John Armitage
Has also published under the name of:
"J. Armitage"
Personal Homepage:
http://johnarmitage.com
Current place of employment:
BusinessObjects SA
John Armitage is Director of User Experience at BusinessObjects SA, the leading provider of Business Intelligence software to large organizations. His experience in enterprise software design began at Peoplesoft.
John started his career in packaging and graphic design. During the 1990s, after designing a number of educational CD ROM titles, he led user interface design and training efforts for Adobe, Bank of America, the US Federal Reserve Bank, and Samsung. Projects included advanced UI concepts, commercial Websites and applications, desktop software, and efforts to improve access and ease of use for large mainframe computer systems. Over several years, he led much of the effort to redesign Sabre's comprehensive travel reservation product suite for travel agents.
As a Design Lead for Internet consulting firm Viant, John led experience design and branding efforts for Autodesk, Charles Schwab, European equity trading site Consors.de, and Myreplaytv.com. As a member of Viant's Experience Center, he helped determine and disseminate best practices for involving product end-users in Viant's design and development process. After a period of consulting for a media software company and working with PeopleSoft as a UE designer, he joined BusinessObjects in 2003.
John advocates user-centered design techniques, such as user research, participatory design, and iterative prototyping. He has spoken, tutored, and consulted internationally about the user interface design process, and holds graphic design degrees from Miami University and Rhode Island School of Design.
Publications by John Armitage (bibliography)
» 2004 «
Armitage, John (2004): Are agile methods good for design?. In Interactions, 11 (1) pp. 14-23
» 2003 «
Armitage, John (2003): From user interface to uber-interface: a design discipline model for digital products. In Interactions, 10 (3) pp. 18-29
Hakim, Jack, Spitzer, Tom and Armitage, John (2003): Sprint: Agile specifications in Shockwave and Flash. In: Proceedings of DUX03: Designing for User Experiences 2003. pp. 1-14. Available online
Armitage, John (2003): "And another thing...the current site is in German": the final project in an international digital business consultancy. In: Proceedings of DUX03: Designing for User Experiences 2003. pp. 1-15. Available online
» 2001 «
Armitage, John (2001): Industry briefs: Viant. In Interactions, 8 (2) pp. 75-79
» 1999 «
Marcus, Aaron R., Frank, V., Armitage, John and Guttman, E. (1999): Global User-Interface Design. In: 1999. pp. 772-776.
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Publication statistics
Publication period:1999-2004
Publication count:6
Number of co-authors:6
Productive colleagues
John Armitage's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:
Aaron R. Marcus:66V. Frank:2
Tom Spitzer:1
Collaboration count
Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:
Tom Spitzer:1Jack Hakim:1
E. Guttman:1
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