results from our survey of ui/ux needs

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UI/UX Survey Results 2009

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How long at ACME?

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Area of Expertise

OTHERBusiness Analysis/Product Development Front-End Engineering Graphic Design / Web Design

liaison between sales & dev PHP/Oracle SQL project management Usability

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Languages

OTHER:jQuery | Microformats | MySQL / Oracle SQL

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Primary Duties of UX Professional

OTHER:Search Marketing | SEO | Web Development Manager, Web Developer before | Director | SEM

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Our Backgrounds

OTHER:SEO | SEM | Web Design | Project Mgr | Client Mgr

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What kind of requirements?

COMMENTS: “All those requirements that get forgotten in development” | Design Requirements

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AJAX?

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Javascript Libraries

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How much time writing code?

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% doing UX Design?

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% Dynamic Code?

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% Javascript?

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% Bug Fixing?

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% Creating New Features

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% Creating New Products

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Knowledge of SEO Web Design?

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Information Architecture?

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Visual Design?

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Navigation Design?

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Interaction Design?

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Branding/Marketing Strategies?

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Page Speed Optimization?

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Divide work between front and backend developers?

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UI/UX Resources

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Software Industry Resources

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UI Development ToolsAptanajEditCodaPhotoshopFirebugColdfusion editorFirefoxWinmergenotepad++DreamweaverAmayaFireworksPuttyBaregrepfirefox development toolsCS4WebDev AddOn for FFSEO Quake for FF

YSlow

Firefox Error ConsolePrimoCoolIrisColorPickerCSS ValidatorHTML ValidatorZend StudioSmush.itPhotoshopDean Edwards' PackerMicroformats ValidatorWordpadCrimson EditorPSPad editor IETester OpenCMS

SenSEOScreenCalipersWordPressjQuerySQLDeveloper scriptaculous

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UX Development Tools• Balsamiq Mockups• excel for Wireframes/Mocks• MS Office• Adobe CS4• Notepad• Photoshop• Omnigraffle• Whiteboard• Powerpoint• Visio• Sun Open Office Suite• Fireshot

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Presentation Topics?

• CSS • Liquid Layouts • content-based design principles• SEO for Developers• Object Oriented CSS• Time management• Evidence-based project estimation• OOCSS probably pretty soon• The user experience from off site to and though our site• User experience from outside sites through your site• Search Engine Optimization• 508 Compliance

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Discussion Topics?• any CSS related topics• any cutting edge paradigm shifts in the UI

internet world• anything• User experience from outside sites

through your site• Search Engine Optimization• 508 Compliance • User side SEO

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Book or Article Discussions?

• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug • Jesse James Garrett's Elements of User

Experience• Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS • Coft, Lloyd, and Rubin Pro CSS Techniques• Deborah Mayhew "User Esperience Design: The

evolution of a multi-disciplinary approach“• Andy Hunt - Mind Maps and rewiring your brain.

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Topics of Interest• Breaking down barriers between groups to reach common goals / Coordination and

collaboration between segmented groups / Silo Problem• How to impress on the rest of DE that UI is a valid profession concept with a real world career

path • HTML5• CSS3• Mobile Web• SEO / SEO Page Design / SEO Information Architecture• jQuery• OOCSS• More example based UI/UX design discussion. Show an interface and pick it apart as a group. It

would be interesting to hear peoples input "where the rubber hits the road" with real examples. • POSH / Microformats / Semantic Markup / Web 3.0 (Semantic Web)• API Programming• Product Requirements under Agile • MVC frameworks for frontend developers• Standards-based development / Standards and principles of UX Design / Maintaining

Branding/Design Standards• How to get businesses to understand the need for usability, user experience design• Real implementation of PHP training and skillsets for those who skirt the edges of real php-

programming• XML / XSLT• RDFA

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Topics of Personal Interest• Anything involving CSS / CSS3• Graphic design layouts for 508 compliance that works with both the

user experience and for search engines • HTML5• Mobile Web• SEO • Multi-variant testing • The new business model• best-practices• cross-browser compatibility • Web 2.0• JQuery • XML& XSLT• Zend certification and some real company efforts that would make it

more realistic

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Preferred way to communicate?