[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] 2 full time contractor User Experience positions in NYC for Agile Partners

2008-08-11 Thread Scott Roth
Agile Partners (http://agilepartners.com) is looking for two User Experience / Usability people to help us deliver web-based solutions for our clients, which range from start-ups to some of the largest corporations in the country. The first position is a detail-oriented project manager role

[IxDA Discuss] JOB Interaction Designer NYC Recruiter Fulltime

2008-08-11 Thread Vanessa Karis
Hello Everyone, I want to make you all aware of this Interaction Design role. This is a fulltime opportunity in NYC. This is a hot job that just opened! If you are interested in this role, please contact me via telephone or email. My contact information is below. Thanks! Position De

[IxDA Discuss] Job: Senior Visual & Human Interface Designer : San Jose, CA : Cisco Systems : Full-time

2008-08-11 Thread Naveena Salla -X (nsalla - Spherion at Cisco)
COMPANY: Cisco Systems Inc., URL: www.cisco.com JOB LOCATION: San Jose, CA JOB TITLE: Senior Visual & Human Interface Designer JOB DURATION: Permanent JOB DESCRIPTION: Job Description: We are looking for an outstanding Visual and Human Interface Designer to work on NCBU's enterprise 2.0 appli

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design Specification Sites

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Ryan
There¹s been a fair amount of discussion here about documentation formats and software used to produce wireframes, prototypes, and so on. But how do people manage an entire specification? I have been using a hand-coded intranet site, controlled via subversion; but my team is growing and I¹m conside

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Testing persuasiveness

2008-08-11 Thread Nick Gassman
Can you say any more about what it is that you're trying to persuade people about? One approach would be a before-and-after test. There might be all sorts of subtle psychometric tests that could be devised, but you could just ask a propensity question on a scale before and after. Use an alternative

[IxDA Discuss] Seattle Monthly IA/UX Meetup, August 12, 7pm at Elysian Pub

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron Louie
Join us for drinks, conversation, networking, and geeking out with fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user experience designers, and other like-minded user-centered professionals and students. It's open to anyone, so bring a friend -- especially those in other local organ

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Chicago IxDA Happy Ho ur – August 13th

2008-08-11 Thread Chicago IxDA
The Chicago August happy hour is just a couple of days away! We look forward to seeing you. Just a reminder to RSVP if you haven't already. If you have any questions the day of, you can call me at 312.420.4051. Thanks! Carolyn Chandler Details: Come toss back a couple of cold drinks and talk abo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Browser tabs as application navigation

2008-08-11 Thread Jennifer Cummings
Thanks for all of your feedback. You've made some key points, and it's good to have this input. Just some further information for discussion: My team (UE) originally recommended using dynamic tabs within the page...similar to how Yahoo! Mail opens the inbox and all messages into separate tabs. The

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google Insights for Interaction Design

2008-08-11 Thread Andy Edmonds
Heh, you see the same thing in India for SEO. I bet this is the result of normalization of term frequencies across markets. India has a high degree of out-sourcing in web development and seo and I'm guessing NL has a pretty strong design community. This hypothesis made a bit more sense for I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Testing persuasiveness

2008-08-11 Thread Yohan Creemers
Robert, this sounds to me that you want to measure the user's emotion while using your app. This is a topic Marco van Hout (www.design-emotion.com) addressed in his talk at the Design by Fire conference last year. Marco and his team developed a 'layered emotion measurement tool' to measure emotions

[IxDA Discuss] Google Insights for Interaction Design

2008-08-11 Thread Yohan Creemers | Ylab
The infosthetics.com blog drew my attention to Google Insights for Search, a service that allows users to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories & time frames. I couldn't help typing in the search terms 'interaction design': http://google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=i

[IxDA Discuss] JOB Senior Interface Designer, Brighton UK, Ribot, Full Time

2008-08-11 Thread Antony Ribot
Hi fellow IxDAers, we are ribot: a crack commando unit of ideas people, based in central Brighton, UK, who focus on creating innovative User Interfaces (UI) for mobile. We're growing, working directly with some great clients, like Nokia, Microsoft, the Labs teams at Orange & Lastminute.com, and Ro