I’m looking for a “t-shaped” person to help expand my small User Experience team. Someone who is smart, web-savvy, and can handle multiple projects while evangelizing customer experience.

Our team is busy envisioning unseen solutions to complex design, business, and technology challenges. We’re trying to change the culture of a billion dollar travel company one prototype at a time. Our focus? How things should be, not how they are.

Like a startup, we have a small, passionate team and things move fast. Unlike a start-up, you don’t have to worry about 80 hour weeks, burnrates, or poor benefits. The company I work for has 9,000 employees in over 45 countries and a long successful history behind it.

Our campus is located in Southlake, TX (minutes away from an Apple Store!). And we enjoy working in the best suburb in Dallas/Ft. Worth area (no, really, it’s cool for a suburb).

We’re looking for the right people: Folks passionate about interaction design, information architecture, front-end development, design research, new technologies— in general ‘making things work for people’ (our mantra).

Sound interesting? (No, really I’m fun to work with!)

Let me know: http://www.jeremyjohnsononline.com/connect/

Today I played with the iPhone for about an hour in the store. In person it’s better than anything you’ve read. I don’t understand how Apple got the phone to be so “snappy” (aka. responsive). You can switch tasks, watch videos, scroll around on a website, all without any lag. It’s amazing for a phone. I’ve used Sony, Nokia, Blackberry, Palm, and LG phones. None which come close to matching the iPhone’s responsiveness and overall aesthetics. My current E62 takes 5+ seconds whenever I click on a application, and the multimedia features are about useless.

It’s really like going from Windows 3.1 from 1994 to Apple’s OSX in 2007. They both have “windows”, let you use multiple applications at the same time, both have calculators, and both let you type Word documents - but once you get past the list of features and actually use it - it’s obviously a world of difference.

The one thing that was holding me back from getting an iPhone was the lack of corporate email support, but after playing with it today, that seems minor…

This weekend was Free Comic Book Day. I think this was the first time in ten years I’ve set foot in a comic book shop. The last time I was collecting comic books Spawn was the hot comic. I think it’s a good idea for the publishers, I got to sample some comics - and enjoyed the experience. I really enjoyed the Simpsons comic (I even bought a Futurama comic!) and I got a Donald Duck comic for my 18 month old.

While I’m geeking out:

• Check out this rocking Star Wars vs. Ping Pong Shirt
• And what would happen if the Simpsons did a episode of Battlestar Galactica?

And it’s not even 9am. Check out this new Threadless shirt, and be sure to listen to the Blog song…

Quark gives up and releases a new logo

This looks hilarious! The must see movie of the summer!

I’m liking the new eightface redesign

I will be speaking at the The 14th Annual Richland College Multimedia: Computer Arts Festival, April 4 & 5

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Not that it’s a secret or anything, but I’m getting an Apple Store 5mins from my house! (Hopefully my property value is going up as I type this!).

I took this picture while spying shopping at the Southlake Shops this past weekend. Looks like they are going to let Apple keep the “Apple Look” - most of the shops have a old 1900’s town square look. Wonder how they got away with that.

Josh and the Firewheel Design gang will almost be able to see the Apple Store from their office. Now that’s some great office space! - Josh, need any help over there?

Jared tagged me for a “get to know your blogger” meme that’s making the rounds. So as not to make him angry (he’s like 7 feet tall!) here you go:

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

• Tooth Painter
• Bookseller
• Customer Service (the headset kind)
• Designer

Four movies I can watch over and over:

• Serenity (same as Jared)
• The Incredibles (same as Jared)
• Zoolander
• The Beach

Four places I have lived:

• Fishers, IN
• Cicero, IN
• Keller, TX
• Grapevine, TX,

Four TV shows I love to watch:

• Battlestar Galactic
• Firefly
• West Wing
• Survivor

Four places I have been on vacation:

• Mumbai, India
• Paris, France
• London, UK
• Dublin, Ireland

Four websites I visit daily:

• Flickr
• Google
• digg
• del.icio.us/popular

Four of my favorite foods:

• PB&J
• Any Pasta
• Fast Food
• Breaded or Fried anything

Four places I would rather be right now:

• A quiet place
• On Vacation
• Home
• Paris

Four bloggers I am tagging:

• Bryan Busch
• Stephen Anderson
• Patrick Mcleod
• Bill Turner

(I was going to tag Garrett, but I think he’s above meme’s now…)

If you have been tagged, please join in on the fun - and post a comment when it’s up.