User Experience Professional At Large

That would be me. I was laid off on Monday, along with my manager, and most of our group. It took Monday and Tuesday to excavate my desk (30 years makes for a lot of stuff). As I had to turn in my badge end of day Monday, my (former) second level manager had to sign me in and get me a badge. While it said "Escort required", other than needing someone to open the outside doors for me, I had the freedom of the building. Excavated, visited around, etc.





I wouldn't say I'm in disbelief, although I still wonder at the logic of blowing away the corporate user experience group.

That said, I'm probably not going to seriously start looking for a job until at least after Thanksgiving.

However, if you know of anyone that needs someone to

• elicit user requirements,
• get an excellent understanding of the user's problem space from the USER'S point of view,
• facilitate the formation of product requirements,
• create user personas and scenarios,
• design a user interface architecture, and then populate it with the details of a user interface,
• as well as do iterative usability testing...
• preferred in the Portland area

let me know!

In the meantime, I'm going to ride a permanent next Tuesday. 200km, Prairies and Wetlands.