Archive for the 'UIE' topic
By Jared Spool March 21st, 2013
Director of Marketing at User Interface Engineering Fast Forward One Year: We want to thank you for crafting and executing a marketing strategy for User Interface Engineering. Here’s what happened under your leadership: You increased our revenues beyond our wildest dreams because of your ingenious unified approach that clearly tied all of our products and [...]
By Sean Carmichael October 23rd, 2012
A lot of people have been asking us for the full list of songs that we play before our virtual seminars. Here is the current list of our Virtual Seminar Lobby music (You might notice we here at UIE are particularly fond of covers.): Time Is Running Out – by The Section Quartet Still Alive [...]
By Adam Churchill October 15th, 2012
Fast Forward One Year… We’d like to thank you for your fantastic job of building and maintaining the business-critical server functionality that keeps User Interface Engineering running. Your hard work has driven our revenue to new levels, increased our productivity, and helped us enter new markets that we only dreamed of before you arrived. We’re [...]
By Adam Churchill August 22nd, 2012
We’re looking for an amazing Front End Web Developer Intern for a paid, 4-month internship. Fast Forward Four Months… We’d like to thank you for doing a fantastic job as our 2012 Fall Front End Web Developer Intern. You’ve driven the launch of a new subscription program for our virtual seminars. You worked your magical [...]
By Jared Spool March 15th, 2012
We’re seeing that the move to designing for mobile can be a real challenge for many UX Professionals. Once they get past the initial thinking that it’s just another screen size, they are hit with all the different dimensions of what it takes to create a great mobile experience. That can seem overwhelming at first. [...]
By Jared Spool December 29th, 2011
We’re looking for an amazing Business Intern for a paid, 4-month internship. Fast Forward Four Months… We’d like to thank you for doing a fantastic job as our 2012 Winter Business Intern. You started with a thorough analysis of the purchasing patterns in our UIE Virtual Seminar series. This led to some amazing insights on [...]
By Jared Spool December 28th, 2011
We’re looking for an amazing Web Developer Intern for a paid, 4-month internship. Fast Forward Four Months… We’d like to thank you for doing a fantastic job as our 2012 Winter Web Developer Intern. You’ve driven the launch of a new web site for our latest conference. You worked your magical HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript/JQuery [...]
By Jared Spool August 2nd, 2011
Hang around me long enough and you’ll hear me say this: Outsourcing your user research work is like outsourcing your vacation. It gets the job done, but probably won’t have the effects you were seeking. I usually say this when someone is asking me to do their user research for them. This is something we [...]
By Jared Spool February 6th, 2011
User Interface Engineering is looking for a Master Copy Craftsman to join our North Andover, MA team. Are you that person? Fast Forward One Year… We’d like to thank you for your fantastic job helping us deliver User Interface Engineering’s products to our clients during the past year. Your hard work increased our sales and [...]
By Jared Spool January 19th, 2010
UIEtips 3/7/06: Interview-Based Tasks: Learning from Leonardo DiCaprio
Interview-based tasks are a radical usability testing technique, designed to counter problems that arise when assumptions are made about how users solve their own problems.