Interaction Designer at EveryZing
Greater Boston Area
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- Interaction Designer at EveryZing
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- Owner & Designer at Splendid Noise (Sole Proprietorship)
- Chief Interaction Officer and Co-Founder at BigTreeTop.com
- Interaction Design Consultant at Center for Innovation in Assessment
- Student at Indiana University School of Informatics
- Intern at Oracle Corporation
- Education
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- Indiana University Bloomington
- Dartmouth College
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Schule (Gymnasium)
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Jesse Beach’s Summary
Interaction Design is a combination of technological concerns and humanistic concerns. I am predominantly focused on humanistic activities such as consensus building, fostering innovative thought and bringing stakeholder expectations into alignment. IT project failure occurs for many reasons and the human aspect is just as influential, if not more influential, than technical mishaps. Technology can always be evolved and puzzled through. People must be convinced.
Jesse Beach’s Specialties:
Experience with gathering requirements, ethnographic interviewing methods, observation analysis methods, interface prototyping, conducting formative testing, and the production of succinct recommendation summaries.
Jesse Beach’s Experience
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Interaction Designer
EveryZing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
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Owner & Designer
Splendid Noise (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
May 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Splendid Noise is a sole proprietorship registered in Boston, MA. The name stems from a poetic description of human speech. From the point of view of a computer, speech is noise. For humans, this noise has meaning.
Splendid Noise is a business focused on bringing meaning to the noise. Through partnerships with developers and graphic designers, Splendid Noise will shape your message to match the needs of your clients.
Splendid Noise is a results oriented company. We believe that a great user experience starts with knowing your customer and should continue throughout every subsequent interaction they have with your business. We make technology transparent so that you and your customers can focus on your goals. -
Chief Interaction Officer and Co-Founder
BigTreeTop.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — September 2007 (8 months)
I focus on interaction design. This involves research into our business customer needs, system specifications, UI design
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Interaction Design Consultant
Center for Innovation in Assessment
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)
May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)
The Center for Innovation in Assessment produces printed and online testing materials for K-2 teachers. Their tests are coupled with online reporting facilities that chart student progress.
I was hired to update their website interface and interaction design. The project had a 2 month time limit because they can only bring the system down when school is in recess for the summer.
I started the project with a battery of interviews with representatives of each influential stakeholder group identified in initial meetings with the staff. The interviews lead to an affinity diagramming session with staff and tech support people.
The redesigned web site conforms to legacy system limitations while updating the interaction paradigm. I removed inconsistencies in the interface and redid the information architecture so that task-similar items are grouped. Summative evaluations of the redesign cleared up minor usability issues and established the learnability of the new design. -
Student
Indiana University School of Informatics
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 10 months)
I completed a Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction at this University. The degree program was predominantly project-based although we also addressed theory of user-centered design and design in general.
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Intern
Oracle Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
Jesse Beach’s Education
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Indiana University Bloomington
MS, Human-Computer Interaction Design, 2005 — 2007
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Dartmouth College
BA, Linguistics, 2000 — 2004
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Schule (Gymnasium)
German language 1997 — 1997
Additional Information
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Jesse Beach’s Interests:
User Centered Design, the influence of metaphors in the interpretation of technology, rock climbing
Jesse Beach’s Groups:
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Phi Beta Kappa, BostonCHI, Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Boston
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Indiana University Human-Computer Interaction Design Alumni
Jesse Beach’s Contact Settings
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