Hi folks, I'm really glad to say that Infragistics is looking to augment our interaction design team. This is a team I have a lot of personal investment in and want to see succeed and set the bar for interaction design at [mid-size] software companies. I've been with the company for almost three and a half years; it's been a great ride, and I still like it a lot. The stuff we're doing and looking to do is just awesome.
Hope some of you will consider joining us. Please feel free to reply & email me off list with questions, CV, résumé, etc., tweet @ambroselittle<http://twitter.com/ambroselittle>, skype ambroselittle <skype:ambroselittle?add>, or connect & message on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/ambroselittle> or LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/ambroselittle> . -ambrose P.S. Here's the official job description schtuff: Infragistics is looking for a talented, motivated, and enthusiastic person to join their fast-growing product interaction design team. Infragistics 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, we have branched out into other areas, especially the experience design space, bringing Quince<http://quince.infragistics.com>, our UX design pattern explorer to the design community in early 2009. At Infragistics, you get to work with folks who are passionate about making great software. Because we make software tools for software designers and developers, you get to work on really chewy 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. Infragistics cares a lot about making great experiences, not just for our customers but for our employees—we have competitive benefits, very relaxed dress code, flexible culture, and we’ll soon be moving into a new HQ designed by HLW (http://www.hlw.com) that will provide a physical environment reflective of who we are. *Things You’ll Do* - 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. - Rinse and repeat. *Requirements* - A bachelor’s or higher degree, preferably in HCI, Design, library sci ences, or humanities; or equivalent experience in interaction design. - Portfolio illustrating your interaction design work. - Demonstrable knowledge of human factors, user/design research techniques, UCD or Design-based process (Agile—a plus), and how to create common interaction design deliverables. - Familiarity with usability testing. - Experience working with real-world business software applications; experience designing for Microsoft technologies a plus. - Interpersonal skills, consensus builder, comfortable with critique, empathetic, & passionate. *Location* Remote work is not an option--we want to see your smiling face in person--but relocation assistance is negotiable. You will be working in our HQ, which currently is in East Windsor, NJ but will soon be not far from here, right off Exit 8A (Jamesburg <http://www.jamesburgborough.org/>/ Cranbury <http://www.cranburytownship.org/> area). *Benefits*: http://www.infragistics.com/careers/benefits.aspx *Web*: http://www.infragistics.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
