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Sr UI Designer, Oracle
Aug 15 05
Source: ID Discuss
Sr UI Designer position at Oracle
Location: Redwood Shores, California
Provide user interface design support for Oracle Tools & Server Products.
We are harnessing the power and reliability of Oracle's database and server technologies to improve the productivity of our customers and the effectiveness of their work with others.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will be focused on Oracle's technical-user productivity and development products. Since these products support professional users, to make them great, our process is highly collaborative.
You will be working within a multidisciplinary development team, championing customer interests, and contributing product interface designs during product definition, design, and development.
Specific responsibilities include working closely with product managers to identify and clarify customer requirements developing rich and realistic user scenarios to support product definition and design; designing user interaction models which contribute to a high-quality product experience; communicating these designs to the development team through diagrams, drawings, detailed specifications and interactive prototypes.
As the product evolves, you will be responsible for assuring a consistent design direction, as well as resolving trade offs between your design and implementation issues. You will work closely with usability engineers to define front-end research and identify on-going support usability efforts throughout the product development cycle. Also you will work closely with visual designers to achieve an attractive and appropriate product appearance.
As a Senior designer, you will also have the opportunity to mentor junior designers and student interns.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Master's degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction,
Interface Design or other related discipline
* At least 5 years professional experience in the software industry
* Extensive experience with the design of native (thick-client)
applications interfaces
* Experience designing interfaces to browser-based (thin-client)
applications a plus
* Portfolio available for review, preferably, on line
* Strong conceptual skills demonstrated through elegant and
innovative solutions to user interaction problems
* Strong communication and inter-personal skills honed through years
of working in multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams
* Experience applying customer-centered design methods to product
development
* Expertise in DHTML, Director, Flash or other interactive
prototyping tools a plus
Contact:
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Richard Wright
Director, Tools and Server Products UI
richard.wright@oracle.com
OR
Kristyn Greenwood
Manager
kristyn.greenwood@oracle.com