Sr. User/Design Researcher / Information Architect Specialist
User Experience Designer
Updates—What I Did
Relevant to my career path, as it relates to being a professionalsenior-level user/design experience researcher, information architect and design practitioner, user experience designer, interaction designer, product designer, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript programming, user-centered designer, project/product manager, usability tester, and director.
Updates—Specific To
User/design research, information architecture, user experience design, mobile user experience, navigation design, interaction design, user interface design, Internet design and technology, intranet information architecture, rapid prototyping, paper prototyping, Adobe Creative Suite, computer/Web programming, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript programming, Search Engine Optimization, Web usability, product design, project/product management, and usability testing.Updates
◼ Updates.pdfCode Tenderloin Program
◼ Code Ramp Program ( November, 2020 )◼ JavaScript programming
◼ Job Readiness Program ( October, 2020 )
Mixpanel
Improving Product Decision
Making with User Research
◼ Participated in workshop ( March, 2019 )◼ About leadership and research skills
General Assembly
World IA Day 2019: Design for Difference
◼ Participated in workshop ( February, 2019 )◼ About leadership and research skills
AdGroup
From Market Fit to Hyperscale:
Optimizing Products at Different Growth Stages
◼ Participated in workshop ( January, 2019 )◼ About leadership and research skills
Mixpanel
Elevate Your Product Leadership Skills
◼ Participated in workshop ( February, 2018 )◼ About leadership skills
Adobe
Designing for Behavior Change
◼ Participated in workshop ( January, 2018 )◼ User-centered design
◼ Design patterns
◼ Psychology and research
LinkedIn
Nailing Product Market Fit
◼ Participated in workshop ( November, 2017 )◼ About what UI means in projects and results
◼ Strategy and execution of product initiatives
Google Launchpad
Building Smart Search Products with Machine
Learning and Deep Learning
◼ Participated in workshop ( September, 2017 )◼ About what it takes to build machine learning
◼ How YELP is using deep learning to identify photo
An Evening with Eye Tracking:
Concepts and Applications
◼ Participated in workshop ( September, 2017 )◼ Tested out devices
Using Qualitative and Quantitative Data
to Inform Product Decisions
◼ Participated in workshop ( June, 2017 )◼ About making good product decisions
Google Workshop for Design Sprint Process
◼ Participated in workshop ( August, 2017 )◼ User research methods—IDEO/Stanford’s d.school
Harvard University, Harvard i-Lab
Reviewed online video; Increasing Your Creative Capacity( November, 2016 ).
Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But how exactly does one increase their ability to think and act creatively?
In this session, award winning educator and artist Art Sherwyn will walk through the creative process and illustrate methods for training the intellect how to gain passage into the world of creative thought; within this world will lie the tools for creative problem solving and invention with focus on using these techniques to drive innovation within your own venture.
Art will also share the unique alignment the arts have with the human side of entrepreneurship and connection to the stability and longevity of your venture and quality of life. This workshop will provide very practical information which is easily adaptable. It is designed to be highly participatory and hands-on.
◼ http://i-lab.harvard.edu
Stanford University
Reviewed online video; cutting edge research within the human-computer interaction (HCI) field ( June, 2016 ).Ongoing Professional Development
BayCHI was founded in 1989 by people who knew each other through SIGCHI and wanted to create a local technical community of HCI professionals. Don Patterson, co-founder and membership chair, describes BayCHI’s start:At CHI+GI 1987, Kate Ehrlich of the Greater Boston SIGCHI (the first local ACM SIGCHI Chapter) sparked Sue Koopman’s imagination with her stories about the great things happening at the local Boston SIGCHI. With all the computer-related activity in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sue figured we should be able to establish a vital local CHI community as Kate and others had done in Boston.◼ BayCHI
◼ BayCHI meetings and workshops
◼ PARC
◼ PARC events
◼ Hire Smart by Intuit and LinkedIn; workshops
Location
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)George E. Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA
BayCHI Meetings
Learning new things about user research, information architecture, user experience design, interaction design, mobile device design, interface design, game design, project/product management, computer/Web programming, and usability testing all the time; lectures and hands-on experience workshops.
CCSF Computer/Web Programming Courses (1 Semester)
◼ CS 111A, Intro. to Programming: Java ProgrammingIntroduction to computer programming and problem solving. No prior programming experience required. Course concepts include: problem solving techniques, algorithms, program design, control structures, methods, arrays and use of the Java programming language. C-ID COMP 112; UC/CSU.
Due to time constraints, I was not able to complete this course. However, I read the textbook at home, and I studied it diligently. I learned so much from just studying on my own, including the additional work with other Professors.
◼ Craig Persiko’s Links for Programmers
CCSF Computer/Web Programming Courses (1 Semester)
◼ CNIT 132, Intermediate HTML, HTML5 & CSS3Use of HTML [HTML5] to publish information on the World Wide Web, including the use of color, images, tables, and frames. Cascading Style Sheets [CSS3] are used to standardize the appearance of information within a page and across pages in a site. Introduction to scripting languages, Dynamic HTML, forms and CGI. Introduction to secure data transfer. Discussion of privacy, copyright, and accessibility issues. Hand code Web pages using HTML and XHTML and publish with FTP; CSU.
Textbooks and links:
◼ Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS3, 2/E
◼ Web Development & Design Foundations with HTML5, 7/E
◼ CNIT Computer Networking & Information Technology
Web Standards, HTML5, CSS3 and Web Accessibility
◼ http://www.w3.org◼ http://www.webstandards.org
◼ http://www.w3.org/WAI
◼ http://www.section508.gov
◼ http://www.w3.org/TR/html5
◼ http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/css#w3c_all
◼ http://webprofessionals.org
◼ http://www.csszengarden.com
Steven Heitman
Sr. User/Design Researcher
Information Architect
User Experience Designer
Interaction Designer
Product Designer
User-Centered Designer
Usability Tester
Technical Writer
Corporate Trainer
Project/Product Manager
Director
Sweet Code Points after BayCHI Meeting
Café Venetia is where we go for coffee, tea, chocolate sweets, cocktails, and Italian pastries (very yummy!), after BayCHI meetings in Palo Alto, California, near Stanford University. We like to further discuss the ideas and concepts we learned at BayCHI meetings, including:How it applies to user research, information architecture, interaction design, user experience design, design, game design, exhibit design, signage design, interface design, drafting and sketching, user flows, wire frame mockups, mapping and diagramming, computer/Web programming, HTML5, CSS3, mobile device design, human-computer interaction, user-centered design, textbooks from well-known authors, project/product management, and usability testing.
◼ Café Venetia
◼ Stanford University
AcademyX Computer/Web Programming Courses
HTML5 and CSS3
◼ HTML5 & CSS3 Certificate◼ HTML Fundamentals Certificate
◼ HTML Advanced Certificate
◼ CSS Fundamentals Certificate
◼ CSS Advanced Certificate
◼ JavaScript for Non-Programmers Certificate
◼ Ajax Fundamentals Certificate
◼ Dreamweaver Fundamentals Certificate
◼ Dreamweaver Intermediate Certificate
◼ AcademyX expert computer training
◼ Ruven Hannah, professor, technical training
Additional Computer/Web Programming Education
◼ Reading books on computer/Web programmingTextbooks:
◼ Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book
◼ Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Developing Mobile jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3
◼ Visual Quickstart Guide: Dreamweaver CS5
◼ Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development
◼ Dynamic Web Programming
◼ Visual Quickstart Guide: HTML5 & CSS3
◼ Visual Quickstart Guide: CSS, DHTML & Ajax
◼ Visual Quickstart Guide: HTML, XHTML & CSS
◼ Visual Quickstart Guide: Styling Web Pages with CSS
◼ Visual Quickstart Guide: JavaScript
◼ O’Reilly: CSS The Definitive Guide
◼ O’Reilly: HTML & XHTML The Definitive Guide
◼ O’Reilly: JavaScript The Definitive Guide
◼ O’Reilly: Learning PHP, MySQL, & JavaScript
◼ Microsoft: Visio 2010
◼ Using Microsoft Visio 2010
Softwares:
◼ Adobe Creative Suite (design premium) 5 & 5.5 (softwares) 2011
◼ OmniGraffle (software) 2011
◼ MS Office (software) 2011
◼ MS Visio (software) 2011
Experience Workshops Usability Week NN/g—Dr. Nielsen, Ph.D.
◼ Information Architecture 1: Structuring, Organizing Web-Based Info*◼ Information Architecture 2: Navigation Design**
◼ Usability in Practice: 3-Day Intensive Camp
◼ Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
* NN/g instructor: Ms. Whitenton, Master of Library and Information Science degree from University of Washington.
** NN/g instructor: Ms. Whitenton, Master of Library and Information Science degree from University of Washington.
Experience workshops are a great way to enhance IA/UXD skills.
Other Topics Included
◼ Interaction Design◼ Mobile User Experience 1 & 2
◼ Designing Complex Applications & Websites 1, 2 & 3
◼ Intranet Information Architecture 1 & 2
Education—Credentials—
Professional Qualifications
Syponses of Curricula
University Accreditation
Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC-ACSCU)◼ Curricula
Steven Heitman
IA Design & Usability
Sr. User/Design Researcher
Information Architect
User Experience Designer
Interaction Designer
Product Designer
User-Centered Designer
Usability Tester
Technical Writer
Corporate Trainer
Project/Product Manager
Director
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