Please send your responses to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> UX Designer ||Harrisburg, PA Our client, in Harrisburg Pa, is looking to hire seasoned UX Designer/Researchers with demonstrated leadership to work on large, long term design projects (including mobile and social media). Responsibilities:
* Plan and conduct user research activities at every stage of the product lifecycle. * Provide insight and vision to the team based on researching user needs. * Collaborate with UX Designers, Visual Designers, and Developers to define and improve the user experience. * Synthesize research findings from user research and other data sources (market research, usability research, site analytics, and secondary research) into actionable research findings and recommendations. * Identify best method or combination of methods based on research questions, timeline and resourcing. * Lead and facilitate customer research and usability testing activities. * Work directly with client project teams to facilitate design sessions, provide feedback on wireframes, and lead definition of patterns and standards. * Collaborate and consult with clients, team members, and other stakeholders to translate rough ideas and opportunities into clear concept models, tangible prototypes, and elegant screen designs. * Be a champion for users' needs from requirements gathering through solution definition. * Elicit requirements and fully document design work products. * Participate in the full design and development cycle to ensure that creative innovations in user-centered design are faithfully delivered to our clients. * Lead project teams, report status and escalate issues appropriately. Qualifications: * BS, MS, or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, or related field. * Minimum 5 years user-centered research (6-10 preferred). * Experience conducting a wide range of UX research methods and techniques, such as field research, usability studies, persona development, surveys, etc. * Strong design facilitation skills leading project teams in participatory and collaborative design sessions. Experience with JAD a plus. * Strong application of interaction design best practices. * Clear understanding of usability heuristics and experience performing real-time design evaluations. * Demonstrated experience solving complex user (cognitive) problems through visual design, interaction design, and usability expertise. * Demonstrated skill applying user-centered design practices, e.g., using ethnography data, user needs analysis, participatory design, end-user observation data, and usability testing data to influence design decisions. * Has performed various HCI/IA tasks including personas and use case scenarios, prototyping, flow diagrams, wireframes, card sorting, labeling schemes. * Ability to rapidly sketch out user-flows with pencil and paper, whiteboards, or post-it notes. * Strong experience developing interactive prototypes and documentation to aid evaluation of designs for complex applications. Experience with Axure a plus. * Strong design foundation including adept use of grids, typography, color harmony, etc. * Has designed for accessibility, Section 508-compliance. * Excellent visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage and convey ideas to technical and business teams with passion and diplomacy. * Experience working with use-cases and RUP-like processes a plus. * Must be a U.S. Citizen. * Willingness to submit to drug screening and background check (client requirement). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "as400placements1" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hrccpl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
