[IxDA Discuss] The state of UI/UX employment.

2010-02-20 Thread Georgette Sulllivan
I have been reading the IXDA discussions for a couple of years, I noticed a steady increase in employment posting over the last few months. Is the increase in employment post a true reflection of an increase UI/UX employment? georgette _

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to Get People to Answer Honestly

2010-02-20 Thread Charles B. Kreitzberg
Don Habas said that " You won´t believe this, but right after writing here, I followed some links ... and ended up on havenworks.com." I love havenworks.com and use it as an example in seminars and webinars to introduce the concept of information architecture. People get it fast. Hope the site nev

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sketching before the Wireframes

2010-02-20 Thread Krystal R . Higgins
Regnard--Totally agree that it does depend on the situation. I just happen to be in a company right now where the high-level stakeholders just don't want to see sketches. Much to my chagrin, of course ;) That said, within my team (which is beyond just a design staff) we do a bunch of sketching f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The NEW platform for IxDA!

2010-02-20 Thread Joe Sokohl
A quick correction--I mistyped Shivanand's name, which is, of course, Shivanand Reddy Yerva. So sorry! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49520

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The NEW platform for IxDA!

2010-02-20 Thread shivanand reddy
Congratulations to all the Conan team members! Special thanks to Liz for all the work you put in!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49520

[IxDA Discuss] UX Field trips

2010-02-20 Thread Jason Richardson
Hi everyone, I'm looking to take our UX team on a few "field trips" this year in Northeast Ohio to visit other organization's UX teams and share methods, deliverables and anything else related to UX in a half day session. I'm aware of UX Show and Tell which is a tremendous resource and might also

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sketching before the Wireframes

2010-02-20 Thread cvestal
Personally, sketching on paper is the fastest way to capture concepts (whether layouts or processes). This can be collaborative with the stakeholders, or simply my way of taking notes and capturing the discussions during a meeting. Once the concepts have taken shape, I turn to the most adaptable

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sketching before the Wireframes

2010-02-20 Thread Dave Malouf
Are we talking about sketching as a deliverable to the client or sketching as part of a process of the designer? These are 2 very different questions. The former one depends on the client. As an ID design studio we required seeing sketching and sketch models as a deliverable. But when I was working

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sketching before the Wireframes

2010-02-20 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Regnard Raquedan wrote: > I think it depends on the situation. Ideally, wireframes should be done, but > I recently ahd a client that was really rushing things and had a tight > deadline. They prodded me to come up with a mockup that approximated the > final versio