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CHI2004

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  		HCI 2005 in Scotland UK Posted by: Alan_Chamberlain on Monday, November 22, 2004 - 02:46 PM
  		6 Reads HCI 2005: The Bigger Picture The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, 5-9 September 2005 (http://www.hci2005.org/) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadlines: Full papers, tutorials and workshops: 10 February 2005 All other submissions: 10 May 2005 It's now twenty years since the first British HCI Group conference. People continue to debate whether HCI is now a mature discipline (or even whether we have moved beyond HCI). Either way, it's time to stand back and take a good look at "The Bigger Picture". Our theme, "The Bigger Picture", is open to wide and playful interpretation, like HCI itself (does the "I" stand more for Integration these days? HCI2005 invites submissions of full papers, tutorials and workshops. Full papers at HCI2005 can be up to 14 pages and should address the conference theme of 'The Bigger Picture'. Read more... (3191 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Visual Design Manager (Req#: 53051) Posted by: falkenburg on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 06:22 AM
  		17 Reads Visual Design Manager (Req#: 53051) Reply to: nancy_falkenburg@intuit.com Req#: 53051 BU/FU: QBG Location: Mountain View, CA Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The QuickBooks Group UI Design team is tasked with designing the user experience for more than 2.5 million users of QuickBooks products and services. Our group creates elegant, appealing, and extensible designs through user-centered design practices. These practices include gathering user needs, setting standards for design development, serving as user advocates on development teams, and performing usability testing for effective design iteration. Job description The Visual Design Manager will be responsible for directing a small team of visual designers in the QuickBooks Group at Intuit. The Visual Design Manager will work closely with interaction design and user research groups to ensure that high quality user experiences are integral to Intuit products. The manager will be responsible for establishing and evolving the visual design language for QuickBooks desktop products and online services. In addition, the Visual Design Manager will spend 25-50% of the time on a hands-on capacity by directly driving innovative design solutions to completion. The Visual Design Manager must be an excellent communicator and strong leader in a work environment that is fast paced and values excellent teamwork. Read more... (3592 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		User Interface Design Manager (Req#: 53050) Posted by: falkenburg on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 06:21 AM
  		9 Reads User Interface Design Manager (Req#: 53050) Reply to: nancy_falkenburg@intuit.com Req#: 53050 BU/FU: QBG Location: Mountain View, CA Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The QuickBooks Group UI Design team is tasked with designing the user experience for more than 2.5 million users of QuickBooks products and services. Our group creates elegant, appealing, and extensible designs through user-centered design practices. These practices include gathering user needs, setting standards for design development, serving as user advocates on development teams, and performing usability testing for effective design iteration. Job description The User Interface Design Manager will be responsible for directing a team of senior interaction designers in the QuickBooks Group at Intuit. In this role the manager will provide direction to team members in the development of QuickBooks desktop products and related web-based services. The UI Manager will work closely with user research and visual design groups to ensure that high quality user experiences are integral to Intuit products. The User Interface Design Manager will also work closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders to scope activities and develop work plans to ensure that project goals are framed to meet business and customer goals. The UI Manager must be an excellent communicator and strong leader in a work environment that is fast paced and values excellent teamwork. Read more... (3442 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Senior UI Designer (Req#: 53052) Posted by: falkenburg on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 06:20 AM
  		10 Reads Senior UI Designer (Req#: 53052) Reply to: nancy_falkenburg@intuit.com Req#: 53052 BU/FU: QBG Location: Mountain View, CA Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The QuickBooks Group UI Design team is tasked with designing the user experience for more than 2.5 million users of QuickBooks products and services. Our group creates elegant, appealing, and extensible designs through user-centered design practices. These practices include gathering user needs, setting standards for design development, serving as user advocates on development teams, and performing usability testing for effective design iteration. Primary responsibilities: - Provide desktop application interface designs and/or design consulting on product teams from concept development through delivery. - Define and design new products in new markets as well as incremental re-work of current desktop and Internet-based products. - Aid in concept development through focus groups, user interviews, surveys and observational studies. - Work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team, including members of the Engineering, Marketing, Product Support, QA, and Documentation teams. - Manage the design process, drive decisions, create schedules, track issues. - Deliver prototypes, mock-ups, and design specifications for your designs. - Perform design reviews and usability testing during various phases of the product development to evaluate and iterate the designs. - Collaborate with designers and product developers to maintain consistent look and feel across the product lines. Qualifications: Qualifications: - Minimum BA/BS degree in Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology or related field. - 7+ years of application interface design experience. - Strong knowledge of interface design processes and methodology in creating desktop and internet applications. - Familiarity with one or more prototyping tools. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Must have strong project and people management skills and be able to function as project leader as well as individual contributor. - Advanced degree (MS, Ph.D.) in Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology or related field. - Proficiency with rapid prototyping tools such as PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Director, and Visual Basic. - Proficiency with HTML, DHTML, JavaScript. - Some direct Internet-related design experience including the design and usability testing of web sites and web-based products. Targets: Adobe, Apple Computer, Macromedia, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, Interleaf, Yahoo!, eBay, Lotus Development, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, IBM comments?

  
  

  		Senior Visual Designer (Req#: 52954) Posted by: falkenburg on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 06:20 AM
  		7 Reads Senior Visual Designer (Req#: 52954) Reply to: nancy_falkenburg@intuit.com Req#: 52954 BU/FU: QPFG Location: Mountain View, CA Intuit is looking for a talented, motivated Senior Visual Designer to drive the overall visual strategy for all Quicken Personal Finance products. These include desktop products, services, web applications as well as new product offerings. Primary Responsibilities & Duties: - Responsible for establishing and driving an overall visual design strategy for the Quicken family of products and services (both existing and new products). - Contribute to the Quicken branding strategy of Quicken SKUs and sub-brands - Create visual concepts that implement the brand for future products. - Translate the visual design strategy into well documented guidelines and templates. - Responsible for driving innovative visual design solutions to completion. Work with project teams to gather requirements and deliver visual design solutions for Quicken desktop application, browser based features, and online services, including navigation, layout, typography, color maps, graphics, and icons. Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, or equivalent - Min. 4 years design experience - Min. 1 year Internet-related design experience - Min. 1 year Windows desktop software design experience - Experience with project management - Excellent communication and collaboration skills - Portfolio that demonstrates superior design skills, creativity, and design process - Interaction design experience - Proficiency with prototyping tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver) - Brand design experience is a plus Targets: Adobe, Apple Computer, Macromedia, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, Interleaf, Yahoo!, eBay, Lotus Development, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, IBM comments?

  
  

  		Senior Information Architect - Walmart.com Posted by: kellyaengsf on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 06:19 AM
  		33 Reads Description Walmart.com is seeking talented Information Architects and/or Senior Information Architects for the User Experience/Creative team. This is a perfect role for someone who thrives in a busy, fast-paced environment, and who can collaborate with cross-functional teams: designers, writers, engineers, program managers, and business owners. Combining technical knowledge with a customer-focused approach to our site, Information Architects are responsible for determining how the interactive user interfaces we build should work. An Information Architect creates the plans that are used by other team members to develop the graphical user interface, content, and functionality. He/She is responsible for consulting with clients about their business goals, proposes front-end architectural solutions and strategies that meet both users' and business needs, organizes site content and functionality by creating site blueprints/wireframes, creates identifiable nomenclature for users, creates navigation systems that support users' needs, analyzes, develops and refines user tasks/processes, and collaborates with the design and development teams to build user interfaces. Read more... (3469 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Interaction Designers - NYC Posted by: Bplumb on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 01:06 PM
  		64 Reads If thoughts of pioneering the latest marketing trends and technologies get you revved up; if you are inspired by working among the best in the field, you are destined to join the Digitas team. As one of the fifteen largest marketing services firms in the world, the opportunities at Digitas are without boundary. Using a unique marketing engines model to integrate strategy, technology, creative and digital and direct marketing, we conceive, enable and execute the big ideas that knock the socks off prominent Fortune 200 companies. And we know it takes phenomenal people to make it all happen. That's why we are dedicated to building a culture based on inspiration, team accomplishment and career development and why we are delighted to be ranked #3 among the Top 50 "Best Places to Work" by the Boston Business Journal, as well as the Adweek IQ Independent Agency of the Year. Whether you're a marketing marvel, a wiz with numbers, a promotions phenomenon or an artful designer, we hope you'll consider bringing your talents to Digitas, where the creative, the passionate and the motivated find the career they were always meant to have. Read more... (1304 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		CAiSE*05 Doctoral Consortium Posted by: hassina on Friday, October 29, 2004 - 02:11 PM
  		29 Reads CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Doctoral Consortium at CAiSE*05 (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering) 13-14 June 2005, Porto, Portugal http://lbd.epfl.ch/caise05dc/calls.html ***************************************************************************************** The Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the information systems engineering field to discuss their research in an international forum. The CAiSE*05 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by six prominent professors in the field of information systems which will actively participate and contribute to the discussions. The workshop lasts two days (13-14th June 2005) and about 10 - 15 Ph.D. students will have the possibility to participate. Final deadline for submission: February 28th, 2005 comments?

  
  

  		Vice President, UED Posted by: lan on Friday, October 29, 2004 - 02:10 PM
  		51 Reads Company info: Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Our success is no accident. Yahoo! is home to some of the brightest minds on the Web. Fun is a core value here at Yahoo! Yahoos believe humor is essential to success and are known for applauding irreverence. Of course, what's really cool about Yahoo! is where we are headed. Yahoo! is well-positioned for the future with innovative ideas and new opportunities every day. These are thrilling times for us, which makes it a great time for you to join the Yahoo! team! Read more... (3103 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		First User Lab European Conference USERLABCONF PARIS 24 of November Posted by: Lutin on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 07:58 AM
  		49 Reads Novembre 24th in Paris at the user Lab LUTIN (Laboratoire des usages en technologies d'information numériques) Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de la Villette. www.lutin.utc.fr www.cite-sciences.fr Read more... (2141 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		CFP: WWW 2005 - Chiba, Japan - open for submissions Posted by: Paul_Aoki on Monday, October 04, 2004 - 02:15 PM
  		79 Reads We invite you to submit papers to the BROWSERS & USER INTERFACES track of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference, to be held on May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. We encourage the submission of your best work, as WWW is quite competitive (acceptance rates are comparable to CHI). Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by ACM Press. The latest conference information (including detailed submission guidelines) is available at http://www2005.org/ The paper submission deadline is November 8 and the submission site is currently open! Read more... (2246 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Sr. User Interface Designer Posted by: kybarra on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 09:39 PM
  		127 Reads Location: Mountain View, CA Position Sr. UI Designer Req #: 52168 Duration: Full Time Job Description: Intuit is looking for a talented, motivated Senior User Interface Designer to help shape the User Interface for Quicken and Quicken.com. This designer will work with product management and the product development team to design and build innovative, industry-leading interface designs. They will work with Usability specialists and other team members to research and analyze target audience for products and develop creative design solutions. This designer will drive the interaction design process from product/feature conceptualization through implementation and usability review. The ideal candidate will be passionate about the end-user experience, the technology behind Quicken and Quicken.com, and will be able to work on both simple and challenging design problems. Read more... (2285 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Sr. Usability Specialist Posted by: kybarra on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 09:38 PM
  		82 Reads Company: Intuit Location: Mountain View, CA Position Title: Sr Usability Speacialist Duration: Full Time Job Description: Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do - developing, marketing and supporting products and services that transform the way people and small businesses around the world manage their finances. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The QuickBooks Group UI Design team is tasked with designing the user experience for the QuickBooks family of products and services. Our group creates elegant, appealing, and extensible designs through user-centered design practices. These practices include gathering user needs, setting standards for design development, serving as user advocates on development teams, and performing usability testing for effective design iteration. Read more... (2441 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Sr. User Researcher Posted by: kybarra on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 09:38 PM
  		73 Reads The User Research Group conducts research and testing for Intuit's Consumer Tax Group, supporting various software products and services. As part of the User Centered Design Group, researchers identify and predict existing and future customer needs, inform and inspire product designs, collaborating with development and business partners, and developing or acquiring the knowledge and skills we need to improve the quality of our deliverables. Our environment is fast-paced, multi-disciplinary, highly interactive, and informal. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency and experience in the following areas: - Application of rigorous research and testing methodologies - Ability to work on multiple, complex projects with little or no supervision - Excellent judgment when balancing the needs of customers with the needs of our business. Requirements: - Bachelors Degree (or higher) in Human Factors, Psychology or an equivalent field in the behavioral sciences. - At least four years of industry experience as a hands-on researcher in one or more consumer product domains. - Expertise in experimental design, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, user profiling and familiarity with a broad range of methodologies. - Strong understanding of and affinity for GUI design concepts and emerging technologies. - Experience with ethnographic and other field research techniques desirable - Experience with participatory design methods desirable - Experience teaching others about these concepts and methodologies. Must enjoy working closely with others, and be respectful of different perspectives. - Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills. - Organized, self-directed, efficient and able to complete complex projects in a timely manner. Please send Word doc resume to: kyle_ybarra@intuit.com comments?

  
  

  		Sr. User Interface Designer Posted by: kybarra on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 09:38 PM
  		88 Reads The Senior User Interface Designer will be a key contributor within highly interactive cross-functional product development teams. The Senior Designer will be directly responsible for key design projects creating user interaction models, screen flows, wireframes, and low and high-fidelity prototypes. The designer will receive little direction on medium size projects and some direction on complex projects. In addition, the Senior Designer will raise and advocate user experience issues within the organization, and contribute to the evolution of our software development process. Qualifications: - 5+years experience with user experience design for desktop applications and web environments - Effectively apply user-centered design methods to development of software products - Masters degree in design, psychology, human factors or related field - Deep understanding of design fundamentals including information design, visual design, interaction design, and best practices to achieve ease of use. - Proficiency with current design tools (e.g., Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Illustrator) - Proficiency with HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript - Deep knowledge of best practices adopted in web products as well as competitors' offerings - Effectively function within interactive cross-functional teams - Effectively influence others and arbitrate disagreements to reach decision. Send resume to: kyle_ybarra@intuit.com comments?

  
  

  		ACE 2005: International conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Posted by: adriancheok on Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:29 AM
  		242 Reads Following the great success of ACE 2004 in Singapore, we have great pleasure in announcing ACM SIGCHI ACE 2005 to be held in Valencia, Spain on 15th - 17th June 2005 www.ace2005.org Similarly to ACE 2004, ACM, the world's leading computer science society will be publishing all accepted papers, in both the proceedings and the ACM Digital Library and the conference is fully sponsored by the prestigious ACM SIGCHI. Furthermore, the Best Demo, Best Paper, and Excellent Paper prizes will again be awarded. Furthermore the Best papers will be published in the leading ACM publication: ACM Computers in Entertainment. You may note that this year in the September issue and the November issue you will see four papers in total from the Best papers of ACE 2004 in Singapore. Also we have an exciting line-up of Keynote Speakers: - Alex Lightman, Co-Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of Charmed Technology, - Hiroshi Ishii, Things That Think Head, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Laboratory, and - Newton Lee, Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Senior Staff Engineer at Disney Online Please see the call for papers at www.ace2005.org Prospective authors are now invited to submit Papers/Posters/Demos electronically via the conference website: http://www.ace2005.org by 15th February 2005 Look forward to seeing you at ACE2005! ACE2005 General Chairs Newton Lee (USA), Steve Benford (GBR), Maria Jose Martinez de Pison (ESP), Adrian David Cheok (SGP) Read more... (1511 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Urgent: Usability professionals for PeopleSoft-Covansys Usability Innovation Lab Posted by: Amit_Pande on Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:29 AM
  		406 Reads As PeopleSoft’s India presence, Covansys is building a Usability and User Experience Innovation lab in Whitefield, Bangalore. Simultaneously, we seek to hire outstanding Usability Engineers, Interaction Designers, User researchers, and professionals/researchers in Human Computer Interaction. The UE team will work with PeopleSoft’s Pleasanton and Denver usability teams, across the Enterprise and Enterprise One suite of products. This team is expected to grow to a few dozen people by 2005. In addition to formal usability testing, product evaluations, Total User Experience (TOE) metrics, and usability research, there will forthcoming opportunities to work with user communities in the Asia-Pacific. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of leading edge HCI and Usability research for both mature market and emerging market software product initiatives with PeopleSoft. Over the next few weeks, we are specifically accepting applications for USABILITY ENGINEERS. Read more... (4108 bytes more) comments?

  
  

  		Dust or Magic 2004: The 4th Children's New Media Design Institute Posted by: Warren_Buckleitner on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 12:38 PM
  		107 Reads "An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."* When? November 7-9, 2004 Where? Lambertville, NJ, The Inn at Lambertville Station Who? This event was created by Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D., Ann Orr, Ed.D. and Ellen Wolock, Ed.D of Children's Software and New Media Revue, as an effort to increase dialog between reviewers and publishers. Speakers for 2004 are Dr. Kathleen Alfano, director of the play lab at Fisher-Price; Chris Byrne, The Toy Guy of Toy Wishes Magazine; Claire Green, President of the Parents' Choice Foundation; James Marggraff, Vice President and director of content development for LeapFrog; James Oppenheim, technology editor for Child Magazine and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio and Scott Traylor a Harvard instructor and President of 360KID. The agenda is specifically designed for programmers, product managers, critics, reviewers and researchers... individuals who play an active role in creating smart toys, videogames, web sites and software. It is not intended for the public relations or marketing related individuals. Group size is limited to 42. For more information, visit http://www.dustormagic.com or call 908-284-0404. comments?

  
  

  		Lockheed Martin: Human Factors Engineer Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 11:38 AM
  		115 Reads The company I work for is hiring for several positions in our command & control division. Below is a short description and requirements. If you are interested, contact me at helena.m.mentis@lmco.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Company: Lockheed Martin Location: Moorestown, NJ (15 miles outside of Philadelphia) Position Title: Human Factors Engineer Duration: Full Time Lockheed Martin has openings for a Human Factors Engineer to gather requirements, perform task analysis, and layout user interfaces for maritime command & control systems. We are looking for someone with systems integration skills AND user interface design experience. Requirements: * 2+ years of professional experience * BS or equivalent in human factors, computer science, information science, systems engineering or a related field. * Experience with: Object oriented design analysis (UML, Rational Rose), usability testing, user centered design * Prototyping ability and experience with development tools and technologies (e.g., HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Photoshop, Altia) a plus. * Demonstrated teamwork skills * Good writing and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work with a wide range of disciplines in a team setting. comments?

  
  

  		Information Architect Contractor - Starwood Hotels & Resorts, White Plains, NY Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 11:38 AM
  		121 Reads Information Architect (contract position) Starwood Hotels & Resorts White Plains, NY Starwood Hotels & Resorts is looking for an information architect to work with our creative team on upcoming projects. The position is contract, working remotely and on-site at our offices in White Plains, New York as the project requires. White Plains is 45 minutes north of New York City, easily accessible by public transportation. As an information architect at Starwood Hotels you will have the opportunity to work with the strategy, creative and technology teams to improve the user experience for all of Starwood's websites (Westin, Sheraton, Four Points by Sheraton, W Hotels, Luxury Collection, St. Regis and more!) Read more... (1030 bytes more) comments?