{"id":1283,"date":"2018-02-04T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/?post_type=rara-portfolio&#038;p=1283"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T00:39:15","slug":"ibm-associate-designer","status":"publish","type":"rara-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/portfolio\/ibm-associate-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Associate Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was hired at IBM Tucson at the end of April 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within 3 months I co-conducted a usability research session* for our storage software. I authored the report which guided the team\u2019s development, and followed up with them to ensure customer data was integrated properly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 4 months I led my first usability study and again authored a pivotal report.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The First Year<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arranged meeting of teams from 3 countries which decided design direction for storage division for the next 4 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selected to travel internationally for Agile training<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Took part in 4 usability research sessions* (lead 2)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The First 3 Years<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 usability research sessions* (lead 3)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrote definitive internal guide for conducting usability studies in IBM Storage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Represented Storage at IBM EDGE conference, attended IBM Design Camp, conducted 2 customer shadowing research sessions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selected by division director as 1 of 2 designers to reassign to Priority #1 software offering &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/spectrum-scale\/\">Spectrum Scale<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>In March of 2016 I was promoted to <a href=\"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/spectrum-scale\/\">User Experience Designer<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(* What is a usability research session? When I joined IBM in 2013, IBM Design had not been disseminated company-wide and in order to test designs with users we held usability research sessions. Before a release, we flew customers to a central location and spent consecutive days with each individual customer observing them complete a task list in order to examine each part of a given release. Now our research is done during all phases of our iterative design: before we begin, during iteration, and after implementation)<\/p>\n<p>The IBM 8-bar logo is a registered trademark of IBM.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hired at IBM Tucson at the end of April 2013. Within 3 months I co-conducted a usability research session* for our storage software. I authored the report which guided the team\u2019s development, and followed up with them to ensure customer data was integrated properly. At 4 months I led my first usability study &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","rara_portfolio_categories":[14],"class_list":["post-1283","rara-portfolio","type-rara-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rara_portfolio_categories-product-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara-portfolio\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rara-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rara_portfolio_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corythorpe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara_portfolio_categories?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}