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Michael Albers | 21 May 2013 16:42
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[Sigia-l] CFP -- Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI)

Call for papers

3rd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI)
February 24-25, 2014
East Carolina University
Greenville NC

For the full call for papers: http://workshop.design4complexity.com/home.php

Symposium goals

Building on the success of the previous two conferences, the Symposium 
on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) explores the relationships 
between and within the contexts that affect complex information, 
information design, information architecture, user experience, and 
usability. It seeks to examine how design choices influence people’s 
behavior when interacting with complex information, and how the 
knowledge of situation contexts improves the design of complex 
information systems. The intention of SCCI is to foster an integrated 
approach to the design of complex information by bringing together 
members of the various research and practitioner communities.

Goals of this symposium are to build upon what we already know about 
communicating complex information across the spectrum of casual users to 
domain experts and clarify our understanding of what issues urgently 
need further research.

Keynote address will be by Whitney Quesenbery.

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Tom Donehower | 21 May 2013 19:34
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[Sigia-l] Mega Dropdowns Good or Bad?

Hi,

Was in a meeting with a client on Friday showing a redesigned website that
used Mega-dropdowns. Client said the site looked nice, but that he felt
persistent left or right navigation was more useable than mega-dropdowns.

The marketing team at the client was pushing against persistent left or
right nav because they said it made the site design feel dated. It does
seem like it's fading ever since Jacob Neilsen published his article on the
usability of megas.
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mega-menus-work-well/

I was asked my opinion and said it basically depends on what the user is
trying to do. If they're navigating to a section and most likely looking
for one thing among many options, then mega-dropdown should be fine.
However, if the user is navigating to a section and has the need to browse
across sub-categories in that section then some sort of persistent
navigation makes sense.

Perhaps the best approach is not Either/Or but some sort of combination of
the two schemes.

2 questions for the community:

1. What's your opinion of the usability of megas vs. old-school persistent
left and right nav?

2. Have you seen any other forms of persistent nav schemes beyond the
traditional left and right that work well?
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Tom Donehower | 20 May 2013 19:32
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[Sigia-l] Persistent Nav vs. Mega Dropdowns

Hi,

Was in a meeting with a client on Friday showing a redesigned website that
used Mega-dropdowns. Client said the site looked nice, but that he felt
persistent left or right navigation was more useable than mega-dropdowns.

The marketing team at the client was pushing against persistent left or
right nav because they said it made the site design feel dated. It does
seem like it's fading ever since Jacob Neilsen published his article on the
usability of megas.
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mega-menus-work-well/

I was asked my opinion and said it basically depends on what the user is
trying to do. If they're navigating to a section and most likely looking
for one thing among many options, then mega-dropdown should be fine.
However, if the user is navigating to a section and has the need to browse
across sub-categories in that section then some sort of persistent
navigation makes sense.

Perhaps the best approach is not Either/Or but some sort of combination of
the two schemes.

2 questions for the community:

1. What's your opinion of the usability of megas vs. old-school persistent
left and right nav?

2. Have you seen any other forms of persistent nav schemes beyond the
traditional left and right that work well?
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Michael Albers | 15 May 2013 15:21
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[Sigia-l] CFP - SIGDOC extended to June 1

After numerous requests, we are extending the due date for papers, 
project reports, and panel proposals to June 1.

We are especially interested in receiving project reports that describe 
your real-world experiences with either IA or content strategy issues.

You are invited to participate in the ACM Special Interest Group on 
Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference, September 30th – 
October 1st, 2013 in Greenville, North Carolina.

The SIGDOC call for presentations is now available at:

http://sigdoc.acm.org/2013/

Please consider submitting a project report, research paper, panel 
sessions, or poster session on the design of communication for 
interactive systems in industry, education, recreation, scientific 
research, and social exchange.

SIGDOC conferences address issues of interest to people in interaction 
design, content strategy, information architecture, user experience, and 
technical communication.

SIGDOC focuses on the design of communication as it is taught, 
practiced, researched, and conceptualized. Members of SIGDOC are an 
interdisciplinary mix of professionals and academics in information 
architecture, experience design, user research, content strategy, 
technical communication, education, information science, and computer 
science.
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Ben Clarfelt | 13 May 2013 18:22
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[Sigia-l] User Experience Contract, 2 Months, London, £350 - £400 (Campaigns Project)

UX Contractor required for innovative and exciting campaigns project, opportunity to work on a project
that will make a noticeable difference to the average consumer. Joining the project at the beginning of
the design and build sprints your role will be to evolve the IA and interaction design deliverables, so
experience in looking into and creating complex user journeys will be key.

Experience in user research and testing will also be helpful.

You will be leasing with different stakeholders of different levels so need to be confident in presenting
your work back and defending your UX decisions.

Project is around 6 - 8 weeks with the likelihood of extension.

Great company to work for, great team,  good work to life balance, working hours are 9am to 5pm.

£350 - £400

If this sounds like you then please send your CV and portfolio to
ben <at> zebrapeopel.com<mailto:ben <at> zebrapeopel.com> or call me on 0207 729 4771 for more detail.

Thanks Ben.

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Tom Donehower | 8 May 2013 19:19
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[Sigia-l] Great Examples of Faceted Navigation/Search

Hi,

Looking for great examples of faceted nav/search. Looking for examples that
allow the user to select multiple categories and sub-categories and filter
or narrow their results.

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Ben Clarfelt | 7 May 2013 17:04
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[Sigia-l] Mobile User Experience Contract, 4 - 6 weeks, London, £350 - £400

Mobile UX contractor required for 4 - 6 week UX contract.

Working on a very exciting mobile UX gig for an exciting brief that has just reached the design stage.
Important you have iOS app UX experience and any experience in designing or simply understanding the
technical constraints of augmented reality will be beneficial.

Important you can produce high fidelity wireframes.

You will need to bring your own computer for the project.

£350 - £400 + a day.
Start Date; 13/5/13
Location; London.

If this sounds like you then please send your CV and portfolio to
ben <at> zebrapeople.com<mailto:ben <at> zebrapeople.com> or give me a call on 0207 729 4771 for more details.

Thanks Ben.

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Michael Albers | 5 May 2013 15:46
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[Sigia-l] CFP -- SIGDOC 2013 papers due May 15th

Papers are due May 15th.

You are invited to participate in the ACM Special Interest Group on 
Design of   Communication (SIGDOC) 2013 conference, September 30th – 
October 1st, 2013 in Greenville,   North Carolina.

The SIGDOC call for presentations is now available at:

http://sigdoc.acm.org/2013/

Please consider submitting a project report, research paper, panel 
sessions, or poster session on the   design of communication for 
interactive systems in industry, education, recreation,   scientific 
research, and social exchange.

SIGDOC conferences address issues of interest to people in interaction 
design, content   strategy, information architecture, user experience, 
and technical communication.

SIGDOC focuses on the design of communication as it is taught, 
practiced, researched, and  conceptualized. Members of SIGDOC are an 
interdisciplinary mix of professionals and   academics in information 
architecture, experience design, user research, content strategy, 
technical communication, education, information science, and computer 
science.
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Ben Clarfelt | 2 May 2013 18:35
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[Sigia-l] Senior User Researcher, London, Charity (Socially Enabling Organisation)

Senior User Researcher required for leading socially enabling organisation, an organisation which
really champions the user.

The Company

My client is a leader in the publishing organisation with over half a million paying subscribers with an
ever increasing amount of those paying subscriptions coming from digital subscription. Company really
is a true champion of the consumer.

Companies digital offering is huge, always designing cross platform and responsive solutions.

Great company to work for, 28 days holiday, good work to life balance, 9am to 5pm to name a few of their perks.

The Role

Very exciting role, diverse mix of hands on user research and more strategic research helping to define
their research offering, promoting it internally and ultimately acting as an evangelist for research
across the business.
Currently have a small team of researchers, looking for you to come in and integrate the research offering
and bring new research ideas to the company.

The role will be a mix of qualitative and quantitative research and will range from more guerrilla based
testing to larger research or testing.  Looking to bring in more A/B testing, multi variant testing so any
knowledge of that will be useful.
Client works in an agile, lean environment so it's important you can be flexible in your approach and often
work to quick deadlines.

Part of your role will be more strategic, looking into how research fits into all the projects, looking into
new research methodologies and promoting the importance of user research throughout the business and
especially to quite high end stakeholders.
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Ben Clarfelt | 1 May 2013 19:08
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[Sigia-l] UX Contract - London - E commerce, Fashion, £400

Senior UX Architect required for leading digital agency for a 4 - 6 week project. You will be working on a
major European fashion brand working across their multi - device e commerce experience.

You will work collaboratively with the creative team to ultimately create the best fashion ecommerce site
out there.

You will produce a range of UX deliverables from sketching, wireframes, user journeys to prototypes.

Nice to haves are experience working with high end brands, ideally fashion, mobile and tablet and e
commerce experience.

Important you have a portfolio or some work examples you can send across.

Day Rate; £350 - £450
Location; London

If this sounds like you then please send your CV to ben <at> zebrapeople.com<mailto:ben <at> zebrapeople.com> or 
call me to find out more on 0207 729 4771.

Thanks Ben.

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Ben Clarfelt | 1 May 2013 16:52
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[Sigia-l] User Experience Contract - CRM Project - £350 - £400

Hey,

I'm currently looking for a UX contractor for a 4 -6 week project working on a CRM based project. Client is a
socially enabling organisation who strives to help the consumer.

You will be working on a project that is currently in the delivery sprint stage so you will be joining at a
point when there is an initial concept however this still needs to be defined further.

Experience within CRM related projects or experience capturing data, conversion and understating the
technical constraints of data will be useful. Experience in the full UCD lifecycle is important and
ability to work with multiple stakeholders is useful.

You will be working very collaboratively and it's important your comfortable joining a project half way
through and have the ability to get up to speed quickly.

£350 - £400 a day.

Ideally starting within the next week.

If this sounds like you then please send your CV to ben <at> zebrapeople.com<mailto:ben <at> zebrapeople.com> or
call me on 0207 729 4771.

Thanks Ben.

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