I need to post something about recruiters: They’re helpful people who can not only do a lot of leg work for you, but also give you insight into your industry and inform you of trends, analysis and hopefully salary data.

The reason I need to post something is because we’ve received a great deal of inquiries from this profession on our UX Professionals group on LinkedIn. The inquiries range from membership to sales to actual recruiting. Some are up-front, courteous folks who, faced with a direct question, will answer to their intentions; others are not at all as honest.

The UX Professionals group on LinkedIn doesn’t currently accept membership from recruiting because many, many (85%) members have asked that we don’t allow any direct contact via the list in regards to sales or recruiting. I hope that the people in these two industries understand that the entire group is using the majority rule here and, while not to some people’s liking, is going to be in place until next quarter so that we can establish a baseline membership and collect content for an industry site.

I’d love to hear from these two audiences so that they may have their free speech heard in a public forum.

We decided it was time to deliver a new look for the site. When we changed our brand from Aeropub Interactive to Visual Activity in October of last year, we had little time and limited resources to work on a new design, so we did what most people do and quickly put something together.

The site wasn’t horrible by any means, but it didn’t expand well and didn’t follow our brand strategy as well as we had intended. We’ve created a more open design and given the current content some breathing room. We placed a mast image at the top of the home page to use as a design cue for either seasonal or campaign-related imagery, given ourselves a little more room for cross-promotion in the left columns and designed the composition to be in line with today’s standards.

Speaking of standards, the site is currently bullet-proof via the W3C Validation Service using HTML 4.01 Strict, and validates for CSS using the CSS Validation Service.

We’d love to hear what you think. Reach out anytime.