We’re excited to be sponsoring MESH for the fifth year in a row! We love MESH because it brings together great people and all things digital.   The speaker line-up is stellar this year.  Instead of having one or two keynotes (like a typical conference) there are four “Keynote Conversations”. Ryan Carson kicks things off talking about ‘The Evolution of Education..and what that means”.   It will be interesting to learn

The Company At Usability Matters, we are passionate about user experience, and create strategic solutions for our clients using UX tools and best practices. We use design research to validate and enrich our designs, resulting in the best possible product for our clients. After 11 years in business, we have a stellar reputation in Toronto and beyond. We offer a dynamic and supportive working environment. We believe in

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Usability Matters is so proud to announce that we are Silver Level sponsors of Girls Learning Code

With 2013 well underway we’re excited to announce the addition of two talented new staff to the Usability Matters team: UX designer Nick Crampton and art director Simon Coyle. Nick Crampton joined us in the fall of 2012. Since then, he’s taken the reins on a number of UX design projects, honing and proposing new designs and UX concepts to our clients. He also moonlights as our resident DIY tech geek, encouraging us t

Like most Toronto-based designers, we were thrilled when IxDA’s Interaction 13 conference touched down our city last January. For four full days we got to reconnect with the design community, hear from some of its best thinkers, and make new friends — all within walking distance from our office. This year we were especially impressed by the number of sessions that drew attention to the human aspect of interaction des

Malcolm Gladwell says ‘blink’ is about “[w]hen you meet someone for the first time… your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions.” BlinkedIn is what happens when you see someone’s LinkedIn pic for the first time and your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions…  

The Opportunity As a member of the UM team, you will design strategic solutions for our clients using UX tools and best practices. We want someone who is passionate about user experience and will share that passion with our team, our clients, and our colleagues in the field. The Company Usability Matters is a dynamic firm devoted exclusively to user experience. We are an established boutique agency with a stellar rep

The Opportunity We need a talented and passionate interface designer. Someone who can work hand-in-hand with our team members to produce typical UX deliverables but also translate these ideas into compelling, engaging designs. Essentially we need a creative graphic designer with really strong UX chops. Someone who wants to remain hands-on in Photoshop but can extend into areas typically handled by a user experience l

~ We are no longer seeking applications for this role. Thank you! ~   The Opportunity We need a QA Tester to join our team in a freelance capacity for a series of website projects. The role will be to review all the sections and pages of the clients’ in-production website, ensuring that: The content on every webpage matches the content of the Copy Deck The style on every webpage follows the design templates for

~ We are no longer seeking applications for this role. Thank you! ~   The Opportunity We need a developer to join our team for a series of website projects, primarily (but not exclusively) for a large financial client. In addition to this role, the project team will include a Project Manager, UX Designer, and Writer. The project team will take an existing website design and customize it for a series of internati