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Usability Specialist, Whirlpool
Jan 22 05
Source: London usability
Whirlpool is the world's leading manufacturer of major home appliances. We are looking for an experienced Usability Specialist to join us in Global Consumer Design - an award winning design group, located in Cassinetta of Biandronno, Varese, Italy.
You will provide usability and research solutions to Industrial Designers, Product Developers, Engineers, and Marketers to ensure that user-centered design principles and methods impact our wide range of consumer products - products that make a difference to people's lives!
As a specialist in our GCD User Experience Group you will help to design and execute product evaluations, usability studies, and user-needs research; and you will apply a high standard of rigor as you analyze data and provide actionable design recommendations.
Your ability to demonstrate leadership and ownership of your projects and products will ensure that you drive those recommendations into the product's final design.
If you have the experience and the talent, and if you are up for the challenge, then we want to hear from you. We want you to become a key member of our multidisciplinary team that includes Usability and Human Factors specialists, Behavioral Psychologists, Cognitive Scientists, Industrial Designers, Instructional Designers, User Interaction Designers, and Visual Designers.
This positions will suit individuals with experience and a demonstrable track record of success in the usability field.
Required Qualifications and Experience
• You will hold at least a Masters Degree in Experimental Psychology, Human Factors, Ergonomics, or a closely related behavioural science discipline; • You will have at least 2 years of industry experience as a hands-on Human Factors or Usability practitioner; • You will have a strong research background, with proven experience in experimental design, data analysis, and results interpretation; • You will have a working knowledge of user-centered design processes; and of user- interface design principles; • You will have a track record of taking ownership of projects, and will be able to produce work of a very high standard without close supervision; • You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills; • You will demonstrate the drive and aptitude needed to learn rapidly and to begin contributing and making an impact immediately.
If you meet the requirements described above please send the
following:
1. Your resume or full curriculum vitae including a list of any publications; 2. The names and contact details of three referees.