Category: user experience
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On UX Deliverables, Accessibility, Education and Portfolios
I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. I answered the following questions in June. Is it worth learning UI or UX design? Do you actually use it to build a product? Answered Jun 30 UX…
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On UX Deliverables, Hardware and Being a UX Designer and a Fine Artist
I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. I answered the following questions in May. What are the UX design deliverables? Answered May 24 Early in the history is ASIST’s Information Architecture Summit, there was…
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Portfolio: IDEF Registry
Client: OASIS/Identity Ecosystem Steering GroupVisit Website My Role I led user testing for the Identity Ecosystem Framework (IDEF) Registry as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identity in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a White House initiative. The IDEF Registry, a digital identity standard assessment tool, launched its alpha version on June 6, 2016. Because development of the alpha version…
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What to Ask? Contract to Permanent Salary
So you’ve been offered a job at a company where you are doing contract work. That’s great news! You’ve shown them your value and they trust you and want you on the team permanently. But you may be thinking, “Am I at a disadvantage in negotiating a salary? The client already knows what they are…
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Is 38 Too Old to Start a Career as a UX Designer?
I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. A lot of what makes a good UX designer/researcher/architect are the soft skills that you only really develop having been in the working world for a while,…
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ID Ecosystem Framework Draft Published
Pleased to see the DRAFT IDEF Baseline Functional Requirements v1.0 have been released. I am proud to serve as the Vice Chair of the User Experience Committee and would love to hear comments on the Usability guidelines.
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Better Experience is the Payoff in Education
In Jon Kolko’s article, “Why Investment in Design is the Only Way to ‘Win’ in Education” (UX Magazine, September 16, 2014), he discusses how the value proposition of educational technology should be better education, and that the design of that experience should not be simply a “forgivable attribute.” “…for us to collectively realize the benefits…
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West 104th Street Block Association Moves Ahead with Student Design
The West 104th Street Block Association voted to adopt the website design and strategy developed by my team at Pratt Institute. The new web design will update the association’s site from the outdated world of frames and IE4 era optimization to a sleek, modern WordPress interface. Key improvements include an organized layout, legible fonts, searchable…
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Fall Projects: User Research
My Information Architecture class conducted a semester-long, group project to develop a website prototype for a small business or nonprofit group. My group, including Eleanor Meyer, Jan Diolola, Storey Radziunas and me, formed a group called Community Design and selected the West 104th Street Block Association as our client. Since I have a prior relationship…
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IA Institute 2010 Salary and Benefits Survey
The IA Institute released its 2010 IA Institute Salary and Benefits Survey. Highlights of the 2010 Salary Survey include: Median Salary: The highest salary range was a tie between the USD$80,000-90,000 and USD$90,000-100,000 ranges, each representing 12.8% of the total responses. The average salary was estimated to be USD$95,252, up $5,252 from 2009.