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Lead Web Interaction Designer, Blue Shield of California
Nov 19 04
Source: Direct Submission
Lead Web Interaction Designer
Blue Shield of California supports and celebrates the different lives and life paths of our customers and our employees. It only makes sense that if you want to produce positive change in health care, you start with a healthy balance in your own company.
This position leads interaction design work such as navigational structures, information maps, and working prototypes to fulfill functional and user requirements for web-based content and applications. We'll rely on you to collaborate with visual designers, user experience analysts and product managers to define the user experience strategy, spearhead a user centered design process and develop usable, useful and compelling web site experiences, as well as identify target audience and objectives, analyze needs, set scope and interface strategies providing project teams with functional templates, prototype and site maps to be used as a blueprint for graphic design, content and technical development. You will also be expected to consult with and make recommendations to management on interaction design issues, plan and lead the design phase for projects that have a major UI design component, and analyze and communicate results of usability evaluations to stakeholders
as necessary. The successful candidate must be recognized as an interaction design expert.
Qualificaitons:
* Bachelor's degree and seven years related experience including experience as an interaction designer or information architect or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Extensive experience creating sketches, flowcharts, storyboards and web-based prototypes to demonstrate and test functional designs.
* Experience developing user requirements using Use Case methodologies.
* Experience developing templates, workflow, taxonomy and categorization for CMS and search engines.
* Experience with usability test planning and moderating is desired.
* Experience leading cross-functional teams during discovery and design phases of projects
* Experience conducting user research and developing user personas.
* Working knowledge of various web-related technologies including HTML.
* Working knowledge of visual design tools.
* Ability to understand and interpret existing site design and style guides and create effective solutions.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to work with all levels in the organization.
* Strong leadership and strategic skills.
* Strong project management skills.
* Working knowledge of various web-related technologies including HTML, XML, JavaScript
* Working knowledge of visual design tools including Visio, PhotoShop, Illustrator
* Familiarity with user centered design methods including task analysis and user scenarios
* Ability to translate usability test results into design requirements or adjustments.
* Proven team-building skills
* Strong negotiation skills
* Ability to think quickly and assimilate complex issues and ideas quickly
* Excellent meeting facilitation & small group presentation skills
* Strong project management skills; V work plans, issues, lists, planning and prioritizing
We know our well-being depends on yours, so challenging career opportunities are combined with a generous benefits plan in a high energy, respectful environment. Apply online at www.mylifepath.com/careers, Job #1619 and come do great things with us. Equal Opportunity Employer.