*SEPTEMBER EVENT* *RECAP* For our September event, we had guest speaker Steve Portigal in from California to talk about cultural context. Steve showed many examples of different cultural expectations via some of the great photographs he's taken during his travels. He also explored the reactions people have when their normalized understandings of the world are pushed past the edges that define their worlds and comfort levels. Stories ranged from toilet design to public signage and graffiti.
*OCTOBER EVENT* On October 19th and 20th Chris Bernard from Microsoft will be giving in-depth lab-based instructional sessions on SketchFlow in Expression Blend. Part of Microsoft's Expression Blend, SketchFlow is a next generation tool for ideation and the rapid creation of dynamic prototypes. As part of this session you'll be assigned your own work station and Chris will instruct all attendees in a detailed overview of the features of Expression Blend. You learn why prototyping is an important part of the design process and how SketchFlow enables a new paradigm of productivity for the interactive designer. In addition, you'll receive a free trial of Expression Blend to try at home and the chance to win a full version of Expression Studio, T-shirts, etc. Chris will use instructional content from his upcoming book entitled `Dynamic Prototyping With Expression Blend' that is being co-authored with Sara Summers. Each session can accommodate 19 people and will be held in Suite 200 at AON Center (Microsoft's Chicago Offices). Doors will open at 5:00pm and the training sessions will start at 5:30 and conclude at 7:00pm. Sign up for the 10/19 Event here: http://tinyurl.com/mtodo7 * *<http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=29-5C-F6-22-82-ED-8A-A9-0F-06-76-DE-04-FD-B5-CF&Culture=en-US> Or sign up for the 10/20 Event here: http://tinyurl.com/nn2rhr *GET INVOLVED* Interested in hosting an IxDA event, facilitating a discussion, or presenting a topic? How about helping to coordinate an event? We'd love your help! Just respond to this email with information on what you'd like to do or say - and thanks for supporting the Chicago IxDA! *JOB POSTING* Sr. Staff User Interface Designer Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) Motorola's Applied Research & Technology Center (ARTC) is the corporate technology research organization serving all of Motorola’s businesses. We are tasked with ensuring that Motorola’s business units have the technology, intellectual property, and assets to address growing opportunities in the new market spaces. As a Senior Staff Interaction Designer, you will contribute to all areas of experience research, but have primary responsibilities for detailed user interface graphics, design and task flows, up to and including UI prototyping for evaluation and demonstration to end users, business partners and key customers. The position will have the following additional responsibilities: • Participation in all facets of user research including contextual inquiry, task analyses as well as tests of user performance on individual products and end-to-end systems. • Understand and design for optimum human performance across multiple environments and task contexts. • Work closely with a multi-disciplinary research organization and key business partners to ensure that the final user experience meets or exceeds the needs of the business partner, potential customers and end users. • Publish and present results to peers, developers, management and customers in terms of both user interface requirements documents and white papers expressing needs for future product and system developments. The job requirements include: • Bachelors degree required, Masters Degree or higher in Design, Human Factors, Engineering Psychology preferred. • 5+ years UI design within a desktop or mobile application development environment. A portfolio is required with resume submission. • Expertise in creating high quality, production-ready UI graphics using Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio, or comparable graphics products required. • Ability to create a interactive software prototypes for user evaluation and iterative development also required. • Expertise in GUI screen layout with visual programming tools such as provided by VisualStudio, Expression Studio, or comparable development tools is preferred. • Familiarity with exploratory techniques such as user/task analysis, surveys, contextual inquiry methods, and other field studies and translation of results into user profiles, use cases, and user interface designs is preferred. • Good organizational and communication skills, both written and oral. • Ability to perform in an informal leadership position among a multi-disciplinary technology team in the creation of new designs and approaches. • Able to work well across a decentralized, geographically dispersed organization. Interested parties should email [email protected] with a cover letter and resume/portfolio links or attachments. A full description of the position (job ID 87371) is posted at the Motorola careers website, directly linked here: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_motorola/external/en/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=174613 ________________________________________________________________ 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
