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User Experience Designer
New York, NY, USA

Experience: Min 3-5 years
Relocation: Possible
Travel: 10%
Salary: Competitive
Category: Corporate Software/Internet Application/Product Design

Description:

A New York based B2B community infrastructure provider for the financial services and life science industries is looking for someone to join their growing Product Design group as a user experience designer. Responsibilities include producing innovative, visually appealing human interface designs; creating design prototypes; planning and conducting usability testing; working with developers to make designs a reality. Successful candidate will work independently, engage team members, communicate ideas, and finally work with team members throughout the release cycle of the product. This position reports to the Principal Designer.

Responsibilities:

  • Generate designs based on common sets of HCI, graphic design, interface design and other relevant theories.
  • Create prototypes at different levels of fidelity: paper, wireframe, interactive HTML, and Flash.
  • Present ideas and concepts to x-functional teams and incorporate feedback accordingly.
  • Create visual elements such as icons, borders, custom widgets, window treatments, and graphical layouts.
  • Collaborate with Product Design team to develop concepts of key additions and edits for the product.
  • Communicate designs to business specialists and marketing team members for validation and buy-in.
  • Communicate designs to development and provide definition and direction during implementation.
  • Communicate designs to quality control and provide clarifications during the testing phase.
  • Work with Principal Designer and Product Design team to evolve internal design process and standards.

Requirements:

  • 3-5 years experience in application interaction design (UI Design, Product Design); solid experience with both web applications (not web sites) and desktop applications.
  • Education in design, HCI, usability or ability to display formal understanding of design and HCI theory and practice.
  • Understand in-house product design lifecycle.
  • Good communication skills: written and verbal.
  • Knowledge of browser-based technologies (HTML, J ava, Flash).
  • Prototyping skills using DHTML, Dream Weaver, Flash, or similar.
  • Experience with developing and running usability testing.
  • Experience with field research (goal-directed method by Cooper is preferred).
  • Should demonstrate ability to use design processes for problem definition and solution creation while working individually and with a group.
  • Ability to create graphical elements: icons, widgets, windowing and boarders, data layout.

More info and application instructions:
http://www.experiencepeople.com/job_1875_ny.html

Received: 23-Aug-05

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