[Sigia-l] UX/Graphic Designer w/ Search Expertise NYC
"Sasso, Matt" <[email protected]>
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Looking for a UX/Graphic designer with strong Search experience skills (NYC) Short gig with lot's of potential Need a UX architect/Designer with good user experience and graphic skills on a Search based data centric application to: -Refine the UX architecture -Design the graphic interface -Work with Product and Technology team members in an agile environment I will expect to see relevant work. Looking for a fast starter and a real pro. Contact: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Sigia-l Digest, Vol 76, Issue 12 Send Sigia-l mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Sigia-l digest..." Searchable list archive: http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ Today's Topics: 1. Re: the role of IAs in Data Journalism? (Martin Belam) 2. Re: the role of IAs in Data Journalism? (eric scheid) 3. USER RESEARCHER/LONDON/9 DAYS/ ASAP (Ben Clarfelt) 4. USER RESEARCHER/SURREY/?32,000-?35,000 (30min from London Waterloo) (Ben Clarfelt) 5. USER EXPERIENCE/LONDON/?350-?450 (pushing the boundaries of digital) (Ben Clarfelt) 6. [PLUG] UIE Book Club: 2/1 - Robert Hoekman's Designing the Obvious 2nd Edition (Jared Spool) 7. Re: Real World UI Design Failure (darin sullivan) 8. Re: Real World UI Design Failure (Jonathan Baker-Bates) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:51:03 +0000 From: Martin Belam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] the role of IAs in Data Journalism? To: SIG Information Architecture <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 [also decloaks lurking] As Information Architect at The Guardian who has worked on a couple of the things you have mentioned, I couldn't help but comment. I've summed up your debate on my blog and added a few thoughts of my own, which boil down to... "I haven't particularly been involved directly with analysing any data for journalistic purposes, although I do generally get some oversight of tools like the COINS explorer or MPs expenses tool before they go live. This has chiefly been in an advisory capacity, where I'm most likely to point out one or two tweaks to the interface that will improve usability, than raise huge issues about the structure of the data. Where I've had more impact is in thinking about the way that users can find and explore data sets for themselves, and I've previously blogged for guardian.co.uk about the information architecture behind the World Government Data store - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/aug/10/government-data-info rmation-architecture A lot of journalists are only just getting used to having to work alongside computer programmers - let alone the more esoteric digital disciplines like information architecture or user experience. For me, job titles are unimportant - it is all about having the skillset of organising information, the willingness to collaborate, and the ability to empathise with the end user or reader. Journalists show that empathy when they synthesize complex stories in a way that their readers can understand. Information architects show that empathy when they arrange complex information structures in a way that users can easily comprehend, navigate, and find what they want. They can definitely be a natural fit for datajournalism purposes." http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2011/01/information-architects-datajou rnalism.php Martin ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:08:02 +1100 From: eric scheid <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] the role of IAs in Data Journalism? To: SIGIA <[email protected]> Message-ID: <C9524D02.15B16%[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" On 11/1/11 10:51 AM, "Martin Belam" <[email protected]> wrote: > For me, job titles are unimportant - it is all about having the > skillset of organising information, the willingness to collaborate, > and the ability to empathise with the end user or reader. Journalists > show that empathy when they synthesize complex stories in a way that > their readers can understand. Information architects show that empathy > when they arrange complex information structures in a way that users > can easily comprehend, navigate, and find what they want. They can > definitely be a natural fit for datajournalism purposes." Journalists are users too, which brings us back to item (1) on my short list > 1) helping the original publishing of the data This is an area we could do more with, a lot more. There's likely to be many pitfalls yet to be discovered (or more pertinently, re-discovered), and even new techniques, methods, or principles which advantage the world. e. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:20:56 -0000 From: "Ben Clarfelt" <[email protected]> Subject: [Sigia-l] USER RESEARCHER/LONDON/9 DAYS/ ASAP To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <005301cbb19a$c3504a10$49f0de30$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Calling all experienced User Researchers. I currently have a nice 9 day contract for a leader level User Research consultant. You will be required to do the upfront user research, analysis and report writing which will then be fed back to their huge client. Need to be passionate and confident to lead and present to clients. Location; London Day Rate; ?350-?400 Start Date; ASAP (Contract to start on Thursday13th January for 9 days.) If this sounds of interest to you then please send your CV to [email protected] Thanks ;) zebrapeople120x90 Ben Clarfelt Digital Consultant t: 0207 729 4771 m: 07967 313466 <http://www.zebrapeople.com/> www.zebrapeople.com Follow us on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/zebrapeople> @zebrapeople Thanks to all who participated and attended UX People to make it a success! Book your tickets for our next UX People on 26 November 2010- <http://www.uxpeople.co.uk/autumn2010> uxpeople.co.uk/autumn2010 Zebra People now offers a ?300 referral fee upon the successful placement of candidates. P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to! The contents of this mail are intended exclusively for the Addressee. If you are not the addressee you must not read use or disclose the email contents; you should notify us immediately, by clicking reply, and delete this email. Zebra People monitor e-mails to ensure its systems operate effectively and to minimise the risk of viruses. Whilst it has taken reasonable steps to scan this mail it does not accept liability for any viruses that may be contained in it. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 4797 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.asis.org/mailman/private/sigia-l/attachments/20110111/b9d1ca 32/attachment-0001.gif ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:32:37 -0000 From: "Ben Clarfelt" <[email protected]> Subject: [Sigia-l] USER RESEARCHER/SURREY/?32,000-?35,000 (30min from London Waterloo) To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <008e01cbb1ad$28718d20$7954a760$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" User Research Role User Researcher required for one of the leading international tourism and leisure brands. You will be sitting within the User Experience Team and will be doing a pure research role. Opportunity to work across 14 massive brands. You will be required to do a broad range of user research from up front lab based user testing, Ethnographic research, UX modelling, focus groups, online surveys, usability testing and lab based testing to name just a few. My client has an enormous customer reach so it is vital that you can really grasp an understanding of their customer basis. Looking for you to understand how a customer uses their website, mobile applications. Will be required to do the user research, analyse results, report writing and present findings back. Looking for people who have around 2-3 years User Research experience. Happy to look at people who have been doing all round UX role with an element of research in it but now looking to focus purely in research area. Very exciting time to join the company as you will be their first perm user research hire. Major opportunity to make the role your own, grow the position etc. Need to be passionate, confident enough to work within the UX team and make the research role your own. Location; Surrey (30 min by train from Waterloo) Salary; ?32,000-?35,000 To find out more or apply please send your CV to [email protected] zebrapeople120x90 Ben Clarfelt Digital Consultant t: 0207 729 4771 m: 07967 313466 <http://www.zebrapeople.com/> www.zebrapeople.com Follow us on Twitter: @zebrapeople <http://www.twitter.com/zebrapeople> Thanks to all who participated and attended UX People to make it a success! Book your tickets for our next UX People on 26 November 2010- uxpeople.co.uk/autumn2010 <http://www.uxpeople.co.uk/autumn2010> Zebra People now offers a ?300 referral fee upon the successful placement of candidates. P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to! The contents of this mail are intended exclusively for the Addressee. 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Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 4797 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.asis.org/mailman/private/sigia-l/attachments/20110111/02aa55 6d/attachment-0001.gif ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:42:07 -0000 From: "Ben Clarfelt" <[email protected]> Subject: [Sigia-l] USER EXPERIENCE/LONDON/?350-?450 (pushing the boundaries of digital) To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <020c01cbb280$08a06b00$19e14100$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Urgent requirement for a great User Experience contractor. Starting ASAP, opportunity to work for a top international award winning agency. Current project requires you to work for one of the coolest most recognised brands out there. Working across a wide range of multi platform devices, helpful if you have any games experience but not a necessity. Full UCD lifecycle required, need to be an idea thinker, great if you can bring ideas to the table. Key your passionate, confident in presenting to clients. This is truly a company who really push the boundaries of digital. Location; London Day Rate; ?350-?450 Contract Length; 1 month to 3 months (Extensions etc) If this sounds like you then please send your CV to [email protected] or give me a call on 0207 729 4771 zebrapeople120x90 Ben Clarfelt Digital Consultant t: 0207 729 4771 m: 07967 313466 <http://www.zebrapeople.com/> www.zebrapeople.com Follow us on Twitter: @zebrapeople <http://www.twitter.com/zebrapeople> Thanks to all who participated and attended UX People to make it a success! Book your tickets for our next UX People on 26 November 2010- uxpeople.co.uk/autumn2010 <http://www.uxpeople.co.uk/autumn2010> Zebra People now offers a ?300 referral fee upon the successful placement of candidates. P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to! The contents of this mail are intended exclusively for the Addressee. 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Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 4797 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.asis.org/mailman/private/sigia-l/attachments/20110112/53f3da 63/attachment-0001.gif ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:44:20 -0500 From: Jared Spool <[email protected]> Subject: [Sigia-l] [PLUG] UIE Book Club: 2/1 - Robert Hoekman's Designing the Obvious 2nd Edition To: "[email protected] l" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 [Apologies for any cross posting.] UIE Book Club: Designing the Obvious, Second Edition by Robert Hoekman Jr. Tuesday, February 1 - 3pm ET / 2pm CT / 1pm MT / Noon PT Join me in February, as I kick off the 2011 UX Book Club with the talented and funny Robert Hoekman, Jr. The 2nd edition of Designing the Obvious just showed up in my mailbox and, wow, I?m excited. The first edition was a great book -- so great that I kept lending my copy out and not getting back. I think I bought 5 of them. Robert?s first edition hit on critical topics for creating great designs. In the second edition, Robert?s expanded the principles and examples to help you with today?s design problems. I?m can?t wait to read this edition and talk with Robert about it. Please join me on February 1 with your thoughts and questions on the second edition of his classic. How does this work? Step #1: Reserve your spot for the UIE Book Club (it?s free!): http://uiebookclub0211.eventbrite.com/ Step #2: Get a copy of Robert?s Designing the Obvious (Get your copy today at Amazon.com: http://j.mp/gBGdhQ ) Step #3: Read the book. Write down your questions. Step #4: Join us on February 1 at http://5by5.tv/ Step #5: Ask Robert your questions. Thanks to the good folks at Aquent for helping us make all this happen: http://aquent.us/ Sign up for the UIE Book Club: http://uiebookclub0211.eventbrite.com/ We?ll keep you posted with the details you?ll need as the event gets closer. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: [email protected] p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: @jmspool ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:28:38 -0800 From: darin sullivan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Real World UI Design Failure To: SIG Information Architecture <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks Jonathan... That's great stuff and the primary reason that I've continued following discussions on this list :) I really enjoy seeing your comparison between "pinned" and "normal" headers, and learning about test results. Kudos to you for sharing that, and congrats on having management support for maintaining artifacts that document design rationale, and failures. Research into cognitive psychology, such as the "Silencing" work that you reference from Vision Sciences Laboratory, is tremendously instructive when considering employing certain design tactics to improve usability, or increased usage of product features through heightened prominence. Would you please comment on how your group has proceeded to increase use of results sorting since this attempt? One observation that our own testing has shown to be useful when presenting sort options to users is to have those options "reside" with the results. In your case here (as shown in your screenshots), this would mean that the sort menu would share the white background of the results and appear to be on its level, rather than appear in the blue background of the header, which is elevated over results (made more near to users by the drop shadow) and on the same level as the loyalty program. Thanks again for your post. Cheers! On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Baker-Bates < [email protected]> wrote: > I like to remind myself that the default mode of design is failure. Quite > often though, failure that can be hard to isolate or pin reasons to. But if > anyone's interested, I've written up some stuff about what I think is quite > a clear cut failure of mine: > > http://webtorque.org/?p=1141 > > In summary: I thought we might be able to achieve a "polite" (ie > noticeable, > but not intrusive) prominence to part of a search results UI by using a > pinned header. However, I've now found strong indications that I was wrong. > The good news is that I *might* have found a clue in the form of some > recent > tired party research about out why I was wrong: > http://visionlab.harvard.edu/silencing/ > > Incidentally, here at hotels.com, we log major assumptions about our > website > in a database (in this case the assumption is "Pinning items to the screen > increases their visual prominence") and then attach research and other > findings to them that may strengthen or weaken those assumptions over time. > This allows designers to keep their heads above the raging tide of data > that > our analysts pump out, as well as our own qualitative research, and that of > our Expedia big brothers and sisters. > > Jonathan > > PS: I'm recruiting for 2 permanent IA/UX positions. Do you have at least 5 > years UX design experience, preferably with some ecommerce in there? Would > like to join a UX team of 12 in London's Covent Garden working on what is > probably one of the most well-resourced commercial websites in the world? > Then send me your CV because I'm having a hell of a time finding the right > people. > ------------ > 2011 IA Summit > March 30 - April 3, 2011 > Pre Conference Seminars: March 30-31 > IA Summit: April 1-3 > Hyatt Regency Convention Center > Denver, CO > ----- > When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. > *Plain text, please; NO Attachments > > Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ > ________________________________________ > Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] > Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l > ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:43:04 +0000 From: Jonathan Baker-Bates <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Real World UI Design Failure To: SIG Information Architecture <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 12 January 2011 20:28, darin sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jonathan... That's great stuff and the primary reason that I've > continued following discussions on this list :) > > Thanks - and thanks also to you for replying! After a blizzard of emails recently on this list about the conduct of the list itself, but until now not a peep amount my posting, I was beginning to wonder whether information design was now too boring to talk about! > Would you please comment on how your group has proceeded to increase use of > results sorting since this attempt? > We originally had the sort drop-down above the filters on the left hand side (not shown on my screenshots). The hypothesis here, somewhat supported by observation, was that people often think about sorting and filtering as very similar things. So we "zoned" the sort above the filters thinking that people would discover it more easily. But usage went down - quite possibly for the reason you give. So we put them to the right as you see them today. So far the test results haven't reached statistical significance so I can't say if that has restored their usage yet. If they are still down (results will be mine in about a week), I'll try your idea of zoning it with the search results at the same visual "level". In fact we can try that anyway in a bid to get to the "local maximum". As an aide that may be interesting to those who have not had the luxury of designing using a mutli-variate testing platform, I can say it's a bit of a mixed blessing. The obvious Achilles heel of bugs invalidating test results (which happens rather a lot when you're testing complex UI that deal with complex back-ends) is one thing, but the issue of interpretation can also be a gigantic problem. This gets exponentially worse the more granular stuff you test, as the more fraught subsequent design decisions become, and secondary maintenance issues start to proliferate (we recently conducted 8 weeks of lab studies, during which time the site changed underneath us several times). I could tell stories of the most Byzantine nature imaginable when you're looking at stats while running 20+ concurrent tests in 40 countries, all reporting pretty different results across several metrics! But on the other hand, the occasional universally clear result of a test can sure settle any arguments :-) Would that were a more frequent event is all I can say! 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