UX Discovery Session… by Gerard Dolan

Design + Branding:

• Banksy Graffiti Artist
• Design Journeys Archive
• 12 Gorgeous Vimeo Videos for Design Inspiration
• The Wired App
• The Future of Web Fonts
• Responsive Web Design
• NIKE FOOTBALL WRITE THE FUTURE – FULL LENGTH VERSION
• AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2010
• Old Levi’s launches new jeans brand in China
• Do you speak color?

User Experience:

• Infographic of the Day: The 140 Most Influential People on Twitter
• Case-Study: Deconstructing Popular Websites (Opinion Column)
• Sneak Peek: Obama Administration’s Redesigned Data.gov
• Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing
• What Is User Experience Design
• Universal Logins and Social Media
• Data Monday: Devices Sold Per Day
• Bill Buxton and Albert Shum Interviewed
• Podcast for the 2010 UPA International Conference
• Vertical and horizontal experiences
• Radio Johnny: Louis Rosenfeld ~ IA Summit, Corporate Strategy, and Rosenfeld Media

Other Tangents:

• Work Smart: Brainstorming Techniques to Boost Creativity
• What I Learned About Networking When I Asked a Stranger for a Kidney
• The Betterness Manifesto
• Victoria’s Secret Ad Spoof On Lane Bryant Blog Features Skeletons In Bras, Targets Fox And ABC (VIDEO)
• Lead with Optimism
• 5 Creative Uses for Crowdsourcing
• 10 Features to Look Forward to in WordPress 3.0

Design + Branding:

• A Quest for Meaning in a Dystopian Era
• No girls allowed
• Wheel of Worry, NYTimes
• We love Apple, say Adobe ads, as companies’ battle enters new phase
• Around the World in 51 Characters
• The unbeautiful logo
• 30+ Music Inspired Logos in Logo Design
• Classic World Cup moments on T-shirts
• London Olympics 2012: Meet Wenlock and Mandeville, drips off the old block
• Quick Tip: Google Fonts API: You’re Going to Love This
• Cool Resource: The Google Font API and Font Directory
• Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising
• Ferrari’s Barcode: Brand Advertising or Coincidence?
• MOCA Reverts to the 1980s

User Experience:

• World’s first paperless car.
• UX reflections in UX Magazine
• The Small Print: Writing UI Instructions
• Michel Thomas’ language instruction to the iPhone
• Expert Tips on How to Build a Multicultural Website
• Inspiration – Work of Illustrator/Engraver Gabriel Moreno
• User experience design, service design & design thinking : A common story?
• …and then the consultants leave
• Archetypes and Their Use in Mobile UX
• iPhone Sketch Elements AI
• 5 Up and Coming Mobile Technologies

Other Tangents:

• The Fairness Strategy: Negotiating for the Long-Term
• The Maddening, Rewarding World of Design People
• AIGA Research Grant Call for Proposals
• I Just Dont Care About the GPL/Licenses
• Here
• HTML 5 for Web Designers, by Jeremy Keith

Design + Branding:

• Pentagram, New Work: GE
• From an old, old, old interview with Stuart Bailey in 2006.
• “Television,” for example
• The United Airlines Rebranding Strategy
• Claridge’s rebrand
• Every[blank] Every[blank]™
• Logo Design: World Cup 2010
• A Working City Rises
• Madrid 2016 Olympic Games Bid Book
• New Seattle’s Best: Best-er or Worse?
• Pantone Plus Series launches
• Not My Type exhibition
• Made of Coke
• The origins, history and future of logo design
• Sagmeister’s “Here for Good”

User Experience:

• Infographic of the Day: We’re Drowning in Green Label Glut
• Case-Study: Deconstructing Popular Websites (Opinion Column)
• UX Lisbon: Designing for New Technologies
• Extraordinary Experiences: LEGO
• The news is out – Yahoo! Pattern Library finding a new home
• Bill Maher makes fun of Captcha’s poor usability
• The Askers & the Guessers
• 11 Tips on How To Apply Social Interaction Design Thinking
• The Future of Data Overload as Envisioned for 2020
• Visualizing How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico
• The Future of Information Interfaces for Emergency Management
• 3 books you arent reading but should
• Best User Interface Design Resources: The Round-up
• The Death of Files
• Design Disasters: AMC’s Simulated Butter Dispenser
• Reaching outside the UX tribe at STC’s Technical Communication Summit
• Ferrari F10 Steering Wheel Looks Like a Robot Barfed on It
• Holy crap…I gave the closing plenary at IA Summit 2010
• Not to prime, is a crime!
• Control

Other Tangents:

• New design programs emerging worldwide
• AT&T Pricing Legend
• Tiered value-based pricing
• Why Online Reputation Management Is More Important Than Ever
• Why Amish businesses don’t fail

Posted: May 12, 2010
Closes: When filled
Company: Critical Mass
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Position Description and Responsibilities

The Information Architect plays an integral role in the development of our clients’ web sites. Working closely with all in-house teams involved in the Web development process, the Information Architect will contribute to the planning process of various Web sites by organizing information, developing Web site architectures, and developing labeling/search systems.

Responsibilities:
• Reviewing research on competitive Web sites, existing Web initiatives, past Web projects and consumer research
• Synthesize research findings to aid the project team developing the Web site architecture
• Collaborating with project team members and clients to develop organizational/structural concepts for Web site projects
• Translating concepts into effective information architectures
• Developing plans that production teams can use to help guide their work
• Collaborating on the development of labeling/search systems
• Preparing IA documentation (site architectures, wire frames, use cases and task flows, etc.) to be used by the production team
• Ensuring IA documentation is continuously updated and distributed to the production team
• Identifying and implementing opportunities to refine IA process

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Minimum 3 years’ related industry experience in new media, information technology, communications, or library/information science
• Minimum 1 year experience in the role of information architect, user experience lead or information design lead
• Effective communication skills, both orally and in a variety of written and diagrammatic forms
• Proven understanding of and experience with: user-centered design techniques; development of organizational/structural concepts for Web site; project processes for the development of large scale Web site projects; documentation requirements for Web development teams; application of content management, personalization, targeting and searching systems
• Experience with: software development process/business analysis; user research, usability practices and testing preferred
 
To Apply Online, visit the Critical Mass website

Design + Branding:

• Heeeeeerrrrrrreeeeeee’s the Logo!
• Eames the Typeface
• Neutraface, the typeface used on my web site
• Eau de Golden Ratio
• 293. Up There.
• Countries Are Not Brands
• An Inconvenient Drop Shadow
• 292. The. Sneakiest. Design. Ever.
• How to convince your clients they need a brand and not just a logo
• Paul rand’s business card.
• Martine Franck discussing her husband and fellow photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Inked: Tattoo Lifestyle Magazine
• BMW brings “Joy” to China
• Calculating The Genuine Value of Your Design
• Position a luxury brand as the long-term investment it is.

User Experience:

• Watch the Startups
• Muscle Memory & Multiple Devices
• How to Start a Social Movement
• Interview: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg from Flowing Media
• Design for America: $40k Data Visualization Competition
• Don’t Be So Sure About That
• Wheels of Nutrition: Revealing Dietary Information on the Plate
• Intel: Envisioning Visualizations in the Home of the Future
• The Speed of Thought
• Experience design for collaboration
• Why Care About Touch Interfaces?
• FITC: Thoughts from a First-Time Speaker, Long Time Attendee
• Web Site Optimization: How to look like a Rockstar
• The UX-Driven Startup
• Interesting work for interesting people
• Touch Target Sizes
• A Canceling Culture
• What’s Up With Social Objects?
• Data Monday: iPhone vs. Android.
• Experience Precedes Branding

Other Tangents:

• WordPress plugins on davidairey.com
• If the price is right: Pricing strategies that stop customers from chasing prices
• Six Essential Tech News You Might Have Missed
• Ten Terrific Apps to Help You Keep Track of Your Time
• 30 Useful Adobe AIR Applications

Design + Branding:

• Striking Out Cancer
• Monotype embraces @font-face possibilities
• Improving typography through space
• Nokia: Ovi Maps Interactive Projection Mapping
• Brands with problems: Apple, Butterfinger, and AriZona iced tea
• The Evolution of the Batman Symbol
• Record sleeves of the month
• The United and Continental Airline Mashup
• Why Do We Have Such Ugly Money?
• Three More Info-Graphics for Designers
• Spoiler Alert: The P and G are the Same
• What The Guardian could have looked like?
• Élysée identity by Red

User Experience:

• Changing Habits: Mapping Environmental Impact as Humanoids
• Book Review: Beyond the Usability Lab
• Satisfy the Cat
• Web App Masters: Designing for Interesting Moments
• Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema
• The Future is Already Here: Three Trends in IA
• The Insipid World of Infographics (infographic)
• Your Credit Card Now Makes Phone Calls (And Plays Music)
• Improving The User Experience Of Your Website With Modal Windows
• Introducing WordPress 3 Custom Taxonomies
• 15 Great Mindmapping Tools and Apps
• Top 35 Flickr Groups for Infographics and Data Visualization
• The Data-Driven Life
• Designing with Forces—Ryan Singer
• Interaction Design and Architecture: A Video Primer
• Discuss: Powerpoint is the enemy?

Other Tangents:

• Who’s Responsible for Your Company’s Reputation?
• 10 Essential Tech Stories You Might Have Missed
• Berenice Abbott, 1921, on photography
• Flash Catalyst is finally a reality
• Selling your by-products
• Simplicity isn’t that simple
• http://tweetpsych.com/