Job: Lead UI Engineer

Dynamic startup seeks Lead UI Engineer with Swing experience

Do you want to help build a great company and product? Our Client is a funded enterprise systems management startup looking for a Lead UI Engineer to build innovative GUI products.  They take UI seriously – they read Tufte, hire visual design consultants, and spend the extra time to make a table of line charts sortable.

As Lead UI Engineer, your chief responsibility will be to design and build foundational UI technology for our current product and planned product line.  You will work on a daily basis with our highly skilled team of Interaction Designers and Product Managers.  You will strive for simple, coherent designs at the code and interface level.  You will build and test your own code – no architecture astronauts allowed!  Our client is a startup, so you’ll be wearing lots of other hats, too. Depending on your background and interests, you might work on product definition plans, assist with partnering activities, help ramp up our technical field force, or write some technical documentation.

You must have experience building complicated, dynamic user interfaces.  Bonus points for any systems management background.  You must have experience with Java and Swing.  You’ll also need to have completed a BS in Computer Science. Our client offers salary and equity compensation, family medical and dental coverage, and a 401(k).  Their offices are located in Research Triangle Park, NC.

If you are interested in learning more, please send your resume and cover letter to EJ at ejdarisse@hirenetworks.com.

Job: Senior UX Positions – MathWorks

Senior User Experience Researchers and Designers at The MathWorks (multiple positions).

Come work at a great, stable company where:

– The development organization understands and supports user centered design

– User centered design happens on our products, our web site, *and* the internal tools our employees use to do their jobs

– You can be part of a dynamic team of other usability specialists.

– The company is profitable, growing, fun, and committed to changing the world with our products

So what will you do?

You will be responsible for providing user centered design activities related to several MathWorks product areas. You will work with teams to understand the user centered design needs of their projects and then develop creative solutions for meeting these needs.

You will make recommendations to team members about what usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions for their projects. You will work closely with the team members to help them develop user profiles and create task lists. You will help them create paper prototypes, and review online prototypes developed by others.  If your skills lie in visual and interaction design, you’ll take on design projects for your teams.

You will run usability tests, conduct interviews, organize surveys, and complete any other usability assessments you think are appropriate. You will help the developers’ record and interpret the results, and you will be responsible for making sure that the project team understands what users’ feedback means. You will help the team decide what to do about feedback, and will provide input for design decisions based on that feedback. You will participate in documenting requirements and functional design specifications.

Qualifications:

– BA or MA in cognitive psychology, human factors, or related field, or equivalent experience

– 4-8 years as a usability engineer in software development, with direct experience with a variety of usability methods

– Knowledge of MathWorks products or Perforce a plus

– Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

– Ability to balance needs of a large number of concurrent projects.

All positions are located in Natick, Massachusetts.

For more information or to submit your resume, please contact Amy Kidd, Manager of MathWorks Products Usability at akidd@mathworks.com

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About The MathWorks:

Join us in accelerating the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. At the MathWorks, we cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that nurtures individual growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

The MathWorks, creator of MATLAB® and Simulink®, was founded in 1984 and currently employs more than 1,800 people worldwide. The company has been profitable every year since its inception and is privately held. 

Come join us!

ASIS&T Fall 2008 Workshop

PUSHING BOUNDARIES IN INFORMATION VISUALIZATION:
Using Virtual, Immersive and Interactive Technologies in Research & Practice

The Carolinas Chapter of ASIS&T (cc:asis&t) is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop Pushing Boundaries in Information Visualization to be held at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in beautiful Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Saturday, September 13, 2008.  The focus of this workshop is on current and developing technologies to enable more effective collaboration within professional and research environments.

PROGRAM GOALS
1)  Showcase some of the innovative uses of technology in terms of virtual and immersive environments for interacting with information

2)  Generate attendee discussion around the use, integration and evaluation of such tools (i.e. how do we evaluate the use of these technologies?  how can research improve practice? how can practice inform research, etc.)

WHEN    Saturday, September 13, 2008
       9:00 am – 4:30 pm

WHERE   Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
       UNC Campus – ITS Manning
       211 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

COST    Free for ASIS&T members
       $50 non-members
       (ASIS&T student membership is only $40)

REGISTER Online at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/carolinas/events/fall2008workshop.html
       Attendance limited to 45
       Payment must be received by Monday, September 8

PARKING Ram’s Head Parking Deck on Ridge Road north of Manning Drive; Dogwood Parking Deck, corner of Manning Drive and Hospital Drive, one block west of ITS Manning http://www.dps.unc.edu/maps/visitor/Visitor.pdf

PROGRAM
A number of researchers will demonstrate the ways in which they have been able to take advantage of current technologies in order to manage their collaborate projects and share research data using RENCI’s facilities, including its high-tech Social Computing Room, an environment providing a full 360-degree display and allowing virtual, immersive, and interactive engagement for groups.  Attendees may also experience haptic environments and multi-user online social environments that offer possibilities for further expanding virtual, immersive, and collaborative work.

The program will feature a colorful mix of research projects ranging from electrical stimulation of the nervous system with cochlear implant, to scalable visualization of genealogy links, experiential look at the death penalty, visualizing activity on a busy website, and comparing human and yeast cell protein interaction networks.  Attendees need not be familiar with the disciplines of these research projects – the program will expose you to the use of immersive and interactive technology across a range of disciplines and then encourage discussion about the possibilities.

Breakfast, lunch and a delightful reception are included in the program – so please join us for this immersive and engaging program.

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