user experience

Is 38 Too Old to Start a Career as a UX Designer?

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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, … Read more

Better Experience is the Payoff in Education

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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 … Read more

West 104th Street Block Association Moves Ahead with Student Design

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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 The new web design will update the association’s site from the outdated world of frames and IE4 era optimization to a sleek, modern WordPress interface.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 … Read more

Stump and Moo

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…and for my first piece of post-MLIS magic, I started a project cataloging cows. Literally. It’s a small cattle ranch management app and won’t be public. Mostly coding and connecting to no-SQL database MongoDB, which is based in JSON and has interesting linked data possibilities. I have also started interning at Architecture_MPS, an online architecture … Read more

Fall Projects: User Research

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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 … Read more

IA Institute 2010 Salary and Benefits Survey

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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.

The 2009 IA Institute Salary and Benefits Survey Opens

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The 2009 IA Institute Salary and Benefits Survey is now open at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=rnk5PuDVMuIRC1QwwS9PtA_3d_3d The survey takes only a minute or two to complete, so we hope you’ll stop by and contribute. We have made slight edits from last year including a much simpler matrix of responses for IA related tasks, a more normalized breakdown of … Read more