Attending the UPA 2009 International Conference – Portland?

If you are attending the 2009 Usability Professionals Conference in Portland be sure to visit the UPA Networking Event on Wednesday, June 10 to meet up with other Triangle area Chapter members!   The networking event will also showcase UPA projects, SIGS, and other Chapters.   If you’d like to connect with other TriUPA members prior to the conference, comment here on our blog, or contact Kim Chang at kim.chang at bcbsnc.com.

Attention Writers!

The TriUPA community needs you!  

Do you have ideas for articles that you would like to see on the TriUPA website?  

Are you passionate about a particular user experience related subject?  

Do you have expertise or a success story that you would like to share?  

If you are interested in writing for our site, please contact Kimberly Chang at kim.chang at bcbsnc.com.

Summer 2009 Software Development Intern:

Rho Software Development has established an unpaid internship for Summer 2009 for a college student whose program area of specialty focuses on user interfaces and usability designs of software applications.  We want to add usability design to the front end of our software development lifecycle at the point we gather requirements and develop the functional specifications for our software applications.  We are interested in leveraging a college student who had been studying these techniques in their degree program.  We would like for the research and techniques that are trialed during this internship to be well documented included training materials so we can utilize the processes/tools demonstrated once the internship is complete.  It is important at the end of the internship that the student can describe how their work has impacted designs, requirements documentation, and programmer behaviors.

Background skills preferred:

• Psychology training
• Experience with web design and page layout
• Familiar with the terms “human factors”  and “heuristics”
• Experience setting up and/or running usability studies
• Currently enrolled in a relevant Bachelor’s degree program (Usability design, etc)

Qualified applicants should submit a resume with cover letter to Careers@rhoworld.com.  No phone calls, please.

Rho, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.