From mads at interaction-design.org Tue Nov 12 17:36:29 2013 From: mads at interaction-design.org (Mads Soegaard - Interaction-Design.org) Date: 12 Nov 2013 22:36:29 -0000 Subject: [Sigia-l] Open Access Books on Design, UX, Usability, and HCI Message-ID: <20131112223629.6404.qmail@qs3530.pair.com> Dear all, It is my great pleasure to share the most recent Open Access textbooks from the Interaction Design Foundation: "Emotion and Website Design" by renowned Professor Dianne Cyr: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/emotion_and_website_design.html "User Interface Design Adaptation" by renowned Professor Fabio Paterno: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/user_interface_design_adaptation.html "Human-Robot Interaction" by renowned Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/human-robot_interaction.html If you want some background info on our Foundation you can read the ultra-short intro here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2013/09/24/meet-the-danish-ngo-thats-taking-open-source-education-global/ --- Want to help us (and yourself)? --- If you would like to support our free and Open Access textbook initiatives, you should consider becoming a paying member of our Foundation. Then you will have access to our online courses (http://www.interaction-design.org/courses ), our mentoring program, and lots more. Please see http://www.interaction-design.org/join for more info. Please forward this email if you want to help us educate the world on design through Open Access educational materials ! Have a wonderful day! Warmest regards, Mads Soegaard From acdowd at acdowd-designs.com Tue Nov 12 18:36:48 2013 From: acdowd at acdowd-designs.com (Angela Dowd) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:36:48 -0800 Subject: [Sigia-l] Open Access Books on Design, UX, Usability, and HCI In-Reply-To: <20131112223629.6404.qmail@qs3530.pair.com> References: <20131112223629.6404.qmail@qs3530.pair.com> Message-ID: thanks you're awesome! Angela On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Mads Soegaard - Interaction-Design.org wrote: > > Dear all, > > It is my great pleasure to share the most recent Open Access textbooks from the Interaction Design Foundation: > > "Emotion and Website Design" by renowned Professor Dianne Cyr: > http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/emotion_and_website_design.html > > "User Interface Design Adaptation" by renowned Professor Fabio Paterno: > http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/user_interface_design_adaptation.html > > "Human-Robot Interaction" by renowned Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn: > http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/human-robot_interaction.html > > > If you want some background info on our Foundation you can read the ultra-short intro here: > > http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2013/09/24/meet-the-danish-ngo-thats-taking-open-source-education-global/ > > > > --- Want to help us (and yourself)? --- > > If you would like to support our free and Open Access textbook initiatives, you should consider becoming a paying member of our Foundation. Then you will have access to our online courses (http://www.interaction-design.org/courses ), our mentoring program, and lots more. Please see http://www.interaction-design.org/join for more info. > > > Please forward this email if you want to help us educate the world on design through Open Access educational materials ! > > > > Have a wonderful day! > > Warmest regards, > > Mads Soegaard > > > > ------------ > 2013 IA Summit > April 4 - 7, 2013 > Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, MD > ----- > 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: Sigia-l at asis.org > Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l From ben at tda-digital.com Fri Nov 15 08:46:00 2013 From: ben at tda-digital.com (Ben Tregoing) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:46:00 +0000 Subject: [Sigia-l] =?windows-1252?q?New_project_-_Director_of_UX_=AD_tech_?= =?windows-1252?q?start_up_=AD_Manhattan_-_=24150-200k?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Director of UX ? tech start up ? Manhattan - $150-200k Hello everyone, I know a lot of you have secret (or not so secret) desires to try your hand at defining and implementing a user centered design process in a product / tech start up environment; to see the results of your work immediately and dramatically influence not only the direction of a product, but the fortunes of a whole company. Who wouldn?t want that level of visibility and rapid professional gratification? But navigating your way through the start-up scene in NYC can be a time consuming and tiring experience; how do you find the companies with a solid business plan, stable funding, a clear vision, and the desire and understanding to actually do UX ?right?? Our new client, based in Manhattan, could be just the company to consider. What do they make: The product is pretty fascinating; based around insanely complex semantic algorithms, using ?big data?, natural language analysis and computational linguistics, the product aims to take the guesswork out of creating engaging and effective marketing copy. When generating marketing content and copy, the process mostly involves taking a ?best guess? at what will work; what will engage customers, what will achieve the desired effect, perhaps by looking at limited data sets of similar content. By modeling millions of pieces of content (defined as the ?semantic space?), mapping this space to the emotions that will most effectively engage or persuade customers to act, and identifying the absolute best copy by way of complex statistical analysis, this product not only highlights the most effective copy format, but also provides insight into exactly which emotions and drivers are most important to customers. The product, up until recently, was used solely internally by expert users, with no end user in mind outside of the company. But the core components of this technology can now be made available to the outside world, with the scope to completely change the way any sort of copy is created, for any purpose. Now that the opportunity is there to push this out to an external market, design and UX is a central consideration. How do they make it: The whole company, from the founders down, is aligned in recognizing the importance now of having a beautifully designed, intuitive product, fit for the external market. Everybody is ready to invest the time and money in achieving this. Whilst they are looking for someone to own the UX discipline, they also completely appreciate that for a design and UX discipline to have an impact, collaboration and cohesion are essential. They are looking for someone to implement a transparent and collaborative UX process, and to own that process from research and requirements (user and business), through distillation and insights (working closely with tech, business, users etc..), to concept and ideation (collaborating with all key stakeholders), detailed design and specification (sketches, wireframes, flows and product maps), and all usability and testing efforts, all within a rapid, agile framework. What are they looking for: Whilst there is no design or UX team in place yet, someone with experience of leading teams and projects is essential. You don?t necessarily have to have built whole departments from scratch, but must have led projects (allocating resources, hiring and managing teams, defining process and approach, leading all stages of the UX process from beginning to end). Also, agency experience is not enormously useful, unless you have been part of product focused agile development cycles, worked on data driven design projects (as opposed to ?insights? or creative / strategy led process?), and had ownership of a product post launch. If you happened to have a working knowledge of HTML and CSS, could prototype your own design concepts, had a working knowledge of visual and UI design, knew your way around Photoshop, and were an expert data visualizer then, well, that would be just dandy (these things are not essential to the brief but, hey, it?s a start-up. All purple unicorns are welcome). Drop me a note for more info. Kind regards, See me and the UXPA discuss how to create your UX portfolio: http://bit.ly/XIzrf0 Ben Tregoing | Founding Partner & Director - TDA-Digital Inc. M: 917 208 0812 E: ben at tda-digital.com US: 68 Jay Street | Suite 413 | Brooklyn | NY 11201 UK: 69-85 Tabernacle Street | London | EC2A 4BD Happy to connect: [cid:C04B0950-5956-4A06-A27E-F1DA78476E8F] [cid:C5D86E2A-A09F-484C-82FB-F0F534F11026] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ From mephitis.skunk at gmail.com Mon Nov 25 13:25:40 2013 From: mephitis.skunk at gmail.com (Michael Albers) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:25:40 -0500 Subject: [Sigia-l] SCCI registration is now open Message-ID: <52939624.8000706@gmail.com> Registration is now open and we invite everyone to join us on February 24-25 for the Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). February 24-25, 2014 East Carolina University Greenville NC http://workshop.design4complexity.com/home.php The future will see the design of information and communication technologies that serve ever more complex purposes and problems. For these technologies, creating user centered design is particularly challenging when users are engaged in sophisticated knowledge work and collaborations and do not want to become power users to conduct this work electronically. Goals of this workshop are to clarify what we already know about communicating complex information, how to apply that understanding in to the work environment, and to clarify our understanding of what issues urgently need further research. We hope to reach new insights about Current major research issues that need to be addressed Ways to transform research into practical applications For more information contact Michael J. Albers albersm at ecu.edu From mephitis.skunk at gmail.com Mon Nov 25 15:17:17 2013 From: mephitis.skunk at gmail.com (Michael Albers) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:17:17 -0500 Subject: [Sigia-l] Communication Design Quarterly 2.1 Released Message-ID: <5293B04D.3060508@gmail.com> The first volume of SIGDOC Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) 2 is now available for free at the following link: http://sigdoc.acm.org/publication/. Enclosed you will find our first-ever book reviews of new titles in UX design and accessibility, a state-of-the-SIG report by our Chair, as well as research articles on accessible icon design for medical devices and student digital composing as communicative action. Happy reading!