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UI Designer, EMC|Documentum
Jul 18 05
Source: direct submission
Company: EMC|Documentum
URL: http://www.documentum.com
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Position Title: UI Designer
Duration: Full Time
Job Description:
Want to shape the face of Information Lifecycle Management? Live for solving complex enterprise problems then designing superbly simple solutions?? Have ideas about data and how it should represented?
Interested in taking enterprise UI to the next level? We are looking for a hands-on senior UI designer who has a passion for designing innovative, visually appealing human interfaces. You will drive your customer-centered designs throughout the project lifecycle - from concept to prototyping to implementation. Ready to change the game?
Ready for a challenge? Then this is the job for you.
Responsibilities:
* Day to day interface design work for software and web applications
* Plan and conduct contextual inquiries and cross-functional team
interpretation sessions
* Capture and consolidate individual and organizational work
practices in scenarios, diagrams, and work models
* Create new work practices through team analysis, visioning, and
storyboarding
* Create mockups and prototypes and then validate with users in their
workplace, replaying real work events in proposed systems
* Write user interface specifications and layout conceptual artwork
* Work closely with engineers to implement visual and interaction
designs throughout the product development process
* Assess & solve usability issues in user interface designs using
heuristic evaluation and other appropriate methods
* Throughout the product development process, continuously adjust
user interface designs that balance engineering, marketing and user
needs
* Drive the adoption & definition of platform standards across
applications
Qualifications:
* Able to quickly analyze problems and suggest appropriate solutions
in many settings
* Ability to communicate and advocate for results via conversation,
visual design and writing
* Proven ability to take complex problems and design elegant simple
solutions, OS experience a plus
* Well versed in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver,
Flash, and/or other graphic "standard" applications
* Advanced Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Usability
Engineering, User Interface Design, Cognitive Psychology or
equivalent directly related design experience
* Well-versed in Usability and Human-Computer Interaction research
and literature
* Proven success with over 5 years practical design experience; at
least 3 of the 5 years with direct UI design in either software or
web applications
* Knowledge of both software and web technologies (XML, XSL, Flash,
Swing, VB, HTML, DHTML, JSP, etc.)
* In-depth knowledge of cross-platform and cross-browser
compatibility issues
Personality:
* Articulate, ultra-creative, can do attitude, great sense of humor,
proactive, a generalist.
Contact Information:
Kristi.Thompson@documentum.com