsCollege Accreditation
Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC-ACSCU)◼ DIPLOMA
Steven Heitman
IA Design & Usability
Sr. User/Design Researcher
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User Experience Designer
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Technical Writer
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Project/Product Manager
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