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Principal User Experience Designer, South Bay
Dec 16 04
Source: CHI-Jobs
Principal User Experience Designer
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY:
Evangelist for human-centered design (HCD) processes corporate wide.
Leads teams in efforts to improve the overall user experience and to streamline aspects of development process related to the GUI. Ensures UI specifications are completed in the design phase and is responsible for user experience throughout product lifecycle for multiple products or product lines.
Primary Role:
Design UIs based on user research, human-factors principles, platform style guides and industry experience in the form of high fidelity prototypes and formal UI specifications. Identify UI design patterns and document them in the form of detailed guidelines. Produce detailed UI specifications to guide development efforts on new features, products and product lines including:
-Use cases
-Task analysis
-Class diagrams of UI objects
-Interaction models
-Screen layouts
-Supporting prototypes (hi and low fidelity)
Secondary Role:
Coordinate review processes and gather UI requirements via the following
mechanisms:
-UI reviews
-UI walkthroughs
-Participatory design sessions
-Lab studies
-Field studies
In addition, this individual will take a leadership role in driving overall user experience project planning and infrastructure initiatives as well as mentoring junior staff.
Qualifications:
-Graduate level training in:
-Human Computer Interaction
-Human Factors
-Cognitive Psychology
-Other related discipline
-Eight or more years experience doing data driven UI design in a high tech company.
Skills:
Experienced at taking a leadership role helping multiple teams through the process of translating user data and human-factors principles into UI designs. Expertise in prototyping methods and developing and maintaining UI guidelines for multiple product lines, including definition of corporate wide standards. Experience with driving the adoption of user profiles, use cases, and scenarios into a development lifecycle. Must have experience in leading teams in the areas of task analyses, field studies, formal UI reviews, usability tests, and surveys. Demonstrated ability to learn complex technology. Must be a solid team player with good writing, presentation and project management skills. Must be able to generate business cases and identify priorities based on customer data to influence teams and management. Experience with IDEs, system/DB administration tools, B2Bi, EAI, and enterprise software a plus