Our client, the "most successful software company in the world", is seeking a Product Interaction Model Designer to partner with a team that works with one of the company's most famous products. This position is "the big-time" - highly visible, highly challenging, and highly rewarding. While it's a contract position, it is sure to have a lasting impact on the career of the chosen candidate. After all, these products are used by hundreds of millions of people! The position will help the team understand (through user research - both marketing focus groups and 1:1 usability sessions) appropriate interaction models for the next version of the software. The candidate will work with the illustrator (static Photoshop illustrations and dynamic Flash prototypes) to deliver the prototypes and mock-ups and drive research and testing. Finally, the interaction designer will be handing off the requirements to the engineering teams around the proposed implementation of the functional elements.
The job: - Taking customer research and translating it into interaction concepts - Driving brainstorms with the marketing and engineering teams to develop innovative interaction models - Documenting interfaces - perhaps in Visio or PowerPoint - Working with illustrators in the team to create mock-ups - Testing basic mockups, updating the interaction - Improving the look and feel of certain web experiences, marketing landing pages - Storyboarding the user experience, screen-by-screen - Assisting the user research with "what-if" and "A-B testing" mock-ups - Delivering concepts to the engineering teams and working with the team through implementation The team: - The team has in-the-box products (that a billion customers - or 800,000,000 PCs - receive regularly) and web assets. They regularly deliver marketing - most of it online - to a worldwide audience. This team is one of the most fun and exciting groups to work with, with some of the highest workgroup satisfaction index scores. The skills: - Strong foundation in HCI and prototyping concepts (from paper prototyping to high-fidelity prototyping) - Excellent familiarity with Jakob Nielsen's usability heuristics - Solid understand of heuristic reviews, cognitive walk-throughs, usability studies, etc - Decent hand-drawing / sketching abilities - Web and in-the-box software UI experience - Program management and collaboration skills - Brainstorm organization skills The "pluses": - Flash prototyping skills - Photoshop skills The details: - We are looking for someone who is available for at least nine months, up to a year. - You will receive access to a no-cost health plan option, a 401k with immediate vesting, and many other perks you would be hard-pressed to come by as a contractor anywhere else. Our company has resources, and we are happy to share. - The job would require presence on site and active collaboration with team members. - The candidate should be familiar with rapid design techniques and should be comfortable with "over the shoulder collaboration." - Candidates must have excellent samples/portfolio that clearly shows the abilities being asked for. The candidate should be ready to bring a USB memory stick with files and/or printed samples if interviewed by our client. Interested? Send resume and samples to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work will be reviewed and qualified applicants will be contacted within 48 hours. Sakson & Taylor, an Aquent company, is a firm that offers content design and development, marketing, and creative services solutions. For more than 20 years, we have helped provide outsourcing and staffing solutions to clients such as Microsoft, HP, and Starbucks. We're a minority-owned business, committed to maintaining professional quality with a personal touch. Agata Kijanka Recruiter - Microsoft Sakson & Taylor, an AQUENT company E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Direct: 206.883.2875 | Cell: 206.914.7127 Fax: 206.632.6927 Ask Me About Our Excellent Referral Program Visit www.sakson.com <http://www.sakson.com> to find out more about Sakson & Taylor, an Aquent Company. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
