During the last few months of the presidential campaign, Billy Belchev and Paul Baker of Webitects traveled to Obama for America offices in swing states studying the campaign's ground game.
Using design research methods, they recorded screens, mouse movements, and voices as organizers "cut turf," pulled walking and calling lists, entered volunteer information, etc. They also photographed and collected artifacts, took videos of strategy meetings, and interviewed organizers. Their design research will help inform the redesign of campaign software. In very graphic terms, they will present what they learned, and how they learned it. Zack Exley of ThoughtWorks and the New Organizing Institute (former Director of Online Communications and Organizing for John Kerry's campaign) will also preview his book about the Obama ground game. See his related story on the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782. html. Details: Wednesday, January 14, 6:30-8:30, ThoughtWorks in the AON building. Please RSVP if you want to attend<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pKwbS7NpPcWl4zO9aLzemVA> . Food and beverages will be provided. ________________________ * Announcements from the Dec event:* Know anyone interested in a contract development position at a competitive hourly rate? The office is located at 1900 N Clybourn. Skills requested: 1. General web developer with Moveable Type or Wordpress skills, or able to learn Moveable Type 4; PHP, Javascript, MS-SQL. 2. Actionscript3, Flex3, Ruby On Rails. email: Patrick Malon at [email protected] for more information and mention where you saw this posting _____________________________________ *Sears Holdings Corp is looking for:* Information Architect: Taxonomy Specialist Project Overview: Must be able to analyze large amounts of data about a product assortment to create categorical relationships among entries to enable shoppers to browse to a desired product. Required Skills/ Experience: Research • Card sorting, • Task analysis, • interview methods, • contextual inquiry & affinity diagramming, • Web analytics, • metadata organizing & ontology design • categorization & labeling • clickstream analysis (Tea leaf), • search term analysis (Omniture) • user survey creation and analysis, • heuristic & competitive review • evaluation methods Interface Design • UI design • site architecture • faceted browsing & search • Navigation design Consulting Skills • Understanding business needs in relation to user needs & technology restraints • Ability to negotiate with business stakeholders • Gain consensus on designs through peer review • Team leadership • Group facilitation • Project planning and tracking, keeping to tight deadlines • Mentorship of co-workers • Identification tools, templates, and techniques that evolve existing approaches for the user experience group Desired, but not required Skills/ Experience: • Ability to run remote testing • TeaLeaf and Omniture experience • Semantic Web and underlying technologies • Semantic tagging • Degree in Information Science Daily Responsibilities: The Taxonomy Specialist will play a key role in presenting our products online. As a member of the Experience Strategy & Design Group you will work closely with Business Stakeholders (Management, Merchandising, IT) to ensure that the Sears.com, Kmart.com and other web-based products meet business objectives, support the brand and are useful, intuitive and desirable to users. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to create smart, innovative online solutions involving: • Understanding target audiences' needs and other motivating factors and translating them into concepts for compelling interactions and experiences. • Planning and executing iterative user research and analysis projects including but not limited to interviews, concept testing, and usability testing and heuristic evaluations. • Leading and/or participating in immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing. • Collaboratively developing scenarios, navigation models, and prototypes for demonstration of concepts to stakeholders and project teams. • Developing and documenting detailed information architecture and interaction designs for highly interactive interfaces to support business strategy, marketing strategy, and desired user behaviors. • Serving as an expert consultant during the detailed design phase by reviewing interaction design, copy and visual design for usability best practices. Please send resume to : Mark FelcanSmith and Scott Confer mfelcan (at) searshc (dot) com sconfer (at) searshc (dot) 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
