Announcing UX Magazine's New Jobs Board

Over the past few years, we’ve heard from a lot of business and hiring managers that they find it hard to find qualified UX professionals and UX-minded businesspeople to fill vacant jobs in their organizations. We’ve also heard from UX pros who say that, in a world where anyone can claim to be able to “do UX,” it’s hard to stand out from throngs of job seekers on high-volume sites such as Monster.com and Indeed.com.

We’re therefore pleased to announce that we’ve launched a new jobs board exclusively for the UX community. We believe that UX Magazine’s strong reputation in and focus on the UX community, coupled with the very high traffic volume our site receives, will mean our jobs board will be valuable to job seekers and employers alike.

You can find our new jobs board by going to uxmag.com/uxjobs, or by clicking “UX Jobs” in the nav bar from anywhere on UX Magazine's website. There are some exciting opportunities already posted. You can also subscribe to alerts of new job postings.

January 17, 2012
UX Magazine Staff
Introducing the Reviews Section in UX Magazine

We’re pleased to announce that we are adding a Reviews section to UX Magazine. The goal of this section will be to look at existing software products, mobile apps, websites, and other solutions as instructive examples in understanding UX concepts and guiding the design of other products. The purpose of the reviews isn’t to pass judgment on the work of others, but rather to use the solutions they’ve designed in response to the challenges they faced as an opportunity to learn.

While some of our reviews will examine entire products, others will have a much narrower focus. We may review individual application screens, specific interaction design solutions, novel UI components, interesting types of data visualization, or other such focused solutions and questions. We’ll also examine redesigns and changes to existing products and sites.

Do you have any suggestions for products or solutions you’d like us to review? Please email your ideas to reviews@uxmag.com.

We’d like to welcome and thank the new members of the UX Magazine review team:

November 22, 2011
Jonathan Anderson
Apology for RSS issues and duplicates

You may have noticed that we've recently migrated to a new version of our site. Our goal in the redesign has been to make the site easier to read and navigate, and to give you easier access to the wealth of articles in our archive.

During the changeover to our new site, several things got mangled in our RSS feed. The link tag, which makes it easy to click through to the article on our site, got stripped. And we neglected to include a guid (globally unique ID) tag that helps RSS readers determine whether an article is new or not. The result has been that for the past few days our RSS feed has been hard to use, and you may have seen the most recent ten articles duplicated in your RSS client, or marked as new when you'd already read them or flagged them as read.

October 06, 2011
Jonathan Anderson
UX Magazine at the IA Summit in Denver

UX Magazine is at the 2011 IA Summit today through April 3rd to conduct interviews with conference presenters and attendees.

If you're at the conference, or even in the downtown Denver area, stop by our interview set to say hi and, if you want, give your opinion on one of these questions on camera:

March 31, 2011
Jonathan Anderson
Profiling business UX leaders: A new series on UX Magazine

For companies to succeed at creating great user experiences in their products, the entire company must be focused on UX to some degree. It’s not sufficient to just hire a CXO or create an isolated UX team, nor can marketing or IT departments take up the UX mantle on their own. UX must be a company-wide competency, and decision-making must be suffused with attention to user or customer needs.

Building a UX orientation and competency can be very difficult for large companies. Complicated politics, segregated departments, entrenched industry practices, fragile legacy products, poor agency partners, and basic lack of information can make it quite challenging to steer the enormous ship toward better UX.

April 16, 2010
Jonathan Anderson
UX Magazine at SXSW - Interactive 2010

We will be at the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin March 12 -16

We will be posting updates on our SXSW activities at: 

http://uxmag.com/sxsw2010

UX Magazine's Managing Editor, Jonathan Anderson, and Contributing Editor, Whitney Hess, will be on the ground looking for interesting UX stories and professionals.

We're looking for suggestions of who we should talk to, what companies we should meet with, and what stories we should cover. There's also an overwhelming number of exciting parties, so we're trying to decide which ones to check out. If you have any suggestions for us, or if you're at SXSW and see something interesting we should capture on tape or video, please send us an email:

sxsw@uxmag.com

For occasional updates from UX Magazine, make sure you're following our Twitter feed @uxmag.

March 08, 2010
Jonathan Anderson
Influencing Business Strategy Through Design

Due in part to Luke Wroblewski's work, the great divide between the business side and the design side of organizations is shrinking. What started out as an internal training course for a group of Yahoo! designers has since touched hundreds of designers seeking to break free of design pigeonholes, striving to make a greater impact on business strategies within organizations and in agencies.

Wroblewski, head of a team of interaction designers, visual designers and engineers who collaborate on new products and make experiences consistent across Yahoo! properties, believes designers have valuable—but largely untapped—abilities that can be put to good use in the boardroom as well as in the studio. He believes that designers just need to learn how to apply their unique problem-solving and visual communication skills to better participate at a strategic level.

December 08, 2009
Luke Wroblewski, UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine running on Drupal

What a week! We have a bunch of new and exciting stuff to announce this week, but we'll start off the day by announcing our transition to Drupal. UX Magazine is now running on Drupal 6. The design has been left intact, although most of our frequent visitors will notice a dramatic upgrade regarding the sites' speed. We've also moved all out stuff over to the Rackspace cloud. We might still have some unresolved issues in the backend, and we might have to double up on some feeds but please bare bear with us, this is all part of the transition...

We have lot's of exciting announcements coming this week. Stay tuned by following us on twitter or by subscribing to one of our feeds

June 29, 2009
Constantinos Demetriadis
Twittering away while moving to Drupal
Just a quick note to remind you that the UX Magazine crew will be keeping the Twitter feed @uxmag well up-to-date while we wrap up porting the whole site to Drupal 6 (we’re about 90% done). We won’t be posting much until the move is completed. It’s running on our dev environment and we hope to start increasing our news output dramatically as soon as we re-launch. We’ll also be ‘leaking’ some information on the new design which should come a couple of months after that. You can also follow the editors directly for extra tidbits: @alexoid, @cdemetriadis & @howardmann.
March 13, 2009
Alex Schleifer
UX Magazine redesign?

I’ll be posting some info & sneak peeks of the UX Magazine redesign to Twitter. Here are a couple you may have missed.

December 04, 2008
Alex Schleifer