We're looking for a contractor to redesign our web application for improved usability. You must have both graphic design and usability analysis skills. The project budget is $5K to $10K, depending on scope and experience. You can work from anywhere (no in-person meetings required).
Our site, foodmoves.com, http://www.foodmoves.com/, is an online auction site for the produce industry (think "eBay for truckloads of tomatoes"). We hope to bring down the cost of fresh food (for everyone) and improve the quality of life for food producers (in the US and Latin America) by introducing Internet efficiencies to the produce supply chain. This is a unique professional challenge: Traders in the produce industry are reluctant to use the web and we want you to find ways to make it easier for them to adopt our trading platform. We're privately funded by people in the produce industry. Our business style is more "mom 'n pop" than corporate; you will be directly engaged in a group process with the lead developer and the company's owners to redefine the architecture and look-and-feel of the site. The ideal contractor (or design team) will have strong visual communication skills as a graphic designer, with an ability to render complete page designs in Photoshop. He or she must also have practical experience with usability best practices and research methodologies. At a minimum he or she must be prepared to informally interview several of our current users and synthesize user experience observations as part of the process of developing a site redesign. This project does not require extensive proposals, documentation, or written specifications. Rather, you must be prepared to participate in a series of phone conference calls with the company principals, explaining what you've learned and what you are proposing. An acceptable deliverable is a set of pages rendered in Photoshop with a memo that explains and justifies design decisions in terms of improved user experience. We'd like to see your portfolio. Please send a list of URLs for sites you've designed to: kehoe (at) foodmoves.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
