I know it sucks to hear this, but I get the impression you're probably younger than I am, and a lot of this uncertainty can only be sorted out with time, age, experience, etc.
Maybe a few more failures, too. It took some really annoying stuff happening for me to get completely out of film stuff (and music stuff too - I used to be really involved in local music)... and it was incredibly liberating.
One of the big things that got me going in my current direction was the book The Art of Innovation. That may only be inspiration for people into product design, UI, etc. (like me) and not necessarily for CS nerds... just a suggestion.
I may be a CS nerd, but hey I can roll with the cool kids, too ... you know. I could do RoR and I am pretty good with Photoshop that I could too design websites with rounded corners.
But seriously, I am pretty interested with design and will definitely check out your recommended reading.
Hey, I didn't mean that in terms of anything being cool or not cool, just that peoples' minds work differently. I know plenty of programmers who really don't care about design at all (even though they know it's important) and would rather shoot themselves than spend an hour redesigning an interface when they could be coding NEW FEATURES! :)
I know it sucks to hear this, but I get the impression you're probably younger than I am, and a lot of this uncertainty can only be sorted out with time, age, experience, etc.
Maybe a few more failures, too. It took some really annoying stuff happening for me to get completely out of film stuff (and music stuff too - I used to be really involved in local music)... and it was incredibly liberating.
One of the big things that got me going in my current direction was the book The Art of Innovation. That may only be inspiration for people into product design, UI, etc. (like me) and not necessarily for CS nerds... just a suggestion.