Interaction DesignerPosted: October 27, 2009
Title: Interaction Designer
Location: East Windsor, NJ
Length:Perm
Rate: DOE
A client of ours in Princeton, NJ is looking for a talented, motivated, and enthusiastic person to join their fast-growing product interaction design team as an interaction designer focused on software developer experiences.
Our client is well-known in the software developer industry, particularly amongst .NET developers, as the number one maker of UI components (a.k.a., widgets) and tools. In the last few years, they have branched out into other areas, especially the experience design space.
You will get to work with folks who are passionate about making great software. Because they make software tools for software developers, you get to work on really challenging design problems involving multiple levels of design concern, and you work on products built on the latest technologies to facilitate making your designs a reality. You also get to find harmony between blank slate design and working within the added constraints of .NET frameworks and tools (Visual Studio & Blend).
Daily Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with product management to craft and execute on plans for appropriate user research in your problem domain(s), including ongoing contextual inquiry and ethnography.
* Distill your research into effective and usable formats like personas, design principles, and high-level goal and activity analysis summaries.
* Collaboratively sketch out multiple design ideas, actively critique your own and others* sketches, and iterate to discover the best designs.
* Create prototypes of varying fidelities based on the needs of the given design problems.
* Communicate your designs effectively to visual designers and engineers and actively collaborate with them through implementation to resolve design questions and ensure desired execution.
* Facilitate usability testing as needed on your designs, prototypes, & products.
Requirements:
* At least 4 years of application development with MS technologies and a bachelor*s or higher degree; or equivalent experience. Experience with interaction design is a major plus.
* Portfolio illustrating your interaction design & development work.
* Demonstrable knowledge of biz software development and processes, including Agile.
* Familiarity with human factors, user/design research techniques, UCD or Design-based process, how to create common interaction design deliverables, & usability testing.
* Familiarity with latest Microsoft UI technologies and tools, esp. ASP.NET & XAML-based.
* Positive attitude and willingness to learn and try new ways of doing things.
* Interpersonal skills, consensus builder, comfortable with critique, empathetic, & passionate.
Human Capital Management, Inc. is a staffing firm focused on the most important part of the Information Technology industry-PEOPLE. We are dedicated to attracting the area's most talented IT professionals. At HCMI we use the term partnering when describing relationships with our consultants. That is because we invest the time to understand the motivating force behind each consultant, provide consultants with a strong understanding of our clients' projects and strive to match each consultant with a project which will satisfy the consultant's short and long term needs. Only by connecting the best consultants to the best projects is HCMI able to drive the New Economy. HCMI has been able to identify, attract and develop intimate relationships with the most exciting projects throughout the Mid Atlantic Region. Please refer to job code 91939 when responding to this ad.
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