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Experience
Senior Design Analyst, frog design
2005-present, San Francisco
- Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture design, interaction design, and usability testing.
- Design and specify user interfaces using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and so forth.
- Create user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.
- Projects include enterprise applications, consumer electronics, websites, intranets and mobile media.
Information Architect, Agency.com/Red Sky Interactive
1999-2003, San Francisco
- Designed websites, intranets. web applications and interactive TV applications.
- Defined functionality, navigation systems, user interaction, information architecture and data flow.
Program Officer, International Research & Exchanges Board
1997-98, Moscow, Russia
- Managed a $300,000 project to disseminate training materials to 100 information centers across the former Soviet Union and Mongolia.
- Conducted a needs assessment of 100 non-profit information centers and used feedback to improve design of information delivery systems.
- Constructed bi-lingual online database and 235-page handbook that allow users to locate training materials and information centers.
Webmaster & Program Assistant, The Eurasia Foundation
1995-97, Moscow, Russia
- Designed and maintained the Foundation's first Russian language website.
- Reviewed small grant proposals for non-profit Internet projects.
- Devised Foundation's strategy for funding Internet projects in Russia.
- Evaluated completed grant projects through site visits and interviews.
Education
University of California at Berkeley, School of Information
Master of Information Management & Systems, 2005
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Bachelor of Arts, Russian & Eastern European Studies, 1995
Publications
Improviz: Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvisations
Jon Snydal and Marti Hearst. Conference on Human Factors and Computing (CHI 2005). Portland: ACM, 2-7 April 2005.
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Contact
jsnydal [at] hotmail.com
Expertise
Cartography
Ethnography
Information Architecture
Information Visualization
Interaction Design
Social Computing & Navigation
Technology in Emerging Markets
Methods
Content Analysis & Strategy
Contextual Inquiry
Heuristic Evaluations
Interviews & Surveys
Participatory Design
Personas & Scenarios
Prototypes
Storyboards
System & Site Mapping
Task Flows & Analysis
Usability Testing
Wireframes
Clients
Digital Skills
Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop & Visio
CSS, HTML, Java, JSP, SQL & XML
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