[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Interaction Designer - Pharmacy OneSource - Middleton, WI Bellevue, WA - full time
Interaction Designer Pharmacy OneSource Full Time, Permanent Middleton, WI or Bellevue, WA Pharmacy OneSource is the fastest growing and the national leader in software as a service for healthcare systems. We create and implement software that address specific medication management and patient safety challenges for more than 1,400 hospitals who provide care for more than 10 million patients admitted into the hospital. That means that about 1 out of 3 hospitals in the U.S. are directly affected by the work we do. Our software enables swift and safe healthcare, resulting in improved patient care, reduced costs, and saved lives. So we do work that matters. And we have fun, offering a relaxed, creative and inspired environment in Middleton (WI) and Bellevue (WA) where great people and ideas thrive. Job Summary Every day, thousands of pharmacists, doctors and nurses who use our software care for millions of patients. By making their user experience more intuitive and efficient, you'll play an important part in improving the quality of patient care. As an Interaction Designer, your role is vital to our development process. You'll steer interface design, create prototypes, research the user experience, and collaborate with teams of software developers to promote user-centered design. We offer a full benefits package, which includes medical and dental insurance, PTO, paid holidays, and matching 401(k). Salary is commensurate upon experience. To be considered for this exciting opportunity submit resume to j...@rph.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Plug] Announcing Working through Screens print on demand book
Apologies for duplicate message - thought that the first did not go through Best, @J_Burghardt Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:47:58 -0800 From: jse...@gmail.com To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] [Plug] Announcing Working through Screens print on demand book Picking up on a previous thread - http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=35950 The free e-book:* Working through Screens: 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work* is now available in 8.5x11 print on demand at minimum third party printing costs: http://bit.ly/bd7pJs Download the new letter sized pdf format for free: http://bit.ly/biaTtY Have you applied Working through Screens to your projects? I'm collecting reader experiences with the publication here: http://bit.ly/d7ftk2 Thank you! Jacob Burghardt Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [JOB] Interaction Designer - Pharmacy OneSource - Middleton, WI Bellevue, WA - full time
Interaction Designer Pharmacy OneSource is the fastest growing and the national leader in software as a service for healthcare systems. We create and implement software that address specific medication management and patient safety challenges for more than 1,400 hospitals who provide care for more than 10 million patients admitted into the hospital. That means that about 1 out of 3 hospitals in the U.S. are directly affected by the work we do. Our software enables swift and safe healthcare, resulting in improved patient care, reduced costs, and saved lives. So we do work that matters. And we have fun, offering a relaxed, creative and inspired environment in Middleton (WI) and Bellevue (WA) where great people and ideas thrive. Job Summary Every day, thousands of pharmacists, doctors and nurses who use our software care for millions of patients. By making their user experience more intuitive and efficient, you'll play an important part in improving the quality of patient care. As an Interaction Designer, your role is vital to our development process. You'll steer interface design, create prototypes, research the user experience, and collaborate with teams of software developers to promote user-centered design. We offer a full benefits package, which includes medical and dental insurance, PTO, paid Holidays, and matching 401(k). Salary is commensurate upon experience. To be considered for this exciting opportunity, submit recent salary history and resume to j...@rph.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Strategic Interaction Design
I am enjoying this thread a great deal. Thanks to Dan for starting it! I look forward to seeing what you come up with on this topic in your new edition. Some background: I do strategic UX consulting for clients who create (often complicated) applications for thinking work (e.g. a scientific data analysis tool). I would like to contribute four points: 1. Design strategy can be defined differently at different scopes 2. Design strategy can present frameworks for exploration and decision making 3. Effective design strategy outcomes can arise from ecosystems of conceptual design 4. Design strategies can be simultaneously communicated at multiple levels of detail --- 1. Design strategy can be defined differently at different scopes I agree with the previous comments on scope being important. When envisioning new or iteratively improved offerings, IxDers moving into more strategic roles find themselves in one of two generalized project situations: Case A. Top level traditional / business strategy is in place for their product or service, in which case design strategy can become next level extensions and conceptual visualizations of differentiated user experiences (and insightful, high value design strategy work may then lead to iteration back to reexamine initiating charters) Case B. Top level traditional / business strategy is not in place (or is in place, but is not very fleshed out), in which case design strategy efforts can encompass a much broader range of more traditional strategic activities, merging them with the conceptual design activities of Case A. This situation is a focus in the innovation literature. I often work in Case A situations, and with that in mind, here is a fairly rough definition from my recently posted e-book Working through Screens: Design strategy: The singular, relatively unchanging proposals that summarize the essence of an envisioned application's scope, core value, points of emotional connection, and approaches to mediating knowledge work. Design strategies are situated within a larger context of targeted user needs, technological possibilities, market forces, trends, and predictions. Product teams can use these strategies to drive clarity in their offerings and focus their members around a shared vision and goal set. Since they are derived from key business, marketing, and product development considerations, design strategies can be thought of as a lower level expression of a computing tool's initiating, high level charter. --- 2. Design strategy can present frameworks for exploration and decision making I believe that IxDers can learn a great deal from the critical brief writing found at many architecture, industrial design, and graphic design practices. Important, strategic insights do not just arise through ethnographic observation - they can also arise from designer-ly exploration and understanding of established and potential constraints. By creating frameworks that map things like trends, meaningful sources of differentiation, and potential experience attributes, IxDers can add considerable strategic value - especially when these boundary objects contain and reframe the findings and perspectives of other contributing groups within the organization. --- 3. Effective design strategy outcomes can arise from ecosystems of conceptual design Mature design disciplines often emphasize a conceptual design phase to explore multiple options within a framed problem space. Design action becomes a way of understanding, which can then iterated back into strategic arguments. The *process* of holistic, meaningfully branched conceptual design is much more difficult for software application than it is for a new mouse, but I believe that it is a major, largely untapped strategic contribution for IxDers. I see that IxDers turning onto Bill Buxton's sketching emphasis are heading in the direction of conceptual design as part of strategic thinking. What seems to be missing from his readers' posted outputs (the one's that I have seen in my surfing), is the holistic exploration of multiple genuinely different positionings as a means of understanding the what-it's-like-ness of potential experiences and discovering the fittest solution to a defined problem (from all of the valued perspectives within an organization). --- 4. Design strategies can be simultaneously communicated at multiple levels of detail Andrew asked a whole string of great questions, including: What does a strategy look like? Is it a diagram? A narrative document? A phrase that the CEO repeats at every chance? I have communicated design strategy outputs slightly differently on each project, depending on clients' broader organizational shapes, competencies, and goals. I have found that effective design strategies exist at multiple levels of detail, to be used in different circumstances. They can have catchy short names, short but informative stories that plant narrative seeds, summarizing visual
[IxDA Discuss] Prospective IxD student seeking some portfolio / grad program advice
Hi! I'm a recent member to this site, and to the IxD world. I've got two questions at the moment that I'd love some input on. a) What are my options? The programs I've come across and am planning to apply to are: CMU's Masters in Interaction Design and possibly the Comm Planning and Information Design program as well IIT in Chicago School of Visual Arts in New York is starting an Interaction Design program for the first time in Fall of '09 NYU? There's the Interactive Telephony Program which I need to look into to find out what it's all about. I know the choices are somewhat limited, so I'm curious if there are schools that I've missed - I don't have a design background and am not sure how strong my portfolio will be, so I'd like to apply to a number of schools. b) I'm not a designer! (yet) I'm suffering from portfolio phobia. I studied English Lit in college, then taught Special Education for 5 years and worked as a technical trainer for a VOIP company for 2. I'm going to try to lean on my experience in the last job (the most satisfying part of it involved providing user feedback to the engineering team and helping guide development of their Web Portal and the menu layout on the phones' displays). My concern, however, is my lack of tangible products to put into a portfolio. My next step will be contacting the programs to ask for their advice (actually headed to an SVA open house in about an hour), but I'm curious if anyone who's in or went to grad school would be willing to share some of their portfolio work, or if anyone can point me towards resources that will help me get some direction in creating dummy design projects I can use as portfolio pieces. Thanks so much! Aaron 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Confirm password field - Superfluous?
Why not let the user decide! Make the confirm password field optional and label it thusly. Only validate against it if it is not null! Cheers, Jacob 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Calendar IA
Two things: 1 - I think you should add the range on the right for competitions. I'm thinking about the case when it is showing up because the end date hasn't passed, but I'm actually too early and it hasn't started yet either. There needs to be some visual cue that I can't enter the competition and I need to know when I could. I think changing the text that is the link to: This competition hasn't started. Learn More or the like would do that and then if the dates were listed in a range I would be able to figure out when it would start, without clicking through. 2 - I think the bigger issue might be how competitions and dates are displayed on the left hand calendar. I think it would be better if competitions were shown as blocks of days with the same colour. Of course this could get rather rainbow if there are a bunch of competitions in a month, so perhaps just switching between two colors to differentiate. Don't know if you are going to be producing this as well, but the YUI calendar component could make things a bit easier: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26554 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Form Validation
I would highlight something Bryan said above. Back end error checking is important, but why not use some front end JavaScript to check for simple things like blank fields. With unobtrusive JavaScript you can set a script up once and apply it to all your forms easily. You can see an example here: http://shoeinthedoor.com/testing/form-validation.htm It's rather simple and could use some more work, but it gives you an idea of what you can do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24099 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
