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UX Jobs Salary Guide Infographic

Lab Super — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:32:25 +0000

Just to provide further evidence that we appreciate infographics (especially about filthy lucre and its availability to workers in our field), here’s a great one presenting a salary guide for UX jobs. It’s hard to see how things could possibly be much rosier: Salary Guide for UX Jobs

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The History of Typography

Lab Super — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:07 +0000

From Gutenberg to Comic Sans in five minutes? Ben Barrett-Forrest presents an animated history: The History of Typography

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What Should You Learn in University in 2013?

bcalvert — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:56:20 +0000

Meet Kristen Dillon, an incoming student who has been impacted by the proposed suspension of intake of first year students into the Interactive Design program at Capilano University. We’re as puzzled as Kristen about the rationale for the programs selected for suspension. Interactive Design is an efficient 2-year diploma program, with 48 students operating in one classroom, delivering [...]

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Help us Digital Obi-Wan Kenobi’s – You May Be Our Only Hope!

bcalvert — Sun, 05 May 2013 06:11:33 +0000

Happy Star Wars Day! We’re hoping the force is also with us as we enter a pivotal 10-day stretch in the 23-year history of our Interactive Design program at Capilano University. Interactive Design is a 2-year diploma program that creates a hybrid front-end web-developer / user experience designer, with digital industry business and community management skills. Our [...]

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Carter Hales Design Lab Internship #1 – Alan Chao

achao13 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:26:09 +0000

You know how sometimes when you’re starting your new job and you take your first few steps in to the building feeling like you’re a triangle trying to fit in with a bunch of squares? My first few steps in Carter Hales Design Lab as an intern felt nothing like that. I was immediately greeted [...]

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6folds Internship #1 – Poyan Behboudi

pbehboudi13 — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:15:18 +0000

6folds is a web design and marketing firm located in Richmond. They are a tremendously knowledgeable group of marketers and web designers putting every ounce of their expertise into any project that comes their way. With a small group of employees and a humble office, they seem to take on bigger than life projects on [...]

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CSS Box Model Demo from IDL

admin — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:03:11 +0000

Hey Interactive Designers: Do you want to get a better understanding of the CSS box model? The CSS box model allows you to place a border around HTML elements and space elements in relation to other elements, with the box consisting of: margins, borders, padding, and the actual content. The Interactive Design program at Capilano University has [...]

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Engine Digital UX Internship #1 – Will Balladares

wballadares13 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:15:32 +0000

I started working at Engine Digital as a user experience intern about 3 and half weeks ago, as part of the Interactive Design program internship period, and the experience couldn’t have been more positive. Engine is a transformation digital agency with big clients like MTV, Western Union and BC Hydro, with a focus on user [...]

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Playerize Internship #1 – Jeffry Huyghebaert

jhuyghebaert13 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:24:28 +0000

Playerize is a rapidly growing company that specializes in monetization and high quality user acquisition for the social and mobile gaming industry. When I first arrived at the office on my first day, I introduced myself to everyone, got situated at my desk, and scrambled around trying to figure out a way to plug my laptop [...]

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Rethink Internship #1 – Joel Tougas

jtougas13 — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:15:03 +0000

The first two weeks of my internship with Rethink Vancouver have been great! Rethink specializes in big ideas for advertising, design and online, and handles strategy, creative and production for clients on a retainer or project basis, locally, regionally and nationally through their offices in Vancouver and Toronto. I am so happy to work on [...]

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