Posts tagged ux
Wanted: UX Researcher for ESPN Digital Media
We’re looking for a Contractor for 6 months (extendable). You get to work on various sports portals from the ESPN network of sites, including ESPNcricinfo.com, ESPNF1.com, and ESPNsoccernet.com. If you have a passion for sports and your profile matches the criteria below, write to sumank/gmail
Essential functions:
- Play a role in developing the information architecture and interaction design of rich and complex interactive experiences on various platforms
- Articulate UX concepts and solutions through wireframes and prototypes of varying fidelity.
- Develop and document detailed user experience specifications for highly interactive designs.
- Will report to the ESPN Digital Media – EMEA UX team
Basic Qualifications:
- 1-3 years in similar role
- Experience on front end / consumer driven web sites.
- Prepared to show documentation and portfolio of sites worked on.
- Should possess a firm grasp of web technology trends
Notionink Adam User Survey: Or How NI Refuses to Learn
I saw on http://www.notioninkfan.com/ a link to a survey. Adam developers want feedback from Adam users and they created that survey.
I immediately thought ‘Why isn’t this featured on Notionink’s official website?’ People at NotionInk Hacks forums too expressed similar sentiments.
So I told myself “Come on! Don’t be a prick. Take the survey, help them make Adam better.” And I clicked on the survey link. I was glad that the NotionInk team was doing this: collecting user feedback. But my happiness lasted only until the survey questions appeared on my screen.
Either NI doesn’t care about this survey or there has been some colossal misunderstanding on what amounts to an effective survey.
Now for some gems (these are actual questions) from the survey:
- Prioritize your activities using a PC/Laptop (Range: very likely – very
Demystifying Fitts’s law
Fitts’s law states that acquiring a target is a function of the size of the target and the distance between the pointer and the target. In other words, bigger, closer the better. If you have anything to do with user-experience design you would have come across this ‘law’. What most practioners of UX design probably don’t know is this: why are bigger, closer targets easy to acquire? The probable answer lies elsewhere, in neurology. A few years back I stumbled upon Dr. V.S. Ramachandran’s BBC Reith lecture. It was a defining moment for me: it suddenly dawned on me that design is not so much about focus groups, surveys, and collected opinion. Design is about your brain. Continue reading “Demystifying Fitts’s law” »
Apostrophes in Names Stir Lot O’ Trouble
It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It’s a problem familiar to O’Connors, D’Angelos, N’Dours and D’Artagnans across America.
(via AP)
Well, well, well! There’s another problem with online forms: quite of few of them return an error message ‘last name can’t be a single letter’ when I give it as ‘R’. I can’t help it but south Indians have initials for last names. For example, mine is R as my dad’s name is RanganathaChari!
When Niall O’Dowd tried to book a flight to Atlanta earlier this year, the computer system refused to recognize his name. The editor of the Irish More...
UMO2007
UMO2007- a national conference on Desiging for User Experience, an event that makes a difference in so many peoples lives by changing the way they live, work and do business.
On 30th November, 2007 UsabilityMatters.Org and allied organizations will join communities across the world to mark the celebrations for World Usability Day 2007 in Hyderabad.
visit the conference website: http://umo.in/umo2007/
Recommended Books on Usability write to me: sumank [at] gmail [dot] com