SAS R&D India. Pvt. Ltd seeks a usability analyst for its R&D Usability team.
As a member of the R&D Usability team, this person will design, prototype, and document SAS solution user interfaces. The duties of this position will include conducting usability studies, prototyping and producing detailed UI design specifications; ensuring user interface consistency within a multi-application suite; creating and maintaining usability standards; evaluating new technology, and other duties as assigned. Expectations * Works on a single product or product suite. * Focuses on user goals and needs and the flow of tasks to achieve those goals. * Designs and conducts usability field studies & contextual design projects. * Influences the product development team to support UCD. * Demonstrates awareness of market/ competitors and knowledge of users in problem solving. * Independently develops long term strategy for usability work on product. * Communication and presentation skills necessary to present, explain, negotiate, and monitor design solutions. Primary responsibilities * Performs research focused on understanding work practice and user behavior as individuals and as part of a work group. * Interacts with customers, user groups, and marketing to identify functional requirements. * Works in cross functional teams to translate functional requirements into system design. * Designs, develops, and documents high level and detailed prototypes to effectively communicate designs. * Runs design reviews and usability tests with key stakeholders and representative users to validate designs. * Produces specifications describing the appearance and behavior of the user interface for a product in development. Technical Skills * Creates screen designs using image processing tools like Photoshop, Fireworks and MS Visio. * Develops functional prototypes using Flex. * Familiar with UI guidelines for relevant development platforms like Windows, Swing and Eclipse. Educational Background * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Cognitive Psychology, or related field. * User interface design experience. Work Experience * Minimum years of experience: 5 years * Maximum years of experience: 8 years To apply, please submit your resumes online using the following link: http://sas.taleo.net/careersection/10080/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=09001385 (Please click 'Apply Online' button seen on the above webpage) Note The candidate may be given a design task if necessary. ________________________________________________________________ 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
