Mersive Technologies, an exciting startup intent on changing the way the world designs, installs and uses displays, is looking for a new user experience director to join their team full-time.

The user experience director will be responsible for “the creation of a new class of display interaction products that will transform pixel-rich environments into visually rich, interactive, and collaborative infrastructure.

The user experience director will have the following responsibilities:

• Lead user experience design and assist with product management across several software product lines
• Work with product management to establish user-interaction paradigms appropriate to Sol Fusion
• Collaborate with customers and partners to better understand product requirements and market opportunities.
• Work with engineering management to translate customer requirements into actionable plans
• Design and Create aesthetics and visual components
• Lead strategy and implementation for standards-based framework for cross-platform media sharing
• Work collaboratively with engineering team to develop interface and designed functionality
Capabilities:
• Fanatical dedication to the user experience
• 7 years user experience design and leadership
• Educational background in human-computer interaction, product design, cognitive science / psychology preferred
• Fluency with web-based standards including CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, JSP
• Understanding of the engineering process, ability to participate in engineering planning
• Focus to detail

If you are a creative individual with a capacity for leadership, an ability to work with a team to create consensus around a shared vision, and a passion for design, send a resume and portfolio to software_jobs@mersive.com.

The folks over at Online MBA have created a cool new infographic detailing the history of product placement in the entertainment industry. Product placement has been around since the 19th century, when Jules Verne mentioned shipping and transport companies in his popular novel Around the World in Eighty Days and had an estimated value of $10 billion in 2010. The infographic details some of the more obvious examples of product placement such as Hershey’s spending of $1 million promoting E.T. for the rights to use E.T. in its ads. Also highlighted in its history of product placement are some lesser-known details, such as the fact that Tootsie Roll Industries didn’t pay anything for “The Junior Mint” episode of Seinfeld. I guess Larry David is just a really big fan of Junior Mints.

Via: Online MBA Advice

We (okay, just me) forgot to post a Tumblr of the Week last week, so this Thanksgiving Week, we'll give you a double dose. You weren't really planning on working today, tomorrow or half of Wednesday anyway, were you?

If real life was like Mad Men, we'd be riding a lawn mower around the office already.

So introducing: Better Book Titles. Enjoy.

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(It's okay to laugh...I'm Jewish.)