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User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer
Are you passionate about designing user experiences; know user
interface design standards inside and out; know when to break the
rules? Are your designs easy, elegant and delightful? Do you
believe that people should just be able to use software and not have
to learn how to use software? Can you take our products to the next
level and want to help us turn user research data into world-class
software? Here’s the job for you!

Activities:
* Work with other members of the User Experience Team and
Department to ensure that all facets of a users experience are
considered – useful, desirable, usable, accessible, learnable,
credible and valuable.
* Work with design team to envision, create and validate user
interfaces and experiences for desktop software and web services.
* Employ participatory design, creative brainstorming, and other
techniques to collaborate with software engineers and other product
team members as part of an agile software development process
* Map workflows and user paths, create storyboards, mockups, low
and high fidelity prototypes and write UI specifications to support
development on multiple platforms.
* Design graphics, icons and other visual design elements
* Evaluate designs using user-centered design techniques such as
UI reviews and cognitive walkthroughs
* Maintain an awareness of current trends in technology, design and
usability

Required Skills & Background:
* At least 3 years experience in user experience or interaction design
for desktop software, websites or browser-based software; those with
outstanding portfolios and less experience strongly considered
* Undergraduate training or equivalent experience in Graphic
Design, Interactive Media Design, Human Computer Interaction,
Game Design or related field
* Technical / software development background, knowledge of
developer tools, and object-oriented development
* Working knowledge of human-centered design practices and
techniques such as task analysis, workflow diagramming,
storyboarding, walkthroughs and UI specifications
* Demonstrated ability to create graphics and icons that are pleasing
and appropriate
* Proven ability to design elegantly simple user interfaces
* Strong working knowledge of visual design programs, including
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop; Visio and Macromedia Flash
* Strong understanding of Windows, Mac, and Web UI Guidelines
* Creativity and problem solving skills
* Familiar with developer tools such as Visual Studio, C++, MFC,
.NET, XML, HTML, and JavaScript
* Self-motivated and able to collaborate with a diverse set of people
from many disciplines
* Keen attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* You must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Preferred Skills & Background:
* Experience in a commercial software or web service development
environment
* Fluency in a foreign language is a big plus