XHTML/CSS - Get a job

July 27, 2007 at 2:22 pm · Filed under Programming, RIA, Information Architecture, Visual Design, User Interface, User Experience

Terralever is currently hiring for several positions at our Tempe, Arizona office.  Here’s the job posting that was added to our career’s section today:

Terralever is on the lookout for a passionate, creative, standards compliant front end architect. We’re not going to bore you with the regular “must know CSS, XHTML, yada, yada”.The right candidate yearns for new learning experiences and has an exquisite passion and drive to be on the bleeding edge of technological revolutions. This candidate will have validation in life through amazing work and the W3C, a pixel-perfect attention to detail, an insatiable desire to be creative, and an ownership to their work that it’s the best. And a rockin’ iPod playlist doesn’t hurt.Terralever is located on Mill Avenue in the heart of downtown Tempe, offering our employees a hip, creative atmosphere. We have a team centric work environment which allows our staff to interact with all aspects of a project. We have amazing award-winning work for national brands, but we pride ourselves more for the extraordinary group of people that make it possible.If this sounds like you and a company you’d like to work for e-mail jobs@terralever.com with your resume and some sweet samples. 

The original posting is located on the careers section on the Terralever web site along with additional job postings for the roles of Senior Interactive Designer, Flash Production Artist, Senior Interactive (Flash) Developer, Interactive Project Manager, and .NET Web Applications Developer.We’re also always looking for best-of-breed candidates in search marketing (SEO and PPC) and viral marketing.

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CNN cleans up its act

July 1, 2007 at 3:46 am · Filed under Information Architecture, Visual Design, User Interface, User Experience

I popped over to CNN.com tonight to catch up on the news a bit, and was refreshingly surprised to see that they’d launched the beta version they’ve been working on. It’s more than just paint on the old bones—they’ve done a major amount of work in rethinking how they present stories and allow the user to move through the large amounts of content they publish.

Visually, the simplified color scheme and reduced amount of ornamentation is appreciated; likely by advertisers more than anyone. Now they have the only thing in the streamlined page layouts that stick out like a sore thumb!

On the user experience end of the equation there’s too much to mention. Thankfully, CNN sums up the new features well; check out the tour of the relaunched site’s new features to get a quick overview of what’s new.

Already forgot what CNN used to look like? Here’s Gigablast’s cached version of the CNN.com dated June 8th.

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On the Bookshelf: IA / UI / UX / Visual Design

April 15, 2007 at 5:26 pm · Filed under Information Architecture, Visual Design, User Interface, User Experience

A few books on Information Architecture, User Interface Design, User Experience and Visual Design that I’m happy to have space for on my bookshelf:

• About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
• The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)
• The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word
• The Design of Everyday Things

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On the Web: GUIdebook

March 30, 2007 at 12:47 pm · Filed under Information Architecture, On the Web, Visual Design, Applications, User Interface, User Experience

If you’re into user interface or user experience design, you’ll probably be a fan of GUIdebook. The site features screen captures of just about any operating system you can think of, timelines for releases by OS, icons, sounds (unfortunately this section covers only a few versions of Microsoft Windows and OS/2), splash screens for applications and more.

A few favorite areas on the site:

1. The visual display of how various operating systems visually executed the same interfaces (right side of page, under ‘components’).
2. Common icons as represented by different operating systems.
3. The tutorials that many operating systems provided.

Some of the GUIs represented on the site: Amiga OS, Apple II, GEOS/GeoWorks (which ran on the Commodore 64 and 128 as well as the Apple II), Lisa Office System, OS X, Windows, and Xerox Star/ViewPoint/Global View.

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