Most Master's programs are two years. If you are looking on the East
coast here, definitely check out:
M.S. Interaction Design and Information Architecture -University of
Baltimore - http://iat.ubalt.edu/IDIA/
M.F.A Interaction Design - SVA - http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/
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Hey Hilary,
the University of Baltimore has a usability lab on campus. There is
some information on their site posted about it. I believe they also
allow visits to check it out so I'm sure they could answer any
questions you have or by phone/email.
http://iat.ubalt.edu/usability_lab/
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Dan,
wow great to talk to you! I actually just picked up Designing For
Interaction last month and just now started to read it-its great.
Matt,
I've actually worked with several start up companies already-helping
with visual design, UX, IA. Unfortunately they weren't able to hire
but I have been
Side note for those also looking-here are some places online worth
checking out for job opportunities. All of them have a job board with
jobs ranging from design, development, etc
twitter.com/ia_uxjobs
authentic jobs
aquent
smashing jobs
design jobs on the wall
aiga
37 signals
ixda
behance
Thanks everyone for your feedback and knowledge! I have been
freelancing a lot of visual design/front end development projects in
the last couple of months and trying to incorporate UX/IA components
to not only help create a better end result for my clients but also
help with my own portfolio.
Check out Denote - http://bit.ly/8Rtojw It just launched and is still
in beta testing but it's pretty cool.
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47726
Being just recently graduated from college, its seemingly very hard to
find an entry level/associate level job since I don't have the
experience and years required to get started. I was thinking I might
have to start with a web design/development job to get my foot in the
door and then gradually
if youre looking for a good alternative to
fireworks/visio/omnigraffle, check out balsamiq. it has a decent
template list, quick file save as .png, easily resize
windows/components, change text and allows you to link buttons,
links, whatever to show the flow of each page to page.
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