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Senior User Experience Architect, Barkley Evergreen and Partners
Dec 08 05
At Barkley Evergreen and Partners, Inc., our mission is to do inspired work. So we’re looking for smart, talented, passionate people who believe in the power of ideas. We are the largest employee-owned agency in the United States. Which means we have resources but we answer to nobody but ourselves. Barkley Evergreen and Partners Interactive, is looking for a multi-talented Senior User Experience Architect to join our team of professionals.
Do you know the difference between user-centered design and usability? Do the names Neilson, Spool, Garrett, Norman, Cooper and Mayhew mean anything to you, and can you tell the charlatans from the visionaries? Do you enjoy solving ill-defined problems using a variety of design research methods? If you answered yes to the above questions, keep reading.
At BE&P interactive, Senior User Experience Architects lead online product research, strategy, information architecture development, and interaction design to create interactions between people and technology. Senior User Experience Architects are able to discover, understand, and communicate the business requirements of our clients, the emotional desires of their customers, and the context in which these two come together.
Responsibilities
- Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, behavioral modeling, information architecture design, interaction design, and usability testing.
- Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, design details, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
- Produce user requirements documentation, including personas, scenarios, wireframes, flowcharts, and visual prototypes.
- Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability tests, and other forms of qualitative and quantitative research.
- Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, design details, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
- Manage the design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules.
- Work closely with technical development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
- Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes creative team members, project management, business and brand strategists, and technical developers.
Requirements
- At least five years of user experience design.
- Strong knowledge of interaction design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to Web-based applications and Web sites
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as PhotoShop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
- Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS.
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Ability to confidently handle multiple projects and manage project deliverables without supervision.
Please submit electronic resumes only. Email to bprotzmann@beap.com No phones calls please. MUST submit salary requirements. EOE
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