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Interaction Designer - Internships, Microsoft
Nov 11 04
Source: Direct Submission
Company: Microsoft
Position Title: Interaction Designer - Internships
Location: Redmond, WA
Duration: Full Time
The Microsoft Windows User Experience team is seeking enthusiastic interaction design interns to contribute to making the personal computer more powerful, engaging, and rewarding to use. This is an opportunity to reinvent how people interact with computers, to turn new technology into positive user experiences, and to deliver a product that reaches millions of customers. If you are inspired by these plans, then this is the team for you.
As an Interaction Design intern, you will work alongside some of the world’s most talented product designers, usability specialists, and software developers, building the next generation of the Windows operating system. You will contribute to setting the vision for the future Windows user experience, serving as a user advocate to ensure the highest level of usability, desirability and customer satisfaction. You will research, design, and prototype product experiences that meet demanding quality standards, and you will drive your work through the software development process. You will collaborate with teams across the company to ensure we maintain industry leadership, delivering innovative, exciting and emotionally engaging products.
Candidates should have very strong skills in designing interaction and visuals for software or the web. The ability to articulate ideas through high fidelity prototypes is expected. You should be a good communicator and presenter, and show experience applying user research throughout the design process. Qualifications include at least 3 years completed in a degree program for industrial design, interaction design, or related field. Competence with major multimedia, design, and operating system software (Photoshop, Flash or Director, Windows, Office) is expected.
Please submit resumes (link to portfolio or school samples attached is required) to uxdesign@microsoft.com. For additional information about design at Microsoft please visit http://www.microsoft.com/design.