After three years of living on a student schedule, I have finally returned to the working world and gotten a "real job." I eased into it, though, working two days a week for a month before officially starting last week.

The company is called Memento, Inc, and we serve the banking industry, building software that helps banks detect fraudulent activity - both internally and on behalf of their customers. But really what our software does is recognize patterns in complex information. My job as an Interaction Designer is to make sure those patterns are easily visible to fraud analysts and investigators when they sit down and open up our software, as well as ensuring that the visual design gets out of our users way and lets them do what they're really good at.

Mostly its been fun because it combines a lot of the technical things I was already doing at Network Solutions with all the graphic things I was doing in graduate school. And, of course, I get to do silly things like design animated gifs: