{"id":332,"date":"2008-07-22T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=332"},"modified":"2008-07-22T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:51:47","slug":"ueurui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/07\/ueurui\/","title":{"rendered":"UE<\/span>\/UR<\/span>\/UI<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often that I have a blog title that\u2019s only acronyms (in fact, I think this is a first), and it\u2019s also a first in that I\u2019m post\u00ading look\u00ading for someone to join the team and pro\u00adject I\u2019m on. I can\u00ad\u2019t write much about the pro\u00adject itself here, since we\u2019re still in stealth mode, but I can write quite a bit about who we\u2019re look\u00ading for. Experts in the above acronyms is the short ver\u00adsion (the mean\u00adings in this con\u00adtext being user exper\u00adi\u00adence, user research, and user inter\u00adface design); for the longer ver\u00adsion you\u2019ll need to jump past the break.<\/p>\n

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The pro\u00adject I\u2019m work\u00ading on (actu\u00adally, I\u2019m pro\u00adgram man\u00adager for it), is a lot of fun. It\u2019s a research pro\u00adject, so the work we\u2019re doing may or may not end up in one or more of Sun\u00ad\u2019s products at some stage. We will be releas\u00ading the code to open source, how\u00adever, so your work will even\u00adtu\u00adally be out in the pub\u00adlic view no mat\u00adter what. One of the focus points for this pro\u00adject is usab\u00adil\u00adity, coupled with rad\u00adic\u00adally innov\u00adat\u00adive design. To com\u00adbine rad\u00adic\u00adal design with usab\u00adil\u00adity requires user research, which means talk\u00ading to real people, con\u00adduct\u00ading focus groups, ask\u00ading people what they want, watch\u00ading them as they use the pro\u00adto\u00adtypes. In oth\u00ader words, it requires test\u00ading your design ideas to ensure that being rad\u00adic\u00adal has\u00adn\u2019t detrac\u00adted from being usable. You\u2019d be expec\u00adted to take the lead on writ\u00ading the screen\u00aders and run\u00adning the focus groups, eval\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading the responses, and chan\u00adging the UI<\/span> designs to make them even more usable.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re look\u00ading for design\u00aders, not developers, although if you can design and code that would be wel\u00adcome. The loc\u00ada\u00adtion is flex\u00adible as long as you can keep the same core work\u00ading hours as most of the team, roughly 9 am to 2 pm Pacific time. You need to be able to work effi\u00adciently with oth\u00ader team mem\u00adbers using phone, email, and IM<\/span>, as we\u2019re spread across four coun\u00adtries and 9 timezones and typ\u00adic\u00adally only meet face to face as a team once a year for a couple of days.<\/p>\n

For more inform\u00ada\u00adtion, send me an email. This is a fun pro\u00adject, the most fun in a pro\u00adject that I\u2019ve had for some years now, and all we need right now is to find the right UI<\/span>\/UE<\/span>\/UR<\/span> expert to add to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often that I have a blog title that\u2019s only acronyms (in fact, I think this is a first), and it\u2019s also a first in that I\u2019m post\u00ading look\u00ading for someone to join the team and pro\u00adject I\u2019m on. I can\u00ad\u2019t write much about the pro\u00adject itself here, since we\u2019re still in stealth mode, \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cUE<\/span>\/UR<\/span>\/UI<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}