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Interaciton Designer, Microsoft Denmark
May 31 05
Source: Direct Submission
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>719 Visual Studio.NET Product Designer
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>You will be responsible for:
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>Leading the product design efforts in a small, productive team,
>creating development tools as part of Visual Studio .NET. These
>development tools will empower users to model and implement
>applications, based on the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). You will
>play a key-role envisioning, creating and validating the user
>experience of the development tools. You will, furthermore, ensure that
>your team focuses on usability best practices, during the development
>phase, e.g. user centered design and follow-up on issues and findings collected during usability studies.
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>We are looking for:
>- Strong design and visualization skills. You have a well-defined design
>process in place and are up to date on new research in the field of
>product design. You are able to create rapid low-fidelity interaction
>prototypes, as well as realistic-looking prototypes in e.g. Director/Flash.
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>- Proven track record with Windows UI design.
>- Theoretical and practical knowledge/experience with usability
>evaluation of UI prototypes.
>- Experience with current user-centred design methods, e.g. contextual
>inquiry, task analysis, cognitive walkthroughs, usability studies and
>user workshops.
>- Solid coordination skills. You are self-motivated and able to plan and
>drive your own tasks. You have the ability to multi-task.
>- Outgoing personality. You are ready to hunt down required information
>and resources in order to drive projects to closure.
>- An enthusiastic team player - both tactful and persistent. You can
>evangelize usability and design practices to wide range of teams and
>effectively brief teams on usability issues and proposals for improvements.
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>You will be further qualified if you have:
>- Expert level in Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio and Director.
>- Previous experience in user research around Visual Studio .NET.
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>- Technical/software development background, knowledge of developer
>tools, and object oriented development.
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>We offer you:
>- The possibility to put your fingerprint on one of the most popular
>Microsoft products - Visual Studio .NET sold to millions of developers
>worldwide.
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>- An excellent software engineering work environment with cutting edge
>technologies and challenges.
>- An international work environment that is characterized by
>flexibility, an informal atmosphere and a fast pace.
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>- Highly professional and motivated colleagues who value and support
>your contribution.
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>- An attractive compensation package that will match your qualifications
>and responsibility.
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>- The opportunity to work in Microsoft's largest development centre
>outside the US, situated in Vedbęk, Denmark.
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>Job description:
>MBF is the first 100% model-driven development environment and will be
>shipped as part of Visual Studio .NET and be the technology of choice
>for creating and customizing business solutions. Your upcoming team
>creates a set of API's and tools, which empower Visual Studio users to
>model and implement applications based on MBF.
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>Besides being an individual contributor focused on product design and
>usability for MBF, you will be working with a team of fellow product
>designers, user researchers and usability engineers, visual designers
>and program managers planning the product design work and provide
>user/customer focus for the teams. You will be responsible for aligning
>and outlining guidelines for good UI design and drive UX consistency
>into the product.
>You will participate in cross-group product design initiatives, UX
>reviews and usability tests spread across Redmond, Fargo and Copenhagen
>- this position will therefore involve some travelling.