Merge Records looking for Content Management Internship (1-2 days a week)

Posted Apr 27, 2009   |   Comments disabled   |   by thomas

Content Management Internship (1-2 days a week)

Merge Records, founded in 1989, is an independent music label based in downtown Durham. The label releases approximately 30 albums (in LP, CD, and digital formats) each year, representing artists from the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

We are looking for a Type A personality to update, edit and organize much of our digital content including band information, video assets, and catalog items. This individual must be self-motivated and have an eye for detail. This is an unpaid internship (with free music and admission to various concerts) and reports to the IT manager. This is an opportunity to participate in the day-to-day operation of an active e-commerce website.

Responsibilities include:

* coordinating with publicity team to update all artist pages on mergerecords.com (e.g. making the language current, removing outdated information, incorporating news.)
* proofreading descriptions of all online catalog items
* converting and uploading old video formats to Merge Record’s youtube collection.

Minimum Requirements:

* individual must show experience using computer software other than MS Office applications
* candidates must have a B.A. / B.S. or be currently enrolled toward the pursuit of a B.A. / B.S.

Please send you resume to Thomas Nickles thomas@mergerecords.com. Emails without attached resumes will not be considered.

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TriUPA workshop—Sketching for Interaction Design—June 24th, 2009

Posted Apr 21, 2009   |   0 Comments   |   by Abe Crystal

What: Sketching for Interaction Design

When: A full-day workshop: 9am - 5pm | Wednesday 6/24/09

Where: Council for Entrepreneurial Development in RTP

How: Capacity is limited—Register online now to reserve your spot!

Intended Audience

The course is geared towards people who are practicing interaction
design and other user experience professionals, but can be beneficial
for anyone who is trying to apply core design thinking methods into
their personal and business practices. No previous experience with
drawing or sketching is required.

About the Workshop

Are you looking for new ways to bring design thinking and design
practice into your daily practice as a user experience professional?
Do you want to learn how great designers of all types get to that
“new” idea without having to wait for divine inspiration? Do you think
that “sketching” is only a tool left to those who have been formally
trained to draw?

“Sketching for Interaction Design” is a 1-day seminar and workshop
created to teach people what sketching really is all about, why it is
powerful and how you can bring it into your daily practice as a User
Experience Professional. In this class you’ll learn how the great
organizations of design and innovation use sketching in their daily
practice. You will also gain practice in sketching and see why it is a
distinctive tool from prototyping geared more towards idea generation
than for testing and communication. It is both a tool for personal
use, and a tool for group collaboration.

The course will contain these units:

Defining sketching as something similar to but different from prototyping
Placing sketching in the context of a larger design process
General practice using drawing as a communication tool
Class project working in teams
Communicating concepts in interaction design
Review period of team work
Take away lessons, and next steps for people wanting to apply
sketching to their practice
The course is geared towards people who are practicing interaction
design and other user experience professionals, but can be beneficial
for anyone who is trying to apply core design thinking methods into
their personal and business practices. No previous experience with
drawing or sketching is required.

About the Speaker

David Malouf is currently a Professor of Interaction Design in the Industrial Design Department of the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). Before taking this position, David was a Sr. Interaction Design for Motorola Enterprise Mobility where he designed software, webware, and hardware interactions and interfaces. Motorola was the last in a 15-year journey of practicing interaction design, information architecture, UI design, project management and other roles and positions working almost exclusively with thin client technologies.

David is also one of the primary founders and the first Vice President of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). David’s passion for evangelizing and teaching interaction design, came to a climax in 2008 when he co-chaired the first Interactions conference, Interaction 08 | Savannah.

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JSMag April 2009 available

Posted Apr 16, 2009   |   0 Comments   |   by Michael Kimsal

The April 2009 issue of JSMag is now available at JSMag.com.  This issue features the ‘Object Literal’ pattern, Profiling JavaScript with either Firebug or YUI’s Profiler, the JazzRecord JavaScript ORM library, and more.  RefreshTheTriangle members can redeem coupon code jsrf10 for 10% any purchase.

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