Arizona World Usability Day 2012 Celebration, Thursday, November 8

Arizona World Usability Day 2012 Celebration, Sponsored by PayPal!

The 2012 Arizona World Usability Day (WUD) event will be held on Thursday, November 8, 6-9 p.m. in Scottsdale. This year’s WUD topic is Usability of Financial Systems.

For the second year, our even has been selected as a WUD Partner Event. This distinction is only awarded to 5 events internationally, with no more than 2 events per country.
    
Our keynote speaker will be Rick Tilghman, Senior Director of Global Design at Paypal. Rick is a visionary UX leader, designer, and evangelist with over 15 years delivering revolutionary digital products across dozens of clients and industries. He leads PayPal's IXD practice and plays a central role in the delivery of the unified PayPal experience and the transformation of PayPal's design practice.

Our feature speaker is Kath Straub, Principal and Founder of of Usability.org. With over a decade of experience in the field, Kath has helped numerous fortune 500 companies, government agencies and not for profit organizations establish and nurture usability practices. She is known for her ability to draw from established and emerging multi-disciplinary behavior research to shape new UX methods and to drive innovative, intuitive and efficient designs. Her work integrates motivation, game theory and plain language, with the goal of transforming user experiences to ongoing dialogues that drive sustained behavioral change.

Networking, vendor booths, giveaways and a raffle of $1,000 worth of merchandise will be featured. Food will be served. The event is sponsored and hosted by PayPal.

For up-to-date information and to register for the event, please visit www.PHXWUD.com. The WUD official site is www.worldusabilityday.org.

Social Media Information

World Usability Day website: 
www.worldusabilityday.org

PHX WUD website: 
www.PHXWUD.com

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PHXWUD

LinkedIn:
http://linkd.in/QzAICf

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/PHXWUD
 
Google+:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cil0u2ke6rjthut9ihkih8epegk

Senior UX Designer to design large, high profile web sites and mobile apps - Scottsdale-based client

WunderLand is looking for a Senior UX Designer to help design large, high profile web sites and mobile apps for our Scottsdale, AZ based client.

This is a full time position. Any/all potential candidates will be required to work on-site at the Scottsdale location. We are unable to accept off-site contractors for this role.  This is a fantastic opportunity to work with big name clients in the technology, start-up  & entertainment industries, as well as supporting local clientele.
 
Senior UX Designer Qualifications:

• 6+ years web and interactive design experience
• Web Standards Only. Flash designers/developers need not apply.
• Expert Photoshop
• Experience defining and directing design strategy
• Can accurately scope design and development for large projects
• Solid foundation in UX principles
• Wire framing maestro
• Enterprise site experience
• Loves studying and resolving software usability issues
• Brand experience a plus
• Deep understanding of semantic HTML
• Familiar working with PHP or ASP.net dev teams a plus

If interested, please visit our website @ www.wunderlandgroup.com and apply to “Senior UX Designer.”  Your resume will be read by and responded to by a real person and will not go into a resume black hole.  Thank you for taking the time to apply with WunderLand !

WunderLand Group is a talent agency located in San Francisco.

http://jobs.wunderlandgroup.com/index.php?m=portal&a=details&jobOrderID=888895

Next AZ UPA Chapter Meeting - March 2012

Thanks to everyone for attending the January AZ UPA meeting at PayPal Scottsdale!

Our next meeting will be in March. Keep an eye out for a meeting invite in the next few weeks!

If you have ideas for presentation or discussion topics, please post them here or send them to theo [at] theomandel [dot] com.

See you next month!!

Job Posting: User Interface Designer at PayPal Scottsdale

Jonathan Mann, PayPal User Experience Manager, is looking for a User Interface Designer for the Scottsdale PayPal office.


This is a contract position with the possibility of converting to full-time. The pay is great and the work is exciting. Contact Jonathan Mann at jmann [at] paypal [dot] com if you're interested.

REMINDER: Arizona UPA Meeting – 6 PM Thursday, January 19, 2012

Arizona UPA Meeting – 6 PM, Thursday, January 19, 2012

Join us for the next Arizona Usability Professionals Association (AZUPA)
Chapter meeting on Thursday, January 19, 2012 from 6-8 p.m.

Networking, UX Design Challenges and Hot Topics

There is no charge for this event. Come join the fun!

Meeting Time and Location
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.
PayPal Scottsdale
9999 N. 90th Street (Across from Home Depot)
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Phoenix World Usability Day Celebration 2011 - Video

"To the heart of design" is a phrase that best describes the largest and most successful World Usability Day (WUD) event produced in Phoenix, Arizona, since its first event in 2007.

PayPal hosted and sponsored the event, kicked off with a multimedia presentation of examples from its extensive interaction design team members, numbering 250 strong, worldwide. From personas with a humorous "South Park" feel to in-home studies of individuals such as a deeply committed yet overwhelmed soccer mom, to before-and-after designs that resulted in capturing millions in revenue, the presentations illustrated best practices in user-centered design and methods today. Theo Mandel, Ph.D., Founder of Interface Design and Development and Vice President of the Arizona UPA Chapter, organized the event.

Taking best practices into action, Laura Faulkner, PhD, gave an inspiring keynote address that moved to the "heart of the designer." Expressing the global WUD theme, Dr. Faulkner sparked the audience to see their own work in new ways, and achieve "Design for Social Change" by their daily interactions with the many real humans required to create and deliver amazing designs. To this end, she brought diverse experience from her work as long-time UPA-International conferences co-chair, a research scientist with The University of Texas at Austin, a consultant/strategist with FalconDay Consulting, and even her experience as a certified yoga teacher.

The event, at PayPal's new facility in Chandler, was selected as one of only 5 worldwide WUD Global Partner Events. The 100 attendees were each given a PayPal tote filled with merchandise from event sponsors. Software valued at over $2,500, from Axure and TechSmith, along with other prizes were awarded in a raffle at the end of the event. The PayPal team inspired job seekers with discussion of how it utilizes design professionals, lit up creative thoughts with peeks into exciting current and future projects.

Arizona UPA Meeting – Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6 PM

Arizona UPA Meeting – 6 PM, Thursday, January 19, 2012

RSVP to arizonaupa@gmail.com

Join us for the next Arizona Usability Professionals Association (AZUPA)
Chapter meeting on Thursday, January 19, 2012 from 6-8 p.m.

Networking, UX Design Challenges and Hot Topics

We had an amazing turnout for our World Usability Day event in November – 100 attendees! We would like to build on this momentum with the first meeting of the New Year of the Arizona Chapter of the UPA!

Join us for networking and discussion on UX design challenges and/or hot topics. Please submit design challenges or hot topics you would like to discuss at the meeting as a comment on this AZ UPA blog announcement (arizonaupa.blogspot.com) and we’ll choose discussion topics at the meeting.

Also, we’ll discuss how often you’d like to meet and what topics and format you’d like to see for the meetings.

Beverages will be served!

Agenda
- Networking
- UX hot topics discussion
- UX design challenges discussion
- 2012 meeting schedule and topics

Meeting Time and Location
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.
PayPal Scottsdale
9999 N. 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85258