Hi IxDA-ers!
I'm part of an amazing R&D group in Microsoft that works on the borderline of research and products, with innovation as its main goal. The group is called "Office labs" and its charter is to explore the future of the productivity space in the broadest sense. The good news is that we're hiring! The labs got some media coverage recently, when Bill Gates used its Touch Wall prototype for his presentation: http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/05/16/microsoft_in_touch_with_future.html If it sounds interesting to you, and you can work in the US - keep on reading the description, and then send your CV to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ruth And to the position descriptions: **************************************************************************** *************************************************** POSITION 1 **************************************************************************** *************************************************** Are you interested in joining a world-class user-experience (UX) design team within one of Microsoft's most strategic innovation groups? Our Productivity Services and Social Networking Incubations are looking for a top-notch UX designer to help conceptualize, design and deliver world-class user-experience solutions across an array of cutting-edge projects. As a new R&D group in the Microsoft Business Division, Office Labs is focused on pushing the productivity horizon farther through rapid innovation. As part of this effort, our Incubation teams will focus on building code as if it were to be shipped, with projects ranging from 6-18+months on average. Our project portfolio will include a diverse set of highly strategic MBD projects. Imagine helping to conceive a mobile phone that is custom tailored for information workers. or re-inventing the next wave of social networking software. or how about creating a new paradigm for rich interactive visualizations that will take the concept of immersive user experiences to a whole new level. The User Experience Design role will provide strategic value to the team's initiatives, helping to drive a user-centric interaction design strategy across the project initiative. As a UX Designer covering the Productivity Services and Social Networking Incubations, you will explore new UX paradigms for how social networking will affect the business information worker as well as provide and in-depth look at what productivity means outside the realm of professional life. What does a communication console look like if information work pivots away from an email-centric environment? How do we build solutions for consumer productivity tasks such as organizing a parent group or planning a home project? On our team, UX will be involved and integral throughout the project lifecycle - from conception to completion. Candidates should have a talent for designing rich, visual user-interaction solutions across a range of platforms and mediums. In addition, candidates should have passion for conceiving innovative user-interface models that explore concepts that lie well outside today's typical application GUI paradigms. Responsibilities -Help define, and own UX design deliverables across project initiatives (inlc. ideation, user-flow analysis, wire-framing, interaction design, visual design, branding and execution) -Facilitate early ideation sessions with brainstorming, storyboarding, rapid prototyping -Help develop and manage UX project schedules across multiple projects -Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members/leads to evaluate and extend project proposals and early concept development Qualifications -5+ years experience developing world-class, forward-thinking user experience solutions -Proven track-record of hands-on user-interface design leadership for software -Expert level proficiency with common design tools (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, 3-D modeling, etc) -Strong design sensibilities and attention to detail required BS/BA or Masters Degree in Interactive Media-, Graphic-, or Industrial Design **************************************************************************** *************************************************** POSITION 2 **************************************************************************** *************************************************** Are you interested in joining a world-class user-experience (UX) design team within one of Microsoft's most strategic innovation groups? Then come and join Office Labs! Our Prototyping team is looking for top-notch UX designers to help conceptualize, design and deliver world-class user-experience solutions across an array of cutting-edge projects. As a new R&D group in the Microsoft Business Division, we are focused on pushing the productivity horizon farther through rapid innovation. Central to this effort lives our Prototyping initiative where we assemble small teams of high caliber developers, program, managers, and user-experience professionals who love to tackle ideas in the productivity space that are more risky than what can typically be attempted in a traditional product cycle. We partner heavily with product teams and MSR. We test ideas by shipping prototypes both internally and externally, and we work with product teams to make sure we provide them with all the necessary data to help them decide whether the idea should be in the next version of their product. Some of the current prototypes that we're working on include ideas around next generation user experiences, tools that allow communities to increase the value they get from the Office Suite, and extensions to the current Office Suite functionality The User Experience Design role will provide strategic value to the team's initiatives, helping to drive a user-centric interaction design strategy across the organization. As a UX Designer for the Prototyping group, you will be involved and integral throughout the project lifecycle - from conception to completion. Candidates should have a talent for designing rich, visual user-interaction solutions across a range of platforms and mediums. In addition, candidates should have passion for conceiving innovative user-interface models that explore concepts that lie well outside today's typical application GUI paradigms. Responsibilities - Help define, and own UX design deliverables across project initiatives (inlc. ideation, user-flow analysis, wire-framing, interaction design, visual design, branding and execution) - Facilitate early ideation sessions with brainstorming, storyboarding, rapid prototyping - Help develop and manage UX project schedules across multiple efforts - Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members/leads to evaluate and extend project proposals and early concept development Qualifications - 5+ years experience developing world-class, forward-thinking user experience solutions - Proven track-record of hands-on user-interface design leadership for software - Expert level proficiency with common design tools (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, 3-D modeling, etc) - Strong design sensibilities and attention to detail required - BS/BA or Masters Degree in Interactive Media-, Graphic-, or Industrial Design :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Ruth Kikin-Gil Experience designer and Researcher ........................................................................ Website: <http://www.ruthkikin.com/> http://www.ruthkikin.com eMail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthkikingil ........................................................................ "Our computers should be like our childhood: an invisible foundation that is quickly forgotten but always with us, and effortlessly used throughout our lives." Mark Weiser ________________________________________________________________ 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
