On the evening of September 26, we’re hosting the very first meetup for Atlanta Data Visualization & Infographics. If you dig the visual display of quantitative information (and who doesn’t!) and you’re lucky enough to live in The ATL, then 1) join this meetup and 2) join us on the 26th.
Participants will have the opportunity to present their work, and get feedback from everyone in attendance. We’re not sure what we’ll present yet, but I’m thinking about showing off the GuildQuality Scorecard.
We’re hiring a Web Designer to be the steward of GuildQuality’s online aesthetic. Our ideal candidate would be reconstructed from the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci and Edward Tufte.
What you’d be working on: We’re developing the next version of our application, and want to beef up the team with some super talented people. We’re looking for a development-oriented designer to complement our design-oriented development team. If you’re interested in helping us build new stuff, you will have a lot of fun at GuildQuality.
In addition to helping us build the next GuildQuality, our web designer will care for, scrutinize, maintain, and enhance all of GuildQuality’s public-facing stuff. That includes our website, email notifications, and survey design, as well as the marketing features that we provide our members. That means you’d be doing everything from designing and building campaign landing pages, to analyzing conversion rates of our free trial signup traffic and making informed design improvements, to noodling with the formatting of our ratings, to agonizing over how to make our members’ performance summaries as accessible and compelling as possible.
To learn more about the opportunity and apply, check out the job posting.
P.S. Here’s some background on GuildQuality’s culture.
We just launched a new GQ Poll, and you can now vote for your favorite house from among ten great pictures we gleaned from our members’ portfolios. The poll closes at the end of April.
The winning company and one random voter will receive a copy of Coming Home, a new book featuring the work of Jim Strickland and his colleagues at Historical Concepts, written by Susan Sully.
Click here to vote for your favorite house.
P.S. You can add beautiful pictures of your work to your own member profile page by way of the Marketing Admin section of your account.
I stumbled across a couple of our design sketches from earlier this year, and thought you might find them interesting. This is pretty representative of how we approach design here at GuildQuality. For this project, we engaged a contractor, Chris Turner (super guy), to build our project mapping functionality, and then it was up to David to incorporate it into our member’s profile pages.
While he was in the home stretch, David requested some design input from me. I was on vacation at the time, and happened to be drawing with my daughter (hence the crayons). I made some notes, took a couple pictures of them with my iPhone, sent them to him, and he finished up the project. The sketches and notes are the two pictures on the left; the final product is on the right.
This is pretty much how we approach most of our design projects. Here are some more sketches from GuildQuality Polls (launched in February) and our Dashboard (overhauled in the Fall of 2011).
Does your work shape the human habitat? Then you’ll probably have an interest in this documentary.
Thanks to Erin Rosintoski for the pointer.