Check them out on this site! Thanks to Joe!

[Apologies for cross posting]

Colleagues,

Unfortunately, our speaker is quite sick and won't be able to attend
tomorrow. In light of this, we decided to move the venue for tomorrow
night to the location of last month's meeting: The Barrel Thief Wine
Shop in ShortPump. We'll also keep you updated on when we can
reschedule Stacy to come to speak to the group.

What:  RUX (Richmond Users Group) Meeting
Where: The Barrel Thief Wine Shop (http://www.barrelthiefwine.com/)
When: March 26th, 2008, 6pm
Topic: Informal Round tables - We'll also talk about next month's
presentation

Reservations are under RUX.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Susan

Hello everyone,

If you have not yet had a chance to fill out the survey we sent out
after the first RUX meetup, please do so. It's still up at survey
monkey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MzNfCQSTaoMBjjz2Kqjcvw_3d_3d

We'd love to hear your comments. I have received several emails today
about wanting more formal meetings. Please don't hesitate to continue
to email, post a message to this discussion board or comment on this
thread with your thoughts and ideas.

And speaking of formal meetings...:)
We're looking for volunteers to present in May, June or July on
IA/Usability, Interaction Design and/or related topics. Contact me or
talk to me at tonight's meetup if you're interested.

Hi all,

one idea that I had last night was to have a deliverables night--a
chance to show (scrubbed) deliverables such as wireframes, user/task
matrixes, personas, POCs, prototypes...in short, things that you've
used successfully. Be neat to talk about the tools you used, why you
did what you did, and how it was received.

Best,

joe

From Triangle User Experience (triux.org):

As our User Experience Design Manager, you'll develop, evangelize and
execute the vision for both consumer-facing experiences (online and
in-store) for Nike's digital commerce-enabled sites. You'll be
responsible for benchmarking, conceptualizing, innovating and
developing an overall Experience Map for your respective area. You'll
work closely with internal functional groups, regional teams and
agencies to define next-generation consumer experiences. You'll
provide the overall vision and strategic leadership to drive the
global Experience Roadmap; collaborate with the regional, functional
and affiliate business teams, and with key strategic agencies to
establish the direction for interface design on Nike digital
properties; develop a global roadmap for interface development that
supports emerging digital commerce capabilities; and provide support
for regional and global initiatives that require interface design.
You'll collaborate with functional regional leads to establish project
goals and success metrics. You'll also establish vision and guidelines
that establish Nike as an authentic sports brand online and organize
our online capabilities in an easy-to-use, intuitive way. You'll
develop and apply new capabilities, future product concept integration
and connection/translation to non-digital consumer experiences and
executions, and lead third-party site collaborations and integration.
You'll also ensure the seamless digital consumer experience in all
retail, event, studio and other physical executions of our digital
commerce sites. You'll translate new ideas and concepts into relevant,
value-adding elements and stay up to speed on any significant digital
trends, and showcase the ability to adjust digital strategies and
executions accordingly. You'll also be relied on to stay intimately
aware of key regional and seasonal initiatives, and provide enticing,
innovative consumer experiences in support of those. You'll facilitate
regular and consistent site and consumer analysis to fuel future
experience design, and seek out industry benchmarking to ground Nike's
current level of experience within and across industries so an
improvement plan can be designed and continuously monitored. You'll
also manage agency relationships and specific projects. In addition,
you'll establish leadership summits across our internal and external
partners to develop consensus and communicate Nike's Experience
Roadmap across our digital commerce sites.

Requirements for the position include:

Bachelor's degree
6-10 years' experience in experience design or product management in
the software industry, preferably ASP or SAAS
Extensive experience in consumer eCommerce website development and in
experience design specific to digital
Strong understanding of Flash and Java
Ability to understand the complex agency processes used to develop
websites (strategy, conceptualizing, visual design, interaction design
and production)
Extensive experience working at senior levels to define target
experiences that map to consumer needs in a way that is brand
conscious and highly usable
To work at Nike, you don't need to be an athlete. But you need to
think like one. We do more than just sports. We do life. And we love
what we do.

» View all our open positions
http://www.jobster.com/outreach/jobs?i=A8bmbBX-KQ%3D%3D

Comments:

Hi all,

I'm a local ambassador for UXnet (http://uxnet.org/). As its page
says, "UXnet creates effective, functional, and strategic networks to
enable cross-disciplinary collaboration between user experience
professionals. We connect people, organizations, resources, and ideas
to enable the growth and maturation of User Experience as a practice,
a community, and eventually a discipline."

To that end, it's a source for happenigns, news, events, and other
stuff around UX. It also provides an intersection of different
organizations that touch on UX. So, if you know of anything UX-ish
going on in the area, let me know & I'll post it to the UXnet events list.

I thought this was a great idea! We could do our own deliverables
"wall" like the IA summit. Interested in doing this in June?


--- In richmondux@yahoogroups.com, "jsokohl" <joe@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> one idea that I had last night was to have a deliverables night--a
> chance to show (scrubbed) deliverables such as wireframes, user/task
> matrixes, personas, POCs, prototypes...in short, things that you've
> used successfully. Be neat to talk about the tools you used, why you
> did what you did, and how it was received.
>
> Best,
>
> joe
>

[Apologies for cross posting]

Colleagues,

Please join us!

What:  RUX (Richmond Users Group) Meeting
Where: Ironworks
When: April 30th, 2008, 6pm
Topic: We're very excited that Stacy Surla from the DC IA group will
be our guest speaker.
She'll be talking about Starting IA Locals and Bringing IA to Work
RSVP: seteague@... by Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Thanks to Ironworks, Stacy Surla and Candace Nicholls for making this
event possible.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Best,
Susan

I thought this was an interesting questionnaire poste to the SIG-IA
list today:
Towards a Shared Definition of User Experience
http://cost294.org/sig-ux-questionnaire.html

From the Web site:
Motivation
The lack of a shared definition of User eXperience (UX) not only
confuses or even misleads users/customers of a product/service, but
also undermines the effectiveness of researching, managing and
teaching UX. It is a challenge to reach a shared definition of UX by
converging different understandings about the meaning and scope of UX.
SIG UX at CHI'08 tackles this challenge by assembling a set of
existing definitions and viewpoints of UX and collecting opinions on
them from known UX researchers and practitioners as well as general
CHI'08 attendees with this questionnaire.


Best,
Susan

[Apologies for cross posting]

Colleagues,

Please don't forget to RSVP for our April meeting at Ironworks!!

What:  RUX (Richmond Users Group) Meeting
Where: Ironworks
When: April 30th, 2008, 6pm
Topic: We're very excited that Stacy Surla from the DC IA group will
be our guest speaker.
She'll be talking about Starting IA Locals and Bringing IA to Work
RSVP: seteague@... by Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Need to know more? Join our Yahoo! group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondux/

Thanks to Ironworks, Stacy Surla and Candace Nicholls for making this
event possible.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Best,
Susan

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
richmondux group:

What day would you prefer to meet?

   o Last Wednesday of the Month
   o Last Thursday of the Month


To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondux/surveys?id=2038830

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
web site listed above.

Thanks!

Keane is currently looking to hire an Information Architect who can
work as a senior user experience consultant to join our Management and
Information Technology Consulting group. The position is a full-time
salaried role with benefits and has the potential for extensive
travel. Candidates must live close to a major airport--that means a
direct flight possibility to Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, and so on.

As the ideal candidate for this position you must have a deep
understanding of usability design issues and extensive experience
designing IA/software solutions for large scale websites and systems.
You must be able to produce designs that leverage previous learning
and consider how seemingly disparate systems may work together to
create efficiencies.

Ability to define interaction needs and communicate these through
succinct deliverables is required. You must be comfortable working in
diverse teams while facilitating the development of design solutions.
Paramount, you must be comfortable working with system architects,
data architects, business analysts, and project managers n teams that
have direct C-level exposure.
In addition, you must be a frequent participant in the UX community.
Organizations like the IA Institute, the UPA, and ACM are familiar to
you. You can share an extensive list of people whose writings and
blogs you follow and admire, and you can also represent yourself well
in the community.

* Manage contractors and partners as needed.
* Perform expert reviews on concepts and wire frames and integrate
this into the design process on an iterative basis by presenting the
findings and suggesting changes where necessary.
* Mentor offshore UX teams, both remotely and when they are landed in
North America.

Work with the Director of User Experience to drive long term IA
strategy and vision.
In this capacity:
* Lead user experience strategy implementation across websites and systems
* Define reusable user experience models/patterns
* Mentor other team members (both regionally and internationally) on
approach and strategy.
Job qualifications

Qualifications
* Minimum of a BS degree in Humanities, Interaction Design, Cognitive
Psychology, Industrial Design or related discipline required.
Recommend MS degree.
* At least 5 years of UX experience in a consulting (preferred) or
corporate environment required.
* Proven experience translating business strategies into conceptual
diagrams, task flows, and site maps using standardized tools and
techniques required. Strong experience with Visio or OmniGraffle
preferred.
* Ability to lead high-level, cross-functional definition meetings
that map out the user experience of new projects.
* Experience managing information architecture or interaction design
on large-scale projects required. Managing internal and contract
employees essential.
* Background in contextual inquiry, task analysis and some interaction
design.
How to apply

Interested?

Send email with your resume to david_luscombe@...

http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah/how-to-be-a-ux-team-of-one

Hi all,
A lot of you have probably seen this, but here's an interesting
article that was in Mark Hurst's Good Experience newsletter today. It
seems like a good summary of some easy best practices.

http://goodexperience.com/2008/05/the-top-8-mistakes-in.php

Pizza and card sorting at the Richmond User Experience Group (RUX)
monthly meeting

When
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Where
Circuit City Corporate HQ
9950 Mayland Drive
Deep Run 1
Richmond Virginia 23233
Map and directions: http://tinyurl.com/5ftcz9

What's going on
5:00 - 6:00     Social hour (with free pizza and soda)
6:00 - 8:00     Presentation: Applied Card Sorting: A Case Study in
e-Commerce Taxonomy Research


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Sam Chapman and Tom Illmensee will give the RUX community a preview of
their upcoming Usability Professionals Association conference
presentation on card sorting.

In June 2007, Circuit City's IA and Usability Team conducted a series
of open card sorts to help evaluate the taxonomy of circuitcity.com.
Sam and Tom will share their experiences as the primary researchers on
the project. They will describe the method in detail, explore
unanticipated challenges, and explain the techniques used for analysis.

The presentation is designed to let other practitioners in the
audience share their card sorting war stories.

The presenters invite the RUX community to critique the presentation
to help sharpen it before taking it on the road (UPA).

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Seating is limited to 25, so RSVP early!


RSVP to Tom Illmensee at Thomas_Illmensee@... or Susan
Teague Rector at seteague@... by Monday, May 26, 2008.

Look forward to seeing you there!

- the RUX Planning Group

I was checking out the Slashdot.com RSS feed and stumbled upon this
article today. I found it interesting that Gartner cited "User
interface" as one of the top 10 upcoming technologies in the next 4
years. Not to mention the other Web-related items. You've got to love
that job security. ;-)

-Greg K

Source:
http://businessofit.blogspot.com/2008/05/gartner-reveals-top-10-technologies.htm\
l

/* Complete article follows sans comments */

Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies

"The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10
technologies that they believe will change the world over the next
four years:

    1. Multicore and hybrid processors
    2. Virtualization and fabric computing
    3. Social networks and social software
    4. Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
    5. Web mashups
    6. User Interface
    7. Ubiquitous computing
    8. Contextual computing
    9. Augmented reality
   10. Semantics


What caught my attention were items 1-4. I think that Gartner got it
right this time around. Muticore servers and virtualization will mean
that firms will need fewer boxes and apps can be easily moved from box
to box (and right out the door to an outsourced data center).
Workplace social networks and cloud computing means that the need for
a centralized IT department will go away. Firms will no longer need to
own/maintain the boxes that they use to run their firm's apps. With no
need to touch a box, there will be no need to have the IT staff
co-located with the boxes. Oh, oh -- can you hear your job going away?

What does this all mean, and more importantly what should a successful
IT staffer (or CIO) do today? The key to your future success is to
understand how IT is going to change and what you need to do to change
with it. IT is going to become much more about information and how it
can be used to help the business grow and prosper. This IT function is
going to leave the IT department as we know it today and will migrate
into the business unit itself. What this means to you is that you need
to know what your firm does, and even more importantly, how it does
it. The next question will be what information is needed by the
business units to improve how they do their work. This is what
tomorrow's IT staff will provide. Thanks Gartner for the peek into the
future!

This is Andy; I joined the group about two months ago, but haven't
made it out to a RUX event yet.

I plan on attending the Refresh sponsored meeting on the 17th and look
forward to meeting you all there!

hi Andy,
Welcome! We look forward to meeting you.
Cheers, Susan

--- In richmondux@yahoogroups.com, "pemberton.andy" <pembertona@...>
wrote:
>
> This is Andy; I joined the group about two months ago, but haven't
> made it out to a RUX event yet.
>
> I plan on attending the Refresh sponsored meeting on the 17th and look
> forward to meeting you all there!
>

Hi all,

If you're up for a DC trip in August, check this out:

======
With a date like 8/8/08, we couldn't pass up an opportunity to launch
EightShapes' public workshops!

And so, join us on August 8 for the first of a series of public workshops.
We'll start with our sweet spot, documentation, and see where it goes.

Since it's our first, the workshop on 8/8/08 is specially priced at $345.

Want to create better documents?

Attend a one-day documentation workshop on hosted by EightShapes.

Date: August 8, 2008 (9am – 5pm)
Location: Cafritz Conference Center, on the GW campus in downtown
Washington, DC (metro accessible!)
Cost: $345, includes morning and afternoon sessions, materials, and lunch
Register (via PayPal): http://eightshapes.com/workshop.php

EightShapes believes in great documentation, whether we create it for you,
or help you to do it yourself. This Documentation Workshop is our first
public training event, intended to take your wireframes, flows, and
patterns
from "good enough" to "more than enough".

This workshop is for user experience professionals at all levels who
create
detailed documentation as part of their work.

The Schedule:

Morning
Documentation Fundamentals with Dan Brown: Spend four hours with the
author
of Communicating Design—the only book on user experience design
documentation—as he leads you through an exploration of wireframes and
flows.

Afternoon
Advanced Wireframing and Annotations with Nathan Curtis: Take your
wireframes to the next level by energizing your annotations, providing
more
structure, more detail, and more polish.

Conclusion
Sit through the credits and you'll get more than a Samuel L. Jackson
cameo.
EightShapes will demonstrate a version of the documentation system used by
many of their clients. The system provides a foundation for creating
essential user experience documents efficiently and consistently.

The Location:

The event will take place at the Marvin Center of the Cafritz Conference
Center, located on the George Washington University campus in Washington,
DC.

To Register:

Visit http://eightshapes.com/workshop.php for more information and to
reserve your spot. We look forward to seeing you there!

--

Dan Brown, Principal • (301) 801-4850
EightShapes, LLC • eightshapes.com
Also at: communicatingdesign.com • greenonions.com

I found a nice case study on the redesign of the GUI for Wells Fargo's
ATM machines. Granted, the Pentagram team was able to do a lot more
given the change to a touch screen interface but they really did a
good job exceeding the user's (and my) expectations...

Full article:
http://physicalinterface.com/view/that-design-is-money

Excerpts:
"...The objective for the new UI was to continue to offer quick and
easy cash withdrawals, while making the other services more visible
and accessible. Some of these services, such as purchasing stamps and
printing account statements, can be convenient for customers and they
save a trip to the post office or branch office. For Wells Fargo, it
is an additional source of revenue..." (Don't we all know this one!)

"...We thought that the new UI could be better than that. Instead of
just offering generic choices and complicated customization
procedures, the ATM should learn by itself what individual customers
do most often, and then make those things easier to accomplish..."

-Greg Kloiber

New City Media is looking for someone to lead our team in the area of
user experience and information architecture. Our current Director of
User Experience, Jim Vogt, is going off to graduate school at Carnegie
Mellon. We’re excited for him but it leaves us with a big hole!

You might be the person to fill it if:

you'€™re ready to lead our clients through the process of
understanding
their audiences, uncovering the real story, and designing experiences
that move people to act.

you've got 5 or more years experience working with user experience/
human factors/human computer interaction/information architecture -
whatever you want to call it. Not just building web sites - you need
to know your UX stuff. If you've never heard of Jared Spool, Jakob
Nielson, Steve Krug or Jesse James Garrett, don’t bother to apply.

you enjoy mentoring and developing the strengths of others.

you like the idea of working in small teams with peers. By
β€œpeers” we
mean people who know their stuff and can be counted on to deliver. Not
a lot of hierarchy or bureaucracy.

you're comfortable giving presentations and teaching user experience
principles in any setting.

you want to live in a high-tech college town in the mountains, while
working for world-class clients. Think œ10 minute commute€ and
€œ20
minutes to the Appalachian Trail.

You’ll lead the efforts of 3-4 other UX architects, in addition to
working on your own projects. For each project, you’ll work with a
project manager who will be responsible for more of the business side
of the project. The UX architect uncovers client goals, researches
audience needs, and creates an overall plan for the experience. He or
she then stays involved throughout the project to ensure that as the
designs come together and production moves forward, the project is
staying true to the original vision in every aspect. While keeping the
client’s goals in mind, the UX architect is an advocate for the
overall delight of the end-user.

New City Media is 19 people creating online experiences that help our
clients tell their stories with impact. Our clients include National
Geographic Magazine, Virginia Tech, Imperial College London and Kiawah
Island. We’re located in the Corporate Research Center adjacent to
Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The CRC is home to over 150
technology companies with more than 2,000 total employees.

We offer a competitive salary based on your qualifications and
experience. Send your resume and work samples by email to Jane Horner
at jane@.... No phone calls please.

----------------------------------------------------------
David Poteet | President | New City Media
P: 540.552.1320 x206 F: 540.552.5493 C: 540.818.0183

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." – C.S. Lewis

This may be old news for some (It is June, isn't it?) but U.S. News
and World Report claims that the career of "Usability/User Experience
Specialist" is one of the best this year.

Full report:
http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers/best-careers-2008.html

Details on Usability/User Experience Specialist:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/usabilityuser-ex\
perience-specialist-executive-summary.html

Woot!
Greg Kloiber

P.S. Nice meeting some more of you guys tonight at the Refresh
Richmond meeting. Next time I'll stick around for drinks.

An interview w/Schalk Neethling (of dzone.com) on how Web
Accessibility can affect the bottom line:
http://css.dzone.com/news/web-accessibility-and-your-bus

This is a spin-off of the quick conversation we had at the Refresh
Richmond/User Group meet-up a few weeks back, for those who were there.

This is the kind of material that business owners need to read to
understand the importance of web standards and accessibility.

What do you all think?

Smashingmagazine.com just did a good study/article on design patterns
of sign-up forms and part 2 just came out today...

Part 1:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-form\
s/

Part 2:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/08/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-form\
s-part-2/

"Bottom line" from both parts of the study of 100 sites:

• the registration link is titled "sign up" (40%) and placed in the
right upper corner,
• sign-up forms have a simplified layout to avoid distractions for
users (61%),
• sign-up forms are one-page-forms (93%),
• sign up forms attract visitors by explaining the benefits of
registration (41%),
• titles of the input fields are highlighted bold (62%)
• no trend in the label alignment can be identified,
• designers tend to use few mandatory fields,
• designers tend to use few optional fields,
• vertically arranged fields are preferred to horizontally arranged
fields (86%).
• sign-up forms don't have any hover, active or focus-effects (84%),
• hints and help are either static (57%) or dynamic (33%) and appear
below the input field (57%) or on the right side of the field (26%),
• static validation is as popular as dynamic validation — no trend
toward Ajax;
• e-mail confirmation is not used (82%),
• password confirmation is used (72%),
• captcha can be used or not used (48% vs. 52%),
• cancel button is not used (92%),
• the submit-button is left-aligned (56%) or centered (26%),
• thank-you message motivates users to proceed with exploring the
services of the site (45%).

Thanks for sending the links to these articles, Greg.

Some interesting observations here. I would, however, highlight that
their findings are simply WHAT these 100 sites do, not necessarily WHY
they do them nor whether they are better or worse necessarily. I'd
recommend referring to Luke Wroblewski's fabulous book on forms design
to determine best methods for users. See
http://www.lukew.com/ff/index.asp (interestingly, his current post is
on this very set of articles!).

Nicely done.

joe

and they m--- In richmondux@yahoogroups.com, "Greg K." <gregoriok@...>
wrote:
>
> Smashingmagazine.com just did a good study/article on design patterns
> of sign-up forms and part 2 just came out today...
>
> Part 1:
>
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-form\
s/
>
> Part 2:
>
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/08/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-form\
s-part-2/
>

Contact Julee Bellome (julee.bellomo@...) to apply.

The position is in Bethesda, MD

=============

As a member of the professional staff, contributes general knowledge
and skill in a discipline area (e.g. Accounting, Finance, Human
Resources, Information Resources, Operations Planning & Support, Sales
& Marketing) to support team and/or department objectives.  Generally
works under close supervision or within well-established guidelines to
complete routine tasks.

Specific Job Summary
Responsible for art direction and interactive design for Marriott US
and international websites based on business and marketing strategy,
customer feedback, usability testing and industry research.


CLS Generic Expected Contributions

• Performs the following types of basic tasks:  analysis, auditing,
budgeting, forecasting, programming, research, report generation, and
software integration.

• Responds to, solves and makes decisions on standard/routine business
requests with limited risk.

• Responsible for own work and contributing to team, department and/or
business results. May direct work of non-management staff.

• Assists more senior associates in achieving business results by:

− utilizing technical knowledge and skills to enhance business processes.
− establishing priorities for self and, where appropriate, others.
− allocating own time effectively to meet goals in a manner that does
not disadvantage other associates or groups.
− contributing to department/unit budget as appropriate (i.e., input,
following guidelines, etc).

• Demonstrates an awareness of personal strengths and areas for
improvement and acts independently to improve and increase skills and
knowledge.

• Performs other duties as appropriate.

Specific Expected Contributions (including duties and responsibilities)

• Responsible for the design and execution of web based projects
ranging from reservations functionality interface, marketing programs,
and new products for both US and international Marriott websites.
• Art direct, concept, strategize and design web projects in
coordination with the user researchers,  information architects,
content strategists, and content managers.
• Participate and work closely with user researches in the research
planning, usability tests, interviews and findings.
• Develop paper or interactive prototypes to support the research
and/or business vision.
• Participate and work closely with information architects in the
development of site flows, wireframes and competitive analysis.
• Participate and work closely with content strategists in the
development of creative briefs and content on projects.
• Participate and lead creative brainstorming sessions.
• Understand the marketing and business objectives, the positioning of
the product and it's major benefits to the user.
• Research the competitive landscape and audience online and off-line.
• Work closely with User experience Lead to gather all relevant
marketing materials
• Understand and maintain the Marriott.com style guide and templates
library, and develop projects that meet their technical criteria.
• Prepare presentations of concept and design development to clients
along with project manager and user experience lead
• Advise operations manager on time and resources needed for estimates
and schedules on all projects.
• Identify and secure appropriate resources based on project
parameters and deliverables.
• Coordinate and supervise photo selection.
• Negotiate and purchase outside vendor products and services,
including stock and contract photography, illustration, design, copy
writing
• Advise Manager, Graphic Design and Director, user experience on
department strategy, procedures, processes.
• Stay abreast of and share learning with the team about latest design
trends, technical advancements and software relative to web page design


CLS Generic Candidate Profile

Successful candidates should possess knowledge and experience and
demonstrate strong leadership and relationship skills as follows:

Usually a professional position with general knowledge in a discipline
(i.e., Accounting, Human Resources, Information Resources).  College
degree and/or related experience typically required.


Specific Candidate Profile (the education, experience, skills and
attributes that are important for this position)

Skills, Abilities, Attributes and Experience:
• Ability to solve problems and think creatively
• Ability to manage complex projects and budgets
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to work on a fast-pace, deadline driven environment
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Effective budget management skills

Creative/Technical Skills
• Strong background in design, art direction, marketing and
advertising for the Web
• Ability to effectively translate marketing messages designed for
other mediums to the Internet
• Experienced in information architecture and navigation design
• Knowledge of design software for Macintosh, including Photoshop,
Illustrator and ImageReady
• Knowledge of current rich media technologies such as Flash
• Understanding of how to design for Content Management systems
• Thorough understanding of computer systems and technologies as
applied to web design and development
• Excellent visual communication skills
• Excellent information management skills
• Accomplished information architect

Attributes
• Creative and conceptual thinker
• Flexible and accommodating to the needs of the team
• Excellent team player
• Ability to think independently and self manage

Education/Experience
• Bachelors degree required in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, MIS or
Multimedia Technology.
• Extensive studio, agency, corporate design or advertising experience
• Minimum of three years of web design experience
• Strong project management experience