Design Mediates Life

How to hire front-end engineers

http://theonda.org/articles/2011/01/21/how-to-hire-front-end-engineers

Excerpt:

Chris Zacharias, a YouTube front-end developer, had a very thoughtful postaround the challenges of hiring front-end engineers. Despite having hired a lot of engineers during my career (as engineering manager, VP of engineering, founder, & CEO) and having honed a process for figuring out who was likely to work, the front-end (HTML, CSS, & Javascript) role has become the biggest challenge of the lot— especially after the 2004 "AJAX revolution" when the role became quite a bit meatier.

And it wasn't until Zacharias's piece that I realized that it's because I'd always used the wrong resume screening & interview approach. Because I've recently fielded a load of questions from entrepreneurs who also find this a hard role to recruit and hire for, here is a list of the "don'ts" that I had to learn the hard way.

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Anyvite, anyone?

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Wufoo: Online Form Builder

http://wufoo.com/

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Parenting the Chinese Way: Is this real?

The Roar of the Tiger Mom http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2043313,00.html

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interview: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android

Check out: "Exclusive interview: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android" - www.engadget.com http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/exclusive-interview-googles-matias-duarte-talks-honeycomb-tab/?icid=engadget-iphone-url

We're not going to lie -- we're pretty excited to bring this to you guys. Here at CES 2011 we had a chance to sit down with Matias Duarte, the man behind webOS (as well as the Sidekick and Helio UIs), who's now heading up Google's user experience for Android. Matias is currently driving the interface and design for Android 3.0 (AKA Honeycomb), and it's clear that he's bringing his big, bold ideas to the Android platform. This is the first video interview Matias has done since leaving Palm, and we pressed the man on his involvement in Gingerbread and Honeycomb, what had to be torn down in Android, how desktop OSs can inform mobile devices, and much, much more. Don't just take our word for it -- follow along after the break and watch the full interview!

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Smithsonian on "Genius of Design"

Documentary series on the Smithsonian Channel called "The Genius of Design". Each episode has its own topic and includes interviews from world famous designers - past and present as well as historical and future trends. One was on a history of materials and talked about the design 'revolutions' caused by the Eames' brothers molded plywood, and impact of the invention of plastic. Another was about sustainability and focused on cradle to cradle design.

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?series=784

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Sketching and Experience Design

Lecture by Bill Buxton for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547).

Designing for experience comes with a whole new level of complexity. This is especially true in this emerging world of information appliances, reactive environments, and ubiquitous computing, where, along with those of their users, we have to factor in the convoluted behaviors of the products themselves.

In this talk, Bill discusses the design process itself, from the perspective of methods, organization, and composition.