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A quick update for you to let you know all the exciting perm roles are currently looking to fill: Senior UX Architects UX Architects Business Analysts (Retail and Financial Services) Project Managers (Retail and Financial Services) Associate Creative Director Senior UI Developer Senior Designers I have full job specs for each of these and ...

Thanks to all of you that have emailed me regarding my post, I do enjoy the emails that I receive from around the world - and there were a number of questions posed that I decided to add as a supplement Blog post to the original post from yesterday... First off, questions around the iTunes image that was posted... I used to live in the ...

With Midem  only two weeks away, the South of France will again, be a stage for the music industry to work itself into a frenzy to figure out the best route forward into discovering how to rescue itself from the brink of its own self-importance/ destruction. I’ve attended, spoke & networked through many of these events in ...

Have you ever wanted to create a new and different User Experience on top of a tried and true delivery platform? That is just what a new book published by Apress and written by my EMC Colleague Erik Swenson teaches people how to do.  I recently had the pleasure of previewing a copy and participating in editing those chapters that pertained ...

A good SharePoint corporate intranet site is concerned in many ways with empowering collaboration between employees and facilitating more effective internal communications.  It may also be about promoting better document management policies and procedures, and making people more effective in their respective positions by giving them easy ...

We’re delighted to be hosting UX Sketch Club again. The next session is next week – Tuesday 1st November. Read all about it at http://groupspaces.com/UXSketchClub/item/194514 At this sketchclub we will look at visual explanations. How can we put our thoughts into clear structures that explain a problem, a system, a process, a product,... We'll ...

Global Site Mapping exercise from World Reserve Financial client

This is an example of an introductory UX exercise used to derive User Classes, Targeted Content, and Task Analysis

As an enthusiast of Software Development, I imagine that You have already been exposed to the term 'Personas' before in the context of a User Centered Design discussion.  In this article I intend to explain what 'User Journeys' are, how to create them, and why they are more appropriate for use in an enterprise Corporate Intranet design ...

In my last post, I described the somewhat painful experience I had doing QA on a system I had designed, but where the designs were “thrown over the wall” to the development team. I’m still mulling over what lesson I can draw from this. The basic problem was that I found all sorts of conditions which we hadn’t factored in to the initial ...