[IxDA Discuss] Social Network Open Source Platform - Recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Thomas Greenough
I am looking for a Social Networking Platform (LAMP preferably) - Open Source would be ideal, which will allow the user to see a specific template once they login, dependant upon the domain they align themselves to during sign-up. The user chooses an email username, which is then attached to one o

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: User Experience Designer, Blue Coat Systems, Waterloo, ON, Canada

2010-01-06 Thread Melissa Bernais
User Experience Designer Blue Coat Systems Canada – Waterloo, Ontario The Company Blue Coat Systems is the technical leader in application delivery networking. Blue Coat offers an application delivery network infrastructure that optimizes and secures the flow of information to any user, on any n

[IxDA Discuss] Job - User Experience Designer w/ software, desktop or mobile/device exp - Recruiter - Close to Chicago(100 miles)

2010-01-06 Thread Veena Gowthamchand
The User Experience Designer is responsible for creating the consumer experience for the next generation of consumer electronics. They will help lead efforts to understand emerging trends, seek out real-life insights, conceive user interface design solutions, and assure uncompromising usability.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Search Results Pagination (top & bottom?)

2010-01-06 Thread William Brall
Pay EXTRA close attention to what you are paginating. Sometimes a big-ol-list of items page after page is the wrong fit. In the app I am working on, for example, there is a big old list of all the articles released in the last forever. The obvious thing to do was to paginate them into 10 or 20 item

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flyout or collapsible navigation?

2010-01-06 Thread William Brall
Important thing to remember: Forcing items into a heading they don't fit under is worse then having no headings at all. Also, items can be in more than one heading, really. If you have too many items to do that, well, perhaps you have too many items? Maybe your app should be broken into a suite of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User cookie authentication vs. Security

2010-01-06 Thread William Brall
Interesting side note, at work a few days ago a co-worker went to log into their bank. When they went to the log in page of the fresh and new bank site, it saw the cookie from the old site and logged him in. As someone else. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Post

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Strategist - Advomatic - NYC

2010-01-06 Thread Julie Blitzer
We are hiring another Strategist here at Advomatic. This is a great position for someone with business/sales experience in web development looking to do some IA (for major non-profit organizations), but perhaps not yet ready for a full time IA/IxD gig. http://www.advomatic.com/jobs Advomati

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you sell UX?

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Dunn
I'm in the process of ramping up a UX consultancy shop right now, and we're approaching a lot of smaller shops and offering ourselves as a resource. We've already established a relationship with one and so far so good. We're keen on this model as it lets us focus on providing UX services without f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Expression/Sketchflow workshops in Portland or Seattle?

2010-01-06 Thread David Shaw
Hi George, There's a ton of training out there for the more programmatical aspects, but not a whole lot for true UX practitioners (I'm also in Portland BTW). I attended the Silverlight Tour back in August ( https://agilitrain.com/Workshop/Schedule/Silverlight_Tour_Workshop) and thought it was pre

[IxDA Discuss] How do you sell UX?

2010-01-06 Thread Justin Davis
For those out there who work as freelancers or standalone UX agencies, what does your sales process look like? Is it primarily selling to the companies who own the web properties, attempting to convince them of the need for better UX, or is it more strategic partnerships with development shops?

[IxDA Discuss] Expression/Sketchflow workshops in Portland or Seattle?

2010-01-06 Thread Reiswig, George
Hi, all, I've been through a fair number of the online video tutorials, but nothing substitutes for hands-on training where you can ask the questions that the tutorials assume you know the answer to. But I'm having a hard time finding any classes or workshops for this. Are any of you aware of

[IxDA Discuss] [Plug] IxDA Discount to Search Patterns Webinar (with free book)

2010-01-06 Thread Jared Spool
Hi Everyone, With the recent discussion of patterns for results pagination (thanks Paul Sherman!), I wanted to make sure everyone knew about our upcoming UIE Virtual Seminar on the subject. WHAT: Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences WHO: Peter Morville

[IxDA Discuss] Invitation to Boston Interactions Holiday Party

2010-01-06 Thread Boston IxDA
Apologies if you've received this invite from one of the other groups organising this years holiday party. With that said we're please pleased to invite you to our 2009/2010 Boston Interactions Holiday Party on Wednesday, January 20, 6:00 – 10:00 PM at the Red Fez in Boston’s South End. The party

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User cookie authentication vs. Security

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Knaddison
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Devin A.Brown wrote: > I work for a very well-known publishing / corporate site that > attracts a high number of C-level global visitors.  Our Security IT > department has has asked us to change our login procedures to > auto-log out user after 30 minutes (like a ban

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User cookie authentication vs. Security

2010-01-06 Thread Dana Chisnell
On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Devin A.Brown wrote: Hi, I work for a very well-known publishing / corporate site that attracts a high number of C-level global visitors. Our Security IT department has has asked us to change our login procedures to auto-log out user after 30 minutes (like a bank)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User cookie authentication vs. Security

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mclaughlin
As I am sure you are aware, there are different levels of any of saving info. Does the login screen need to be blank when a person is logged out (either by choice or by system) or can there be trace information left? Example... When returning to the login page: - the person sees their name and p

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flyout or collapsible navigation?

2010-01-06 Thread Sakshi
Thanks Weixi. Jeff and Nancy for your replies. We were leaning towards going with collapsible/tree type navigation over flyouts for the reasons that you all stated. Your replies did confirm our direction. Thanks again! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted fro

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Front-end Engineer with UX Sensibility at SocialFeet in New York, NY

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Weiksner
SocialFeet.com is a seed-funded startup in NYC that helps online retailers drive sales through social networks. Our beta product (called "EchoSales") prompts people to share their purchases at checkout to Facebook and Twitter. Good bye, interruptive advertising…hello, product referrals! As we expa

[IxDA Discuss] Twitter list of IxD10 attendees

2010-01-06 Thread Tori Breitling
Get to know your peeps prior to the conference and make those chats over the buffet (in the hall, at the bar) more fun! http://twitter.com/Tori/ixd10-attendees This list was made from the Interaction10 crowdvine site. If I've missed you send me a message @tori I'll continue to update it according

[IxDA Discuss] User cookie authentication vs. Security

2010-01-06 Thread Devin A . Brown
Hi, I work for a very well-known publishing / corporate site that attracts a high number of C-level global visitors. Our Security IT department has has asked us to change our login procedures to auto-log out user after 30 minutes (like a bank) as opposed to never auto-expiring a login authenticat