Job: User Experience Designer

We’re looking for an outgoing, talented, and enthusiastic user experience designer to join us at HumanCentric.

HumanCentric is a product development services company dedicated to assisting its clients in developing compelling user interfaces through the application of skillsets in Human Factors, Design Research, Industrial Design, and Graphic Design.

We seek individuals experienced in the user-centered design process with a strong background in software design and usability.

Job duties include working closely with HumanCentric and client teams by:
Providing expertise and support to development teams during creation of user interfaces.
Rapidly, iteratively, and flexibly creating:
o Flow charts of task flows or information architecture
o Design schematics
o Wireframes of designs
o Paper and Interactive prototypes
o User Interface Specifications
o Usability test protocols and moderation
Driving usability evaluation efforts, when applicable, with the goal of analyzing and translating usability evaluation outcomes into design improvements.
Understanding product requirements and user’s goals and objectives.
Conceptualizing and creating user interface specifications that meet the product requirements of both clients and the clients’ customers. Products must meet user, technical, and creative expectations.

Motivated candidates should send their resume and portfolio to psnow@humancentric.com

Job: Associate Interactive Strategist

McKinney is looking for an associate interactive strategist to ensure interactive work is extraordinary by providing support for the Interactive Strategy department and agency in research, reporting, user experience, and identifying interactive possibilities. The candidate working with strategic disciplines to create the brand and business metrics and assesses the effectiveness of online campaigns against these metrics. Will create information architectures for websites, microsites, and landing pages, and mentor others on the discipline. Also, will assist in creating agency best practices for email, banner, websites, landing pages, and micro-sites. Experience using Google Analytics, Omniture, WebTrends a plus. Conversant in the following online disciplines (sites, online advertising, email, search, mobile, other). Knowledge of using online research tools (Forrester, Comscore, Omniture, DART, etc.). Must have BA/BS with 3-5 years experience in the interactive space that includes digital campaign management and user experience design.

Apply Here: http://www.talentzoo.com/index.php/Associate-Interactive-Strategist/?action=view_job&jobID=92753

Summer 2009 Software Development Intern:

Rho Software Development has established an unpaid internship for Summer 2009 for a college student whose program area of specialty focuses on user interfaces and usability designs of software applications.  We want to add usability design to the front end of our software development lifecycle at the point we gather requirements and develop the functional specifications for our software applications.  We are interested in leveraging a college student who had been studying these techniques in their degree program.  We would like for the research and techniques that are trialed during this internship to be well documented included training materials so we can utilize the processes/tools demonstrated once the internship is complete.  It is important at the end of the internship that the student can describe how their work has impacted designs, requirements documentation, and programmer behaviors.

Background skills preferred:

• Psychology training
• Experience with web design and page layout
• Familiar with the terms “human factors”  and “heuristics”
• Experience setting up and/or running usability studies
• Currently enrolled in a relevant Bachelor’s degree program (Usability design, etc)

Qualified applicants should submit a resume with cover letter to Careers@rhoworld.com.  No phone calls, please.

Rho, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job: Interface Designer – Raleigh

Insight is looking for a talented interface designer to help make compelling experiences and elegant products. Ideal candidates for this position will apply critical and creative thinking, communication-oriented design, and technological savvy to make products and services pleasurable and easy to understand. In this position, you will contribute to all aspects of interface design including assessing user needs, structuring interactions, and designing user touch-points and visual interfaces. Specific responsibilities include:

• Analyze and model user needs, tasks, and environments of use
• Develop user experience concepts from sketches to mockups to detailed design
• Design all aspects of visual interface appearance and behavior including layouts, icons, typography, color palettes, transitions/animations, and interface elements
• Create mockups and interactive prototypes for concept validation and testing
• Produce comprehensive specifications, templates, and storyboards that detail design solutions and rationale
• Work with product groups, users, designers, and engineering teams to design and define workflows and interactions
• Participate in product brainstorming sessions from conceptualization to completion
• Research competitive solutions and alternative designs
• Participate and assist with user testing and interpret new ideas and user needs

Qualified candidates must have:

• +2 years of experience in interface/interaction design
• Superb problem solving and information design skills
• Thorough understanding of usability and interaction design principles
• Exceptional visual design talent applicable to a wide range of contexts
• Mastery of design tools including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash
• Proven ability to convey concepts effectively through sketches and mockups, as well as through verbal and written communication

Please contact at Ross Teague at rteague@insightpd.com

Job: User Experience Designer

Are you ready for an outstanding opportunity working on an internal web-based application for a leading company in the triangle?? Ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1-3 years experience of user-centric research and design experience. This person will participate as a member of a team to ensure that the products are developed with ultimate usability and customer satisfaction. Understanding of usability interaction design or information architecture design is a bonus.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create wireframe mockups, online card sorts, workflows, and survey data analysis
• Participate in product brainstorming sessions and lead the user interfacing product design sessions from conceptualization to completion
• Document, communicate, cajole, evangelize and interpret new ideas and user needs

 

REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong understanding for usability and ability to communicate and present usability to team members
• Javascript, HTML, CSS experience
• Comfortable working in a highly-collaborative work environment
• Knowledge of user center design

 

BONUSES

• Agile development team experience
• Experience with OmniGraffle, Visio, and other design tools
• BS in industrial/product/interface design or equivalent experience
• Strong online design portfolio, including wireframes, mockups, user flows, or other Information Architecture

 

Contact Tom Romano at The Select Group, 919-459-1047, Tom@selectgroup-rtp.com

 

Job: UI/IxD Engineer

As UI/IxD Engineer, your chief responsibilities will be to:

Design and build foundational UI technology for our award-winning current product and planned product line.
Work on a daily basis with our highly skilled team of Product Managers and Engineers, providing input, guidance, and direction on user interface designs, concepts and ideas.
Strive for simple, coherent designs at the code and interface level. Our product reflects complex relationships between processes on multiple systems and the successful designer will be able to make those relationships obvious, while bearing in mind scalability and navigational concerns
Wear a variety of hats and contribute in multiple areas in our small start-up environment. Will work on both UI design and interaction as well as engineering and implementation.
Work with Product Management team to build initial UI mock ups very early in the software lifecycle which will be transitioned to engineering to deliver final UI designs
Work heavily with both marketing and engineering to determine not only the what of a design but the how and why. Provide regular rapid responses to implementation questions, making many decisions yourself and escalating others as necessary

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.

Requirements:

You must have experience building complicated, dynamic user interfaces.
Will be a champion of the user’s requirements, typical daily work flow, and will understand navigation of the UI.
You must NOT have a desire to work online in web/online interfaces. Our interfaces are built in Java and Swing and you should be comfortable with these technologies.
Strong leadership skills to guide junior engineers.
Must have experience shipping software as a product.
Bonus points for any systems management background.
You’ll also need to have completed a BS in Computer Science or related discipline or have significant work experience in IxD and UI implementation.

We offer salary and equity compensation, family medical and dental coverage, and a 401(k). Our offices are located in Research Triangle Park, NC.

We work with the best companies in the Triangle – You should too.

The Select Group is the award-winning, full-service Triangle recruiting partner that’s redefining the recruiting process. We specialize in placing candidates in contract, contract-to-permanent, and permanent positions in technology (IT), engineering, sales, marketing and executive management.

We’re all about relationships. We take the time, the time to understand your skills, your work style, your employment preferences.

We believe in the perfect match: you and your job. Find the job you love and you’ll never have to work again.

The Select Group continues to be recognized nationally and locally as one of the most innovative, fastest growing companies in the region. Recent acknowledgements include Inc. 500, Best Places to Work, #1 Triangle Small Business, Top Technical Staffing Company, and Top Executive Staffing Company. We’re all about you – You talk. We listen.

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All interested candidates, please send your updated word resume to Elisha at Elisha@selectgroup-rtp.com today! We will be contacting all qualified candidates this week!

Job: Information Architect (a.k.a. UX Designer)

Does maneuvering through the lousy design and archaic site architecture found on the average Web site make you crazy? Do you deconstruct the menu’s labeling metaphor at dinner? Do you believe that responsible web design goes beyond just pretty pictures and incorporates concepts like usefulness, findability, usability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement?

If you answered yes, then join the hesketh.com team!

Occupational Summary

You will be responsible for developing user-centered workflows, information architectures, user interfaces, and information designs, balancing usability and cultural factors with strategic goals and objectives. You will also collaborate with the programming and visual design teams to ensure your vision isn’t lost when the functionality is developed and the window dressing (branding) is applied.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Information architecture & User Expreience Design . Structure and label information in a usable, intuitive fashion; this involves determining site navigation, interaction, workflow, and overall user experience for Internet, intranet and extranet sites as well as web-based applications.
2. Research. Participate in user-centered design processes, especially conducting user research, competitive research, and usability testing.
3. Specifiction. Write specifications that define the user experience architecture (sitemaps, workflows), wireframes, and use cases of new Web sites and applications.
4. Collaboration. Collaborate with a diverse, user-centered design team made of Information Architects, Web Designers, Application Developers, and Account Managers for full life cycle web design and development.
5. Client presentations & training. Facilitate transfer of information to clients, including writing documentation and effectively communicating complex, abstract ideas to Web laymen.
6. Lead. Assess new methodologies, standards, technologies and trends, and formulate strategies and plans for the future of your discipline.

Qualifications

Education

BA or BS degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

Experience

• Minimum four or more years of experience in Web design and development.
• Strong portfolio required, including wireframes, page layout, and information architecture.
• Experience with large, complex, and dynamic Web sites.
• Agency experience preferred.

Skills

Must-haves

• Ability to translate theory into exceptional reality.
• Expertise in user experience architecture (sitemaps, workflows) and wireframes.
• Familiarity with the core principles of information design and theories of navigation.
• Experience with usability testing, ethonographic research, personas, and other user-centered design methodologies.
• Thoroughness and an eye for detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to analyze, define, and complete tasks with minimal direction/supervision.
• Eagerness to learn, share, and apply new skills and trends.
• Integrity, courtesy, and professionalism.
• Sense of humor.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience providing accurate and realistic project estimates and exercising the discipline required to meet them.
• Ability to write and edit Web marketing copy.
• Familiarity with, or interest in, ethical search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.
• Experience in coding browser-independent, standards-compliant XHTML and CSS.
• Foosball skills.

Location

In-house, Raleigh, NC.

Relocation

Not covered.

Send resumes and salary history to…
hesketh.com/inc.
ATTN: Personnel
5400 Glenwood Avenue
Suite G11
Raleigh, NC 27612

fax: 919.834.2553
email: careers@hesketh.com

hesketh.com/inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, or disability.

Job: User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer with industry leader!
$60-95K + great benefits package

Our client is seeking a User Experience Designer to provide interaction and interface design for software and systems used by wireless customers.  The User Experience Designer will work with carrier customers, product managers, client services and engineering to understand and address requirements and expectations.

 Responsibilities:

• Works closely with business managers to design and architect user experiences for consumer wireless device-based and web-based portals
• Collaborates with business stakeholders to develop and analyze software requirements to design an effective user experience
• Designs and creates user experience architecture diagrams (site maps, task flows) and wireframes
• Writes user interface specifications, detailing interaction design functionality
• Collaborates with visual designers and production engineers to ensure integrity of experience throughout design phases
• Works with product development and quality assurance to support implementation
• Assists in user research and usability testing of user interfaces
• Contributes ideas for improving processes and deliverables

Qualifications:

Essential:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

Experience: 3-4 years of professional GUI and interaction design experience in an e-commerce or software development environment; experience designing for a wide range of interfaces.

Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Microsoft Visio

Skills:

• Ability to think creatively
• Strong interaction design skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to evaluate customer needs and interpret software requirements to design effective solutions
• Exceptional critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Desired:  

• Prior experience using Jesse James Garrett’s visual vocabulary
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
• Proficiency in standards-compliant XHTML and CSS
• Prior usability testing experience

If you are interested please send a Word copy of your resume to Lisa@selectgroup-rtp.com.

Job: User Interface Engineer

User Interface Engineer

Position Description
Human factors and usability specialist responsible for applying user-centered design principles toward the creation and validation of user interfaces for Lenovo personal computing products and services.  Conducts task analyses, requirements gathering, competitive assessments, interactive design evaluations, and benchmarking studies with representative users in formal and informal settings using a broad variety of methodologies.  Defines user scenarios based upon collected requirements.  Writes detailed user interface specifications and creates prototypes for demonstration and evaluation purposes.  Works with representatives from product development, marketing, support, technology, and strategy worldwide to implement and track usability objectives appropriate to the defined user audiences.  Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned.

Position Requirements
Bachelors degree in related field. Masters degree preferred.

3 to 5 years directly related UI experience.

Experience with usability test methods.

Extensive experience with Visio, Captivate or related software system required. Some programming experience preferred.

Apply online.

EOE/AAP