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User-Centred Design Specialist, London
May 04 04
Source: BCS-HCI
User-centred design Specialist (Investment Banking)
Location: London
Start date: ASAP
Salary: Excellent Package
Leading global investment banking firm currently seeking a UE specialist to champion user-centred design within the organisation; presenting to IT teams and management, training other members of staff in user-centred design techniques and planning appropriate techniques for system evaluation, enhancement and redesign.
You will be responsible for:
* conducting user and stakeholder requirements elicitation research; using various techniques such as contextual enquiry, field interviews, participatory design sessions and surveys with internal and external users
* conducting usability evaluations of existing systems prior to redesign (lab testing, heuristic evaluations, cognitive walkthroughs etc)
* analysing user research findings and communicating these findings to designers, developers and business owners
* working closely with designers and developers to produce interface prototypes including deliverables such as schematics, site maps, wireframes, HTML prototypes
The successful candidate will have:
* a minimum of 3 yrs experience of planning, conducting and analysing the results of quantitative and qualitative user requirements research
* minimum of 4 years experience working in HCI interaction/ usability / user-centred design
* thorough understanding od design issues for web-based interfaces (Java, HTML, and Javascript), 2/3 years experience working on web-based systems desirable
* experience producing interface prototypes in vector-based drawing tools (Visio, CorelDraw, illustrator)
* excellent communication skills (written, spoken, presentation, negotiation, persuasion)
* knowledge of investment banking highly beneficial
If you meet the above criteria and would like to apply for this role, please send your CV to Bo Cheng, bo at evolveconsultinguk.com
Apologies in advance, we will only contact short listed candidates