‘True 3D’ Display Using Laser Plasma Technology
Pretty amazing stuff, made by the Japanese
Augmented Mirror of the Future Reflects You and Your World
Reveal Project - Personal Data Mirror from NYT R&D on Vimeo.
Microsoft: The Future of Xbox Kinect
For those who dont know what “Experience Director” means
Lately, I have received questions about my title, my job at the company, tired of those, so I will just paste here a job description from another company:
Experience Directors play a critical role at HUGE (the company name). They are the nerve center of our design process and take a hefty share of responsibility for the success of large-scale projects. Experience Directors oversee interdisciplinary teams through research, strategy development, concepting, product definition, and design. They may own multiple projects at the same time or oversee and drive a single multi-track project.
A successful Experience Director at HUGE is an innovative designer, a decisive product owner, a confident manager, a helpful mentor, a team player, and a skilled client partner all rolled into one. In addition to project work, Experience Directors help to shape the User Experience department, manage and mentor other Interaction Designers, and play a major role in business development.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Project Managers and Engagement Directors to create project scopes, schedules, and road maps
- Plan for, delegate, oversee, and polish all UX project deliverables (such as strategic vision briefs, concepts, wireframes, site maps, content inventories, etc.)
- Create and present aforementioned deliverables when necessary
- Partner with other disciplines to ensure a stellar final product
- Champion principles of usability and user-centered design and know when it’s ok to violate those principles
- Work with research team to define correct research processes, and participate in user testing or fieldwork as needed
- Partner with Senior Clients to keep project momentum moving forward and to maintain a positive working relationship
- Collaborate with HUGE teammates and clients to ensure that the integrity of the experience is maintained through launch
- Contribute to our process and shared knowledge, and help to evolve the HUGE way of working over time.
- Play a major role as a representative for user experience in pitch work and business development
Requirements/Qualifications:
- 10+ years experience creating interfaces, large scale websites, or applications
- Desire to produce the best experiences in the industry hands-down
- Full understanding of how to apply the methodologies of interaction design and research to website and product development
- Successful track record leading interdisciplinary teams in creating killer products
- Tendency to lose sleep over how to remove the need for annoying “Cancel” buttons
- Experience managing, growing, and mentoring junior colleagues
- Proven client management skills
- Capacity to think holistically about a client’s business
- Engaging presentation style
- Solid writing and visual communication skills
- Familiarity with usability heuristics and relevant HCI literature
- Knowledge of InDesign or other tools for generating wireframes and behavior specifications
- Ability to play nicely with other intelligent and talented types
- The curiosity of a scientist and the passion of an artist
- Ability to inspire passion, dedication, and killer work from others
- Open to feedback and knows how and when to defend design choices
- Takes risks in design that lead to a perfect balance of innovation and usability
- Proactive, hands-on person who loves a challenge
- We are open to relocating candidates from outside of the Los Angeles area
Social Network - The Open Platform Conference(27/8/2011)
An interesting conference that was held by Zing(Vinagame) and Go.vn (VTC Online).
Overall, nothing new, some presenters are the do-people but seems like never get on stage before, some others are the talk-people but don’t have case studies to show. Anyway, it’s good to know more about the local social networks, opportunities to work with them.
For those who was not there, you can download the presentation from this link:
http://open.me.zing.vn/content/t%C3%A0i-li%E1%BB%87u
