I am currently seeking an IA with Top Secret or Secret Clearance. For immediate consideration please email your resume to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call me at 312-529-2508. Below is the job description and a brief description of Roundarch.
Sr. UE Designers are responsible for working with clients to develop meaningful interactive experiences. This role requires strategic thinking, UE team leadership, and acute communication with all members of the project team. Your past experience with activities and deliverables associated with user centered design allows you to add value to consumer, transactional and corporate web initiatives. Conducting user, stakeholder and competitive research will drive personas and scenarios that will result in conceptual concepts, annotated wireframes, interactive models, prototypes and functional specifications. You will be exposed to web 2.0 paradigms and methodologies that will transform linear UE thinking into a multidimensional experience. Responsibilities * Plan, coordinate and conduct user research, contextual and ethnographic studies, participatory design and usability testing * Conceptualize and design user interfaces and information architecture using participatory design * Produce personas, scenarios, process flows, annotated wireframes, design prototypes, and functional design specifications for complex transactional web applications and portals * Produce scalable taxonomies and metadata tagging for enterprise content management systems * Effectively aggregate and communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually * Shepherd the design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules * Conduct usability testing and incorporate recommendations into the design * Work closely with development teams to QA development and implementation * Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other user experience designers, project managers, business strategists, and technical leadership Required Experience * At least five years of user interface design experience * Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to web-based applications * Excellent communication and organization skills - must be able to function as a thought leader as well as an individual contributor * Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Visio, InDesign, and Dreamweaver * Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web technologies such as CMS, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS Strongly Desired Experience: * Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or behavioral science discipline * Experience with web 2.0 and rich internet concepts and delivery methodologies Why Roundarch Roundarch is a specialized consulting firm with offices in New York and Chicago, (http://www.roundarch.com/). We bring together the best user experience and technical skills to deliver outstanding innovative solutions to our clients; Fortune 500 companies and large government organizations. Our clients look to us to solve high-impact problems at the heart of their business. Roundarch is amongst the first companies to embrace Rich Internet / Web 2.0 design principles and technologies and incorporate them into their design philosophy. We are committed to User-Centered Design and don't cut corners. We educate our clients on the process and practice the full cycle; from contextual research to conceptualizing the solution to prototyping and usability testing. We design with one goal in mind: "delight the user." Roundarch is a true multi-disciplinary environment with dynamic management that respects and recognizes its employees for their contribution to the success of the company. rossanne wankovsky + R O U N D A R C H + bus 312.529.2508 + mob 630.401.2787 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
