Mark McKay is starting an Ottawa Chapter of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), a professional group for Interaction Designers. It actively focuses on interaction design issues for the practitioner, no matter his or her level of experience. About IxDA http://www.ixda.org/about.php The Ottawa chapter is open for anyone to join by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/ixda-ottawa?lnk=gcimh

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Job: Interaction Designer / Multi-Media Consultant – OTTAWA Brainhunter Ottawa is currently seeking an Interaction Designer / Multi-Media Consultant for one of our Government clients. The ideal candidate requires to have the following set of skills: Usability and Interaction Design of web-based application software. Developing and iterating prototypes such as storyboards, screenshots, web forms, PDF [...]

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The OpenUsability Season of Usability will be supporting 10 students to work on 10 open source projects during the June 1 – August 31 2009 season. The Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) projects. [...]

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This event may be of interest to the CapCHI community… Maven – How to automate Java building, testing and version management with open source tools SPEAKER: Erik Putrycz, Apption Software DATE: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 TIME: 6:30PM Networking; 7PM-9PM Presentation PLACE: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., 2nd floor, Ottawa (between Bank and Kent, above the Green [...]

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Job Title – User Interface / User Experience Consultant Company – Infonium Location – Ottawa, ON, Canada We would like someone with strong design skills to help us make our applications easier to use. Experience in administrative and/or financial processes would be really helpful. Strong expertise in the HTML, CSS and even Ajax domains is [...]

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