[IxDA Discuss] job:: visual designer/menlo park, california/Digital Insight/FTE
Contact: me (nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com iPhone: 650/336.3645 ) COMPANY NAME: Digital Insight (Intuit) JOB LOCATION: Menlo Park, California JOB TITLE: Visual Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek entrepreneurs who embrace change and value it as healthy growth. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level visual designer with strong skills in User Experience Design. The ideal candidate will work hands on with UI Designers, Experience Design Researchers and cross functional team members; will be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, while focusing on Ease of Use. * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals * Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of visual design * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, business analysts, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members * Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community Qualifications: * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, and/or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Solid visual design skills. * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Ajax, Flash, DHTML, scripting, and various other technologies a plus * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Flex/Flash Web UED/Mountain View, California/FTE
Contact: me (nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com iPhone: 650/336.3645 ) COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Web User Experience Development Specialist, 67511 JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Expert Flex/Flash developer to build an end-to-end experience for an exciting new rich internet application targeted at small business owners. Complete Description: We are looking for a talented and expert Flash and/or Flex developer to help us build an innovative and fresh web experience. Role is that of a specialist whose center of gravity is to translate visual design into reality. Candidate will partner with our visual designers to iteratively build all new web experiences for small business owners. This is the right job for you if: * You are passionate about creating user-friendly experiences, and have the attention to detail to perfect them * You are able to work autonomously but are able to communicate and assist the broader team * You like working in an agile environment where things move fast and are always changing * You are a creative person and want to make a big impact on the experience of a new and important product Qualifications : Required skills: * Excellent knowledge of HTML and CSS, including significant work experience in this area * Excellent knowledge of Action Script 2.0/3.0 * Experience custom skinning Flash and Flex components * Good working knowledge about visual effects and transitions in Flex * Skills creating artifacts in adobe Illustrator and Photoshop a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job:: visual designer/menlo park, california/fte/digital insight
job details attached below: thanks, -nancy nancy falkenburg | iPhone: (650) 336.3645 | email: nancy_falkenburg@ intuit.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 COMPANY NAME: Digital Insight (Intuit) JOB LOCATION: Menlo Park, California JOB TITLE: Principal/Staff Visual Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek entrepreneurs who embrace change and value it as healthy growth. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level visual designer with strong skills in User Experience Design. The ideal candidate will work hands on with UI Designers, Experience Design Researchers and cross functional team members; will be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, while focusing on Ease of Use. * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals * Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of visual design * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, business analysts, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members * Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community Qualifications: * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, and/or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Solid visual design skills. * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Ajax, Flash, DHTML, scripting, and various other technologies a plus * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job:: interaction designer/norcross, georgia/fte/intuit
job details attached below: thanks, -nancy nancy falkenburg | iPhone: (650) 336.3645 | email: nancy_falkenburg@ intuit.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 COMPANY: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Norcross, Georgia JOB TITLE: Staff/Principal Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek an entrepreneurial zealot who can change the world with his/her vision and relentless executioners drive. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level designer with strong skills and experience in UI architecture and design. The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with us er researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. Qualifications : QUALIFICATIONS: * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job:: interaction designer/calabasas, california/fte/intuit
job details attached below: thanks, -nancy nancy falkenburg | iPhone: (650) 336.3645 | email: nancy_falkenburg@ intuit.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 COMPANY: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Calabasas, California JOB TITLE: Staff/Principal Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek an entrepreneurial zealot who can change the world with his/her vision and relentless executioners drive. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level designer with strong skills and experience in UI architecture and design. The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with us er researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. Qualifications : QUALIFICATIONS: * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job:: visual interaction designer/san diego, CA/fte/intuit
job details attached below: thanks, -nancy nancy falkenburg | iPhone: (650) 336.3645 | email: nancy_falkenburg@ intuit.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 COMPANY: Intuit JOB LOCATION: San Diego, California JOB TITLE: Visual Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. We're seeking a very senior designer who has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. QUALIFICATIONS: * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: nancy_falkenb...@intuit.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Director of Customer Experience/San Diego, California/FTE
This is a newly-created position based in our San Diego location, reporting to the Vice President of Customer Experience Development. nancy Falkenburg | iPhone: (650) 336.3645 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: San Diego, California JOB TITLE: Director of Customer Experience JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Reporting to the Vice President of Customer Experience Development, the Customer Experience Director is responsible for leading and growing a multi-functional TurboTax product development team. This role involves applying innovative thinking to deliver product experience components for existing TurboTax desktop and Online software, as well as identifying new business opportunities. The Customer Experience Director also drives effective interaction across organizational boundaries, including product management, Operations and Engineering, Marketing, Support, and IT to deliver WOW experiences. Primary responsibilities include: * Partner with product management & marketing to understand business strategy and high-level product requirements * Lead team in identifying, prioritizing and executing on product innovations and improvements within scope of responsibility * Drive processes to identify and correct gaps in the customer experience based upon direct and indirect customer feedback * Create environment that fosters innovation and collaboration with marketing and product management to create product experience roadmaps and other deliverables * Drive changes in process & mindset around how we organize work and deliver functionality for customers... maintaining "good" processes and eliminating inefficiencies * Coordinate activities across the development organization as needed to deliver WOW end-to-end customer experience * Deliver software on-time and with highest levels of functional quality and customer ease-of-use Qualifications : -Proven team leadership in a customer-driven technology organization -Excellent leader/teacher -Proven leadership skills in complex, matrixed organizations... leading through influence and direct authority across intact teams and larger organizations -Strong organizational leadership and personnel management skills, including proven track record growing people and building innovative offerings that drive growth -Proven ability to create an environment that fosters learning, teaching, growth, risk-taking, innovation and fun -Experience leading change and inspiring teams with an exciting future vision -Solid understanding of technology and software development... prior hands-on experience in experience design and/or software development ideal -Prior experience using SCRUM or agile development a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Principal/Staff Interaction Designer/Norcross, Georgia/FTE
Here's your opportunity to re-invent online banking! This newly-created role will be located in our Norcross, Georgia office. nancy Falkenburg | iPhone: (650) 336.3645 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Norcross, Georgia JOB TITLE: Staff/Principal Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek entrepreneurs who embrace change and value it as healthy growth. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level designer with strong skills and experience in UI architecture and design. The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. Qualifications : * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: principal mobile design lead/mountain view, california/fte
*corrected typo in subject line* Contact: me (nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645) COMPANY: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Mobile Design Principal/lead JOB DURATION: FTE Intuit is seeking a Mobile Design Leader to help us produce useful and delightful mobile experiences. The hands-on Mobile Design expert is responsible for inspiring and helping guide the company-wide Mobile initiative. He/she will work with the Advanced Mobile Engineering team and others to design and build world-class mobile experiences. In addition, this individual will work with leaders across Intuit in product management, engineering, design, user research, and other disciplines to help establish Intuit as an inspiring, effective leader in delivering great mobile experiences. The Mobile Design Leader will have a proven track record in inspiring others to get behind a vision. He/she will bring deep knowledge of ideation, prototyping, frameworks and customer research in the mobile design space. The leader will effectively use these methods to produce great mobile designs and teach and coach others in these methods. This leader will have a broad network and excellent reputation with influential industry and academia contacts; and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a variety of business leaders, technology leaders, product managers and other key people. All Intuit leaders bring functional/technical skills, but equally important they lead through personal values consistent with Intuit's corporate values. The chosen Mobile Design Leader will have strong leadership and change management skills, including a hands-on, non-bureaucratic leadership style; open and frequent communications at all levels of the organization; the ability to both drive and collaborate across multiple business and functional units, and a genuine sensitivity to the development needs of the organization. Qualifications : * 10+ years of significant track record in defining and delivering great user experiences * 5+ years of experience in designing and delivering great mobile experiences * Extensive experience designing: messaging, mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications, including workflow, information architecture, and UI components. * Extensive experience with designing for different mobile input technologies (touch, multi-touch, voice, etc) * Demonstrated ability to paint a vision for design and deliver on it, and success in driving change in a matrixed environment * Master's in design, HCI or related fields; or equivalent experience * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Ability to masterfully articulate/define/integrate the role of design * Exemplary ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership, and to "raise the bar" continually as an effective leader of positive change * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people * Experience, comfort and track-record in dealing at all levels in a large organization, and in leading both through influence and hands-on ownership CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: principal interaction designer/mountain view, california/fte
Contact: me (nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645) COMPANY: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Mobile Design Principal/lead JOB DURATION: FTE Intuit is seeking a Mobile Design Leader to help us produce useful and delightful mobile experiences. The hands-on Mobile Design expert is responsible for inspiring and helping guide the company-wide Mobile initiative. He/she will work with the Advanced Mobile Engineering team and others to design and build world-class mobile experiences. In addition, this individual will work with leaders across Intuit in product management, engineering, design, user research, and other disciplines to help establish Intuit as an inspiring, effective leader in delivering great mobile experiences. The Mobile Design Leader will have a proven track record in inspiring others to get behind a vision. He/she will bring deep knowledge of ideation, prototyping, frameworks and customer research in the mobile design space. The leader will effectively use these methods to produce great mobile designs and teach and coach others in these methods. This leader will have a broad network and excellent reputation with influential industry and academia contacts; and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a variety of business leaders, technology leaders, product managers and other key people. All Intuit leaders bring functional/technical skills, but equally important they lead through personal values consistent with Intuit's corporate values. The chosen Mobile Design Leader will have strong leadership and change management skills, including a hands-on, non-bureaucratic leadership style; open and frequent communications at all levels of the organization; the ability to both drive and collaborate across multiple business and functional units, and a genuine sensitivity to the development needs of the organization. Qualifications : * 10+ years of significant track record in defining and delivering great user experiences * 5+ years of experience in designing and delivering great mobile experiences * Extensive experience designing: messaging, mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications, including workflow, information architecture, and UI components. * Extensive experience with designing for different mobile input technologies (touch, multi-touch, voice, etc) * Demonstrated ability to paint a vision for design and deliver on it, and success in driving change in a matrixed environment * Master's in design, HCI or related fields; or equivalent experience * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Ability to masterfully articulate/define/integrate the role of design * Exemplary ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership, and to "raise the bar" continually as an effective leader of positive change * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people * Experience, comfort and track-record in dealing at all levels in a large organization, and in leading both through influence and hands-on ownership CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: principal interaction designer/calabasas, california/fte
Contact: me (nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645) COMPANY: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Calabasas California JOB TITLE: Staff/Principal Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek an entrepreneurial zealot who can change the world with his/her vision and relentless executioners drive. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level designer with strong skills and experience in UI architecture and design. The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. Qualifications : QUALIFICATIONS: * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Manager, UED/San Diego, California/FTE/Intuit
Contact: me (nancy falkenburg, iPhone: 650.336.3645 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: San Diego, California JOB TITLE: Manager, User Experience Design JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do - developing, marketing and supporting products and services that transform the way people and small businesses around the world manage their finances. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The Accounting Professionals Design (APD) Experience Design team (XD) is tasked with designing the user experience for numerous desktop and web-based offerings for our finance professional customers. The XD Manager will be responsible for leading the user experience design team tasked with creating compelling solutions to help small businesses with employee management and payroll needs. Responsibilities: * Lead a team of Experience Designers and Researchers to define Shop, Buy and Use experiences that delight our customers * Work with the team and key stakeholders to understand and promulgate a strong vision for user experience * Collaborate across functional areas and segments to plan innovative changes to experience design methodologies, strategy, development processes, and organizational capabilities/structure * Provide design direction to ensure delivery of high quality user experiences * Drive the integration of user-centered research and design processes into the product development process * Prioritize Experience Research and Design work to align with the APD division's goals and objectives for the business you support * Oversee the work of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and User Research across multiple projects * Attract, grow and retain a world class team of experience designers and researchers * Manage all run-the-business aspects of the team (budgets, pe rsonnel, reporting) * Foster user experience collaboration across the Small Business Ecosystem and the Intuit XD Community on shared UI frameworks, design patterns, and cross-offering experiences * Stay abreast of external research, standards, inventions, and trends for potential opportunities Qualifications : * Master's or PhD in design, the social sciences, HCI or related fields, or related experience * Minimum 5 years experience managing design teams that deliver exceptional user experiences in new and existing offerings * At least 7 years of experience as a practicing visual designer, interaction designer, or other design-related role * Proven track record of leading user experience organizations to be highly influential, effective, and strategic within a matrixed structure * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Proven experience delivering products and services to the market * Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Manager, User Experience Design/FTE/Plano, Texas
Contact: me (nancy falkenburg, iPhone: 650.336.3645 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Plano, Texas JOB TITLE: Manager, User Experience Design JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do - developing, marketing and supporting products and services that transform the way people and small businesses around the world manage their finances. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The Accounting Professionals Design (APD) Experience Design team (XD) is tasked with designing the user experience for numerous desktop and web-based offerings for our finance professional customers. The XD Manager will be responsible for leading the user experience design team tasked with creating compelling solutions to help small businesses with employee management and payroll needs. Responsibilities: * Lead a team of Experience Designers and Researchers to define Shop, Buy and Use experiences that delight our customers * Work with the team and key stakeholders to understand and promulgate a strong vision for user experience * Collaborate across functional areas and segments to plan innovative changes to experience design methodologies, strategy, development processes, and organizational capabilities/structure * Provide design direction to ensure delivery of high quality user experiences * Drive the integration of user-centered research and design processes into the product development process * Prioritize Experience Research and Design work to align with the APD division's goals and objectives for the business you support * Oversee the work of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and User Research across multiple projects * Attract, grow and retain a world class team of experience designers and researchers * Manage all run-the-business aspects of the team (budgets, pe rsonnel, reporting) * Foster user experience collaboration across the Small Business Ecosystem and the Intuit XD Community on shared UI frameworks, design patterns, and cross-offering experiences * Stay abreast of external research, standards, inventions, and trends for potential opportunities Qualifications : * Master's or PhD in design, the social sciences, HCI or related fields, or related experience * Minimum 5 years experience managing design teams that deliver exceptional user experiences in new and existing offerings * At least 7 years of experience as a practicing visual designer, interaction designer, or other design-related role * Proven track record of leading user experience organizations to be highly influential, effective, and strategic within a matrixed structure * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Proven experience delivering products and services to the market * Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Web 2.0 Application Interaction Designer/FTE/Mountain View, California
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Web 2.0 Application Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE Contact: nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645 JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit is looking for a strong, experienced, Web 2.0 application interaction designer. You will be familiar with Web 2.0 technologies and directions. In your new role, you will need to be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. As the successful candidate, you will work in an agile environment, as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design. You will be part of a company that promotes superior interaction design and usability as a core competencies. * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite the complexity of the problems we're solving * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with us as part as part of our agile development team * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end workflows and tasks * Learn new technologies, quickly * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Be critical; compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, UI text writers, peer designers, and art directors; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors Qualifications : * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Familiar with Web 2.0 technologies (as they relate to design_) and directions * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products preferred. * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web software * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Principal/Staff Visual Interaction Designer, New Offerings/FTE/Mountain View, California
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Principal/Staff Visual Interaction Designer, New Offerings JOB DURATION: FTE Contact: nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645 We are looking for a talented Staff Interaction Designer to join the New Offerings Accelerator team. Our charter is to help new offering teams quickly launch their offerings to customers. We help new offering teams by providing them with infrastructure and technology that is rapid to develop and deploy. We also help teams overcome roadblocks and focus on addressing customer problems. *Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. *Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce jaw dropping work. *Turn ideas into amazing design. *Be both creative and pragmatic. *Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy *Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, UI text writers, peer designers, and art directors; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors Qualifications : * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products preferred. * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web software * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Principal/Staff Visual Interaction Designer/FTE/Menlo Park, California
Contact: nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645 COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Menlo Park, California JOB TITLE: Staff/Principal Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek an entrepreneurial zealot who can change the world with his/her vision and relentless executioners drive. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level designer with strong skills and experience in UI architecture and design. The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. Qualifications : QUALIFICATIONS: * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Senior Visual Designer/FTE/Mountain View, California
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Senior Visual Designer JOB DURATION: FTE Contact: nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645 JOB DESCRIPTION: Help us shape the look and feel for the next generation of Intuit's small business and personal finance applications. We seek an experienced Staff Visual Designer with superior visual design skills and experience defining design direction across a family of products. Successful candidate will be well trained or experienced in end-to-end visual design, illustrate an ability to apply strategic thinking and business goals to all design work, possess a keen and quick understanding of design patterns and visual trends, and will be known for high-level and out-of-the-box thinking. Candidate will have worked as a hands-on UX design practitioner, will have kept his or her hands-on design skills sharp and up-to-date, is known for working well with product management, development, and design teams, and will have been responsible for developing beautiful visual styles and applications Ideal candidate will: * Be capable of defining and implementing design vision, end-to-end solutions, UX standards * Illustrate drive for ease of use and simplicity despite complexity of web applications * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools to new platforms and devices * Collaborate with UX teams and product development partners, compare and contrast various design solutions and approaches while taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Illustrate experience in conceptual and creative development and in hands-on execution * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, negotiator, collaborator * Illustrate previous effective partnership with Interaction Design, User Research, Engineering and Product Management Qualifications: * Four-year visual design, industrial design, or related degree * Post-graduate design degree a plus * 4+ years of user interface design experience with consumer applications, especially rich web apps/sites. Experience designing client-based and/or mobile applications a plus * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites * Knowledge of platform specific user interface guidelines and visual design patterns * Experience with web applications required; familiarity with mobile technologies a plus * Superior creativity and an eye towards perfection of visual design * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Principal/Staff Visual Interaction Designer/FTE/Mountain View, California
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Principal/Staff Visual Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE Contact: nancy Falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] iPhone: 650/336.3645 JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit's Small Business QuickBooks Connected Group is looking for a strong interaction designer to help build new solutions for Intuit's existing desktop and online offerings. Candidate will create designs that delight our customers, by solving important customer problems, being easy and efficient to use, and delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. Primary responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver user experience solutions that focus on user needs and business goals. Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications. * Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs. * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities. * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends and passion for learning. * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members. * Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you. * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community. Qualifications : * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 7+ years of user interface design experience with consumer applications, both desktop and rich web apps/sites. * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites and desktop products * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Experience working within Agile process * Expertise with design tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Experience with financial applications preferred. * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Knowledge of Rich Internet Applications and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions * Hands-on knowledge of Ajax, Flash, DHTML, CSS, scripting, and various other technologies a plus * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] :: job :: staff interaction designer/mountain view, ca/fte/intuit
We plan to interview and hire immediately JOB TITLE: Principal/Staff Interaction Designer (Flash, Flex, RIA) JOB DURATION: FTE LOCATION: Mountain View, California Contact: me (nancy falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) iPhone: 650/336.3645 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek an entrepreneurial zealot who can change the world with his/her vision and relentless executioners drive. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. POSITION SUMMARY: Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for a high-level designer with strong skills and experience in UI architecture and design. The ideal candidate will work on a cross functional team while driving the design process for our online banking applications. The ideal candidate will also be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. * Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce output that delights users. * Turn ideas into amazing design. * Be both creative and pragmatic. * Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, peer designers, and others; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors. Qualifications : QUALIFICATIONS: * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools is preferred * Knowledge of or experience in the Financial Services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] :: job :: staff user researcher/mountain view, ca/fte/intuit
We plan to interview and hire immediately JOB TITLE: Principal/Staff User Researcher JOB DURATION: FTE Location: Mountain View, California Contact: me (nancy falkenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) iPhone: 650/336.3645 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/4b8/462 JOB DESCRIPTION: Come lead the next revolution from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Quicken. A new team within Intuit has been chartered to re-invent and re-imagine the Online Banking experience offered by Financial Institutions. It's a tall task, with the very highest expectations. So we seek an entrepreneurial zealot who can change the world with his/her vision and relentless executioners drive. He/she has demonstrated a deep understanding of customer needs and turning that insight into one or more online products to meet those needs, and the ability to knock down barriers in order to "make it happen". Digital Insight, an Intuit company (NASDAQ: INTU), headquartered in Calabasas, CA, is the leading online banking provider to over 1700 banks and credit unions nationwide. Intuit's Financial Institutions Division, Digital Insight, is looking for an accomplished, Experience Design Researcher. This high-level XD Researcher, through close collaboration with customers, will guide offering teams to conceive of and shape products and services that delight our users. The XD Researcher's goal is to inform and inspire teams, by virtue of their research expertise, to help make the overall user experience as easy, intuitive and pleasant as possible. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: The ideal candidate will be well versed in a number of research methodologies, be capable of creating long term research plans & protocols, be able to work with Design and Marketing to gather customer feedback, and make design recommendations that meet Intuit's high ease of use standards. The XD Researcher provides a continuous cycle of learning from the problem identification phase, through the implementation and execution phases, to market launch and beyond. Their learnings also help to guide the strategy and designs for upcoming releases and new growth areas. Qualifications : QUALIFICATIONS: * Deep experience with multiple research methodologies * Strong leadership qualities that enable you to lead cross-functional teams when needed * Able to drive improvements across multiple, complex products that meet ease of use, delight and business metrics * Able to analyze and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information and present the results to the stakeholders * Capable of delivering video highlight supported debrief reports that include prioritized recommendations * Experience with using storyboards, wireframes, rough screen shots or other images for proof of concept exercises or to communicate potential solutions to product/feature problems * Strong communication skills both verbal and written * Willing to teach best standards to larger XD community at Intuit SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES: * Five+ years ethnography, usability, user research professional/corporate work * Strong understanding and practice of the fundamentals of social research and ethnography * Expert knowledge in usability engineering and field study methodologies * Proven laboratory, interview, and observation skills * Strong leadership and communication skills * Strong project management skills * Strong collaboration and organization skills * Strong video capture and editing, familiarity with Morae a plus * Advanced degree or equivalent in HCI, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Usability Engineering, Anthropology, or related field * Proficiency in design and prototyping tools * Experience in the financial services industry a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] :job:: Visual Web Designer/Senior Web Developer::Calabasas/Woodland Hills, California::FTE(intuit)
Location: Calabasas / Woodland Hills, California Contact: me (nancy falkenburg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We are looking to interview and hire immediately skills: Ajax, Dynamic Content generation (ATG Dynamo), HTML (hand coding) We are currently seeking a talented Web Developer to join IMS, Intuit's fastest growing business unit. The IMS Division of Intuit is delivering payment services, some of which are bundled with QuickBooks® software (www.quickbooksmerchantservice.com), and offered to small and medium-sized businesses all over the country. The Web developer is an important member of our team and an active contributor to multiple projects that leverage business, Web and design expertise. We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is passionate about the Web. Responsibilities include setting up marketing campaigns, building and modifying Web templates utilizing the ATG Dynamo Platform as well as enhancing and updating multiple corporate Websites. The Web developer will be a key contributor to optimizing the end-to-end Web experience for our customers and will participate in launching a new site and migration to the ATG platform. Additional responsibilities include usability testing, QA and site optimization. Qualifications: *B.S./B.A degree in an appropriate technology or business-related field *2-4 years of progressive experience with a minimum of 2 years developing for the web *Expert hands-on knowledge of HTTP/ HTML/ DHTML/ DOM/ XML/ XSLT/ CSS/ XHTML/ JHTML/ JavaScript, Photoshop and other web development/production tools. Please note we are looking for HTML hand coding *Extensive knowledge of current and emerging web technologies *Experience with ATG Dynamo or dynamic content generation tools required *Experience with AJAX/ SharePoint Designer/ Visual Studio, Offermatica a plus *Interest in the customer experience with an understanding of user research, metrics and extensive Web processes *Interest in web search experience, social search, and Web content management systems *Demonstrated successful management of Web projects on an aggressive timeline *Ability to multitask and manage multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment *Excellent communication, teamwork and people skills 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Senior Visual Designer/Tucson, Arizona/FTE (intuit)
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Tucson, Arizona JOB TITLE: Senior Visual Designer JOB DURATION: FTE (We are looking to hire immediately) Contact: me (nancy falkenburg: iPhone 650/336.3645) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JOB DESCRIPTION: Scope: The Small Business Group Customer Care Visual Designer serves to conceptualize and to create a positive customer support experience through the presentation of our web based application. The goal is to make customer interactions, appealing, functional, engaging, effective, and visually unified as possible via a visual language (using typography, photography, iconography, and a sense for composition and proportions) and infusing it with our Intuit brand to create a positive emotional connection between the customer and Intuit. Visual designers thrive at working collaboratively and in a fast-paced environment with interaction designers, prototypers, researchers and product managers to "get a concept right early" and be able to collaborate with marketing on branding to provide visual and interaction continuity across shop, buy and use experience. A Visual designer creates multiple visual concepts, tangible manifestations of experiences (such as prototypes), and establishes / maintains visual libraries for the larger teams to use. The visual designer is also responsible for seeing the designs through the implementation and execution phases to ensure the final customer journey solution still meets/exceeds expectations. Once in production, the visual designer is involved in a continuous cycle of learning from customers, providing the learning back into strategy and designs for upcoming releases and new growth ideas. Typical Deliverables: * Producing appealing and engaging visual design within the web support site * Generation of multiple concepts that fulfill project goals and requirements * Developing design prototypes and written user interface specifications * Working cross-functionally with web team, managers, and senior leadership to define application enhancements and scope release cycles * Working with Web Engineering and Development teams and QA to ensure implementation and testing of user interface designs * Developing and managing multiple project plans and deadlines. Coordinating and scheduling Small Business Group Web Support and partner deliverables. Tracking and reporting out on the project status * Contribute to usability studies * Researching and sharing the latest in design and industry trends, ongoing benchmarking Qualifications : Team/Leadership Skills: * Proven experience collaborating and sharing their point of view and expertise with usability, writers, development and leadership team. * Excellent presentation, verbal and written skills are required. * Solid understanding of the business environment and the value of design and the brand within the business context * Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects and deliverables * Proven ability to meet aggressive deadlines * Ability to understand a client's business and communication's goals and translate them into unique creative solutions Technical/Functional Skills: * Should demonstrate a curiosity about contemporary design culture * Well rounded design skills and styles, and demonstrate a solid foundation of design fundamentals. Must keep abreast of visual design tools and trends and be able to use them as appropriate * Demonstrate excellent typography skill, a good understanding of the systems and an eye for detail * Development, execution, and analysis of rapid prototyping, continual cycle of testing, learning and applying. * Graphic Design Prototyping tools across a variety of media (print, motion, web) including Illustrator, Flash, etc. * Knowledge of HTML , understanding of how comps translate to code * Solid understanding of the practical benefits and limitations of Internet Technologies (Shockwave, Java, etc.) * Qualifications/Required Education and Experience: * BA/MFA in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or Equivalent * 5+ yrs of visual or user interface design experience with web applications and sites * Must provide a portfolio of work samples CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: senior IxD/san diego, california(Intuit) / FTE
contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORIGINAL POSTING: June 6th, 2008 COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: San Diego, California JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer (65952) JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit is looking for a strong designer with skills and experience in UI architecture and interaction design to help design applications in our Small Business Tax Group. The right candidate will be able to turn ideas into delightful application designs that solve important customers. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation Responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals. * Deliver all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications. * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Leverage rapid prototyping and frequent customer interactions to inform design directions. * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities. * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends. * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members. * Use leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you. * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Actively participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community. Qualifications : * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 8 yrs experience in software industry or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Expertise with Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other rich internet application technologies. * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: sr. ui designer/sr. interaction designer/waltham, ma (Intuit) / FTE
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Waltham, MA JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit's electronic payments division (IMS -Intuit Merchant Solutions), is looking for a strong user interaction designer to help build new solutions for Intuit's next generation and existing products. Candidate will turn ideas into amazing designs that delight our customers, by solving important customer problems end-to-end, being easy and efficient to use, and delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. Responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals. Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications. * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Leverage rapid prototyping and frequent customer interactions to inform design directions. * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities. * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends. * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members. * Use leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you. * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community. Qualifications: * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Expertise with Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other rich internet application technologies. * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: group manager, user experience design/mountain view, california(Intuit) / FTE
contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Group Manager, User Experience Design JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: You will: * Lead a team of Experience Design managers, designers, and researchers to define Shop, Buy and Use experiences that delight our customers * Work with the team and key stakeholders to understand and promulgate a strong vision for user experience * Collaborate across functional areas and segments to plan innovative changes to experience design methodologies, strategy, development processes, and organizational capabilities/structure * Provide design direction to ensure delivery of high quality user experiences * Drive the integration of user-centered research and design processes into the product development process * Prioritize Experience Research and Design work to align with the Small Business division's goals and objectives for the business you support * Oversee the work of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and User Research across multiple projects * Attract, grow and retain a world class team of experience design managers, designers, and researchers * Manage all run-the-business aspects of the team (budgets, personnel, reporting) * Foster user experience collaboration across the Small Business Ecosystem and the Intuit XD Community on shared UI frameworks, design patterns, and cross-offering experiences * Stay abreast of external research, standards, inventions, and trends for potential opportunities Qualifications : Required Qualifications: * Master's or PhD in design, the social sciences, HCI or related fields, or related experience * Minimum 7 years experience managing design teams that deliver exceptional user experiences in new and existing offerings * At least 10 years of experience as a practicing visual designer, interaction designer, or other design-related role * Proven track record of leading user experience organizations to be highly influential, effective, and strategic within a matrixed structure * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Proven experience delivering products and services to the market * Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people Please submit resume and work samples. CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: sr. ui prototyper/mountain view, california(Intuit) / FTE
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior UI Prototyper JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: We have an exceptional opportunity for a designer/prototyper to work with a team developing next generation products within the Small Business Division at Intuit. We are looking for someone who is collaborative and who can not only think in innovative ways about the changing nature of starting and running small businesses, but who can translate these ideas into compelling prototypes that can serve as objects of analysis and be tested with people in real-world contexts. Ideal candidate will: -be intrigued with the possibility of designing new tools for helping people create and manage small business -have a solid design background, with an emphasis on interaction design -be able to create rapid "behavioral" prototypes in using a variety of authoring tools -- especially Actionscript and Flex. -be able to serve as a bridge between the user experience design team and the engineering team in terms of defining design principles and standards -be able to communicate his or her ideas clearly and effectively Qualifications : Requirements and Qualifications: -Graduate and/or undergraduate degree in interaction and visual design -Familiarity with basic economic concepts as pertains to small business -Seven or more years total industry experience -Five plus years application product experience with an emphasis on rapid behavioral prototyping. Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products preferred - Knowledge of platform specific user interface guidelines and interaction design patterns - Experience with desktop and/or web applications required; familiarity with mobile technologies a plus - Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: principal, visual design/intuit/mt.view/fte
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Principal, Visual Design JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Help us shape the look and feel for the next generation of Intuit's small business and personal finance applications. We seek an experienced Principal Visual Designer with superior visual design skills and experience defining design direction across a family of products. Successful candidate will be well trained or experienced in end-to-end visual design, illustrate an ability to apply strategic thinking and business goals to all design work, possess a keen and quick understanding of design patterns and visual trends, and will be known for high-level and out-of-the-box thinking. Candidate will have worked as a hands-on UX design practitioner, will have kept his or her hands-on design skills sharp and up-to-date, is known for working well with product management, development, and design teams, and will have been responsible for developing beautiful visual styles and applications Ideal candidate will: * Be capable of defining and implementing design vision, end-to-end solutions, UX standards * Illustrate drive for ease of use and simplicity despite complexity of software/desktop/web applications * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools to new platforms and devices * Collaborate with UX teams and product development partners, compare and contrast various design solutions and approaches while taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Illustrate experience in conceptual and creative development and in hands-on execution * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, negotiator, collaborator, regardless of organizational structure or hierarchy * Illustrate previous effective partnership with Interaction Design, User Research, Engineering, Product Management, and Executive Management * Illustrate powerful and effective leadership and change management prowess Qualifications : * Four-year visual design, industrial design, or related degree * Post-graduate design degree preferred * Seven or more years total industry experience * Five plus years application product experience. Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning products preferred * Knowledge of platform specific user interface guidelines and visual design patterns * Experience with desktop and/or web applications required; familiarity with mobile technologies a plus * Superior creativity and an eye towards perfection of visual design * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job:: Senior UI Prototyper/ Mountain View, California(Intuit) / FTE
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior UI Prototyper JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Are you skilled in developing rapid prototypes of user experiences? Can you think conceptually as well as practically about new and better ways that that software can help people in their daily lives. Intuit has an exceptional opportunity for a designer/prototyper to work with a team developing next generation products within the Small Business Division at Intuit. We are looking for someone who is collaborative and who can not only think in innovative ways about the changing nature of starting and running small businesses, but who can translate these ideas into compelling prototypes that can serve as objects of analysis and be tested with people in real-world contexts. Ideal candidate will: -be intrigued with the possibility of designing new tools for helping people create and manage small business -have a solid design background, with an emphasis on interaction design -be able to create rapid "behavioral" prototypes in using a variety of authoring tools -- especially Actionscript and Flex. -be able to serve as a bridge between the user experience design team and the engineering team in terms of defining design principles and standards -be able to communicate his or her ideas clearly and effectively Qualifications : Requirements and Qualifications: -Graduate and/or undergraduate degree in interaction and visual design -Familiarity with basic economic concepts as pertains to small business -Seven or more years total industry experience -Five plus years application product experience with an emphasis on rapid behavioral prototyping. Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products preferred - Knowledge of platform specific user interface guidelines and interaction design patterns - Experience with desktop and/or web applications required; familiarity with mobile technologies a plus - Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: Group Manager, User Experience Design/San Francisco bay area (mt. view)/fte/intuit
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Group Manager, User Experience Design (65448) JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do - developing, marketing and supporting products and services that transform the way people and small businesses around the world manage their finances. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The Small Business Experience Design (XD) group is tasked with designing the user experience for the Quicken and QuickBooks family of products and services, both on the desktop and online. Responsibilities: * Lead a team of Experience Design managers, designers, and researchers to define Shop, Buy and Use experiences that delight our customers * Work with the team and key stakeholders to understand and promulgate a strong vision for user experience * Collaborate across functional areas and segments to plan innovative changes to experience design methodologies, strategy, development processes, and organizational capabilities/structure * Provide design direction to ensure delivery of high quality user experiences * Drive the integration of user-centered research and design processes into the product development process * Prioritize Experience Research and Design work to align with the Small Business division's goals and objectives for the business you support * Oversee the work of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and User Research across multiple projects * Attract, grow and retain a world class team of experience design managers, designers, and researchers * Manage all run-the-business aspects of the team (budgets, personnel, reporting) * Foster user experience collaboration across the Small Business Ecosystem and the Intuit XD Community on shared UI frameworks, design patterns, and cross-offering experiences * Stay abreast of external research, standards, inventions, and trends for potential opportunities Qualifications : Required Qualifications: * Master's or PhD in design, the social sciences, HCI or related fields, or related experience * Minimum 7 years experience managing design teams that deliver exceptional user experiences in new and existing offerings * At least 10 years of experience as a practicing visual designer, interaction designer, or other design-related role * Proven track record of leading user experience organizations to be highly influential, effective, and strategic within a matrixed structure * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Proven experience delivering products and services to the market * Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people Please submit resume and work samples. CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] _job: Senior Interaction Designer/Mountain View, California(Intuit)/FTE
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, California JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: We're looking for a strong user interaction designer to help build new solutions for Intuit's next generation and existing products. The right candidate will turn ideas into amazing designs that delight our customers by solving important customer problems, by being easy and efficient to use, and by delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. Responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals. Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications. * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Leverage rapid prototyping and frequent customer interactions to inform design directions. * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities. * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends. * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members. * Use leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you. * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community. Qualifications: * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Expertise with Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other rich internet application technologies. * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] _job: Senior Interaction Designer/San Diego, California(Intuit)/FTE
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: San Diego, California JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer (65819) JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit's flagship product TurboTax is looking for a strong user interaction designer to help build new solutions for Intuit's next generation and existing products. The right candidate will turn ideas into amazing designs that delight our customers, by solving important customer problems end-to-end, being easy and efficient to use, and delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. Responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals. Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications. * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. * Leverage rapid prototyping and frequent customer interactions to inform design directions. * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities. * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends. * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members. * Use leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you. * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community. Qualifications: * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Expertise with Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other rich internet application technologies. * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: manager, user experience design/mountain view, ca/fte/intuit
This is a new position within our Small Business Group. Experience with Web 2.0 and RIA highly desirable: -nancy Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do - developing, marketing and supporting products and services that transform the way people and small businesses around the world manage their finances. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The Small Business Experience Design (XD) group is tasked with designing the user experience for the Quicken and QuickBooks family of products and services. Responsibilities: * Lead a team of Experience Designers and Researchers to define Shop, Buy and Use experiences that delight our customers * Work with the team and key stakeholders to understand and promulgate a strong vision for user experience * Collaborate across functional areas and segments to plan innovative changes to experience design methodologies, strategy, development processes, and organizational capabilities/structure * Provide design direction to ensure delivery of high quality user experiences * Drive the integration of user-centered research and design processes into the product development process * Prioritize Experience Research and Design work to align with the Small Business division's goals and objectives for the business you support * Oversee the work of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and User Research across multiple projects * Attract, grow and retain a world class team of experience designers and researchers * Manage all run-the-business aspects of the team (budgets, personnel, reporting) * Foster user experience collaboration across the Small Business Ecosystem and the Intuit XD Community on shared UI frameworks, design patterns, and cross-offering experiences * Stay abreast of external research, standards, inventions, and trends for potential opportunities Qualifications : * Master's or PhD in design, the social sciences, HCI or related fields, or related experience * Minimum 5 years experience managing design teams that deliver exceptional user experiences in new and existing offerings * At least 7 years of experience as a practicing visual designer, interaction designer, or other design-related role * Proven track record of leading user experience organizations to be highly influential, effective, and strategic within a matrixed structure * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Proven experience delivering products and services to the market * Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: Design Leader(principal level UID)/san francisco bay area/fte/intuit
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Design Leader - Principal UID JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: The hands-on Design Leader is responsible for inspiring and leading the Intuit visual/interaction design community, helping guide the company-wide Design for Delight initiative, and working with teams to uncover, document, and strategically apply world-class design practices. This individual will work with leaders across Intuit in design, user research, product management, and other disciplines to help establish Intuit as an inspiring, respected, savvy, effective leader in delivering great customer experiences. This leader will have a proven track record in setting a vision, inspiring others to get behind the vision, and ultimately influencing the creation of software/web experiences that are known for their delight and ease of use. The individual will have 10+ years of demonstrated results as a practitioner/teacher of design. He/she will bring deep knowledge of innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, and customer research and will effectively teach and coach others in these methods. In addition, this leader will have a broad network and excellent reputation with influential industry and academia contacts; and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a variety of executive-level business leaders, technology leaders, Product Managers and other key people. All Intuit leaders bring functional/technical skills, but equally important they lead through personal values consistent with Intuit's corporate values. The chosen Design Leader will have strong leadership and change management skills, including a hands-on, non-bureaucratic leadership style; open and frequent communications at all levels of the organization; the ability to both drive and collaborate across multiple business and functional units, and a genuine sensitivity to the development needs of the organization. Experience/Education: * 10+ years of significant track record in defining and delivering great user experiences in software products and services to a large number of customers * Demonstrated ability to paint a vision for design and deliver on it, and success in driving change in a matrixed environment * Master's or PhD in design, HCI or related fields; or equivalent experience * Excellent command of: user experience methods, design principles, problem-framing skills, verbal and written communication skills * Ability to masterfully articulate/define/integrate the role of design * Exemplary ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership, and to "raise the bar" continually as an effective leader of positive change * Strong track-record of developing and hiring great people * Experience, comfort and track-record in dealing at all levels in a large organization, and in leading both through influence and hands-on ownership Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: senior ui designer/San Francisco bay area (mt. view)/fte/intuit
Our Mountain View campus has a job opening for a senior user interface designer. If you might be interested in exploring this opportunity with us, please forward your portfolio/work samples to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPANY NAME: Intuit COMPANY URL: http://www.intuit.com JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior User Interface designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit's Small Business Division is looking for a strong designer with skills and experience in UI architecture and interaction design to help design online applications in our payroll organization. Candidates will be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation *Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. *Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce jaw dropping work. *Turn ideas into amazing design. *Be both creative and pragmatic. *Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy *Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, UI text writers, peer designers, and art directors; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: senior ui designer/san diego, california/fte/intuit
Our San Diego site has a job opening for a senior user interface designer. If you might be interested in exploring this opportunity with us, please forward your portfolio/work samples to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPANY NAME: Intuit COMPANY URL: http://www.intuit.com JOB LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CA JOB TITLE: SENIOR USER INTERFACE DESIGNER JOB DURATION: Full Time JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit is looking for a Senior UI Designer to join our growing team. You will play a key role in delighting customers. You will produce innovative and easy to use design solutions for customers while satisfying business goals. Responsibilities - Create innovative user experiences for existing and new product offerings that are grounded in an understanding of customers. - Work with a cross functional team on every stage of design and development from concept to completion. - Be imaginative and also detailed oriented. - Be a leader in creating task analyses, storyboards, user interaction models, information architecture, wire frames, prototypes, design briefs, specs and guidelines. - Influence team members and leaders to always seek solutions that are customer focused. - Mentor less experienced team members Qualifications: - B.F.A. in Design or a BA/BS in HCI, Cognitive Science, or related. Master's preferred. - Five (5) to seven (7) years of industry experience shipping software products or web services and a strong portfolio. - Experience in design phases of the software development life cycle. - Skilled in taking solutions from hand sketches and storyboards to interactive Flash, HTML, or Director prototypes. - Experience developing and communicating UI design guidelines, templates, and standards. - Proven effectiveness working within cross-functional teams to include user research, product management, engineering, and marketing. - Having designed user experiences for consumer products for Fortune 100 companies is a plus. CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: Senior User Interface designer/Mountain View, California/Fulltime-Intuit
JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior User Interface designer (64540) JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit's Small Business Division is looking for a strong designer with skills and experience in UI architecture and interaction design to help design online applications in our payroll organization. Candidates will be able to think in terms of end-to-end UI design, apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, focus on usability and understand aesthetic values. Candidate will work as a hands-on UI designer and will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to working with development on implementation *Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the system. *Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. Work with other designers, researchers, management, and your group to produce jaw dropping work. *Turn ideas into amazing design. *Be both creative and pragmatic. *Enjoy generating and evangelizing team and product vision and have proven customer affinity and user empathy *Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Learn new technology quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare and contrast various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account * Prioritize among competing assignments, features, user tasks and needs * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Exhibit ability to collaborate with user researchers, UI text writers, peer designers, and art directors; illustrate productive collaboration with other corporate peers and sponsors Qualifications : * Five-years plus product/interaction design, industrial design, or graphic design degree * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience * Eight or more years total industry experience (corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products preferred. * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Proficient in prototyping and mock up skills to convey ideas and concepts * Expertise in Adobe or other design software [Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.] * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner for web software. * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools always a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job/ Quicken 2009 Interaction Design Contractor l Intuit l CONTRACT l Mountain View, CA
Quicken 2009 is planning a major redesign of the product, and we are looking for a senior user interaction designer for 6-9 month, 40hrs/week. Candidates must primarily be true interaction designers and not just visual or graphic designers. A focus on customer driven development is a plus. Also any experience with desktop applications, consumer applications, and financial applications a plus. Please only candidates with 4+ years of interaction design experience should apply. Please send resumes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job/ Senior User Interface Designer l Intuit l FTE l San Diego, CA
Intuit is looking for a Senior UI Designer to join our growing team. You will play a key role in delighting customers. You will produce innovative and easy to use design solutions for customers while satisfying business goals. Responsibilities - Create innovative user experiences for existing and new product offerings that are grounded in an understanding of customers. - Work with a cross functional team on every stage of design and development from concept to completion. - Be imaginative and also detailed oriented. - Be a leader in creating task analyses, storyboards, user interaction models, information architecture, wire frames, prototypes, design briefs, specs and guidelines. - Influence team members and leaders to always seek solutions that are customer focused. - Mentor less experienced team members Qualifications : - B.F.A. in Design or a BA/BS in HCI, Cognitive Science, or related. Master's preferred. - Five (5) to seven (7) years of industry experience shipping software products or web services and a strong portfolio. - Experience in design phases of the software development life cycle. - Skilled in taking solutions from hand sketches and storyboards to interactive Flash, HTML, or Director prototypes. - Experience developing and communicating UI design guidelines, templates, and standards. - Proven effectiveness working within cross-functional teams to include user research, product management, engineering, and marketing. - Having designed user experiences for consumer products for Fortune 100 companies is a plus. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job/Application Interface Design Consultant l Intuit l FTE l Mountain View, CA
Intuit isn't just another place to work. It's a company made up of smart, motivated people with a passion for what they do - developing, marketing and supporting products and services that transform the way people and small businesses around the world manage their finances. We take pride in our dedication to the customers who use our products and services every day. Intuit offers some of the best rewards in the industry. We don't think you'll find another employer more dedicated to its employees' success. The Small Business Division's Experience Design group is tasked with designing the user experience for the Quicken and QuickBooks family of products and services. Candidate will turn ideas into amazing designs that delight our customers, by solving important customer problems end-to-end, being easy and efficient to use, and delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. Primary Responsibilities & Duties: * Provide application interface designs and design consulting on product teams from concept development through delivery. * Define and design new products, as well as re-work of current desktop and Internet-based offerings. * Aid in concept development through focus groups, user interviews, surveys and observational studies. * Work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team, including members of the User Research, Engineering, Marketing, Product Support, QA, and Documentation teams. * Manage the design process, drive decisions, create schedules, track issues. * Deliver prototypes, mock-ups, and design specifications for your designs. * Perform design reviews and partner with User Research in usability testing during various phases of the product development to evaluate and iterate the designs. * Collaborate with designers and product developers to maintain consistent look and feel across the product lines. * Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you. * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends. * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community. Required Education & Experience: * Four-year product/interaction design, industrial design, human factors, or related degree * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, or mobile applications * Strong knowledge of interface design processes and methodology in creating desktop and internet applications. * Strong project and people management skills and be able to function as project leader as well as individual contributor * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop or Illustrator * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, etc.) * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. * Ajax, Flash, DHTML, scripting, and various other technologies a plus Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job/ Senior User Interface Designer/Prototyper l Intuit l FTE l Mountain View, CA
Are you skilled in developing rapid prototypes of user experiences? Can you think conceptually as well as practically about new and better ways that that software can help people in their daily lives. Intuit has an exceptional opportunity for a designer/prototyper to work with a team developing next generation products within the Small Business Division at Intuit. We are looking for someone is collaborative and who can not only think in innovative ways about the changing nature of starting and running small businesses, but who can translate these ideas into compelling prototypes that can serve as objects of analysis and be tested with people in real-world contexts. Ideal candidate will: -be intrigued with the possibility of designing new tools for helping people create and manage small business -have a solid design background, with an emphasis on interaction design -be able to create rapid "behavioral" prototypes in using a variety of authoring tools -- especially Actionscript and Flex. -be able to serve as a bridge between the user experience design team and the engineering team in terms of defining design principles and standards -be able to communicate his or her ideas clearly and effectively Qualifications : Requirements and Qualifications: -Graduate and/or undergraduate degree in interaction and visual design -Familiarity with basic economic concepts as pertains to small business -Seven or more years total industry experience -Five plus years application product experience with an emphasis on rapid behavioral prototyping. Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products preferred - Knowledge of platform specific user interface guidelines and interaction design patterns - Experience with desktop and/or web applications required; familiarity with mobile technologies a plus - Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job/ sr.IxD'er l Intuit l FTE l Mountain View, CA
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit's Small Business Division (the makers of Quicken and QuickBooks software) is looking for a strong interaction designer to help build new solutions for Intuit's next generation and existing products. Candidate will turn ideas into amazing designs that delight our customers, by solving important customer problems end-to-end, being easy and efficient to use, and delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. Primary responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals. Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members * Use faciliative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community Qualifications : * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Ajax, Flash, DHTML, scripting, and various other technologies a plus * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] job: senior interaction designer-FTE-MountainView, California-Intuit
JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE Intuit is looking for a strong interaction designer to help build and enhance solutions for next generation business tools on the web. Your responsibilities include: * Design and focus on end to end experiences, influencing teams, and making trade offs * Apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work * Work across multiple teams and segments to build design architecture * Develop vision concepts * Drive research and user testing * Understanding and application of aesthetic values * Identify and take advantage of new web technologies * Be responsible for delivering all aspects of design from concept to implementation details You will: Produce great design work that shines with simplicity despite complexity of the systems. Drive and define the architecture and design language working with multiple teams for consistency across products. Define implementation criteria, guidelines, and specs. Work with other designers, researchers, management, and marketing to produce jaw dropping work. Turn ideas into dynamic design. Have a love for solving problems and delivering great work to every customer. * Five-years plus of product/interaction design experience * Degree in Design, Design related field, or equivalent experience. * Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Expertise in Adobe and/or other design software * Proficient in web prototyping skills to convey ideas and concepts. * Understanding of DHTML, scripting, and web technologies * Experience in Flash, Flex, WPF, or dynamic front end software tools always a plus CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job: senior interaction designer-CONTRACT-Mountain View, California-Intuit
JOB LOCATION: Mountain View, CA JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: CONTRACT (6 - 9 months) JOB DESCRIPTION: Primary responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals. Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members * Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community Qualifications : * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, or mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Ajax, Flash, DHTML, scripting, and various other technologies a plus * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job: senior interaction designer-FTE-San Diego, California-Intuit
JOB LOCATION: San Diego, CA JOB TITLE: Senior Interaction Designer JOB DURATION: FTE JOB DESCRIPTION: Intuit is looking for a Senior UI Designer to join our growing team. You will play a key role in delighting customers. You will produce innovative and easy to use design solutions for customers while satisfying business goals. Responsibilities - Create innovative user experiences for existing and new product offerings that are grounded in an understanding of customers. - Work with a cross functional team on every stage of design and development from concept to completion. - Be imaginative and also detailed oriented. - Be a leader in creating task analyses, storyboards, user interaction models, information architecture, wire frames, prototypes, design briefs, specs and guidelines. - Influence team members and leaders to always seek solutions that are customer focused. - Mentor less experienced team members Qualifications : - B.F.A. in Design or a BA/BS in HCI, Cognitive Science, or related. Master's preferred. - Five (5) to seven (7) years of industry experience shipping software products or web services and a strong portfolio. - Experience in design phases of the software development life cycle. - Skilled in taking solutions from hand sketches and storyboards to interactive Flash, HTML, or Director prototypes. - Experience developing and communicating UI design guidelines, templates, and standards. - Proven effectiveness working within cross-functional teams to include user research, product management, engineering, and marketing. - Having designed user experiences for consumer products for Fortune 100 companies is a plus. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] job: principal user interface designer/interaction designer/San Diego, California/FTE
COMPANY NAME: Intuit JOB LOCATION: San Diego, CA JOB TITLE: principal user interface designer/interaction designer JOB DURATION: Full Time JOB DESCRIPTION: The User interface / User-interaction Designer role is critical to the success of the Customer Experience development team. The Investments/Schedule C team needs to create and fill this role in order to deliver world-class, amazing designs that are easy to use, inspire confidence, and deliver unexpected WOW. Intuit is seeking a strong user interface designer for its TurboTax Customer Experience development team to help build new solutions for Intuit's TurboTax software. Candidate will turn ideas into amazing designs that delight our customers, by solving important customer problems end-to-end, being easy and efficient to use, and delivering emotional engagement and unexpected wow. The Customer Experience development team is responsible for constructing the user interface of Intuit's leading tax preparation software, TurboTax, and other products. The team ensures the ease of software use and accurate preparation of individual tax returns by building intuitive user interfaces and screen flows that are easy to follow, inspire confidence, and deliver unexpected wow. Primary Responsibilities * Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals Directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications * Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite complexity of the system. Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs * Use judgment to suggest solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities * Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends * Collaborate effectively with designers, researchers, tax analysts, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members * Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you * Participate in and foster the Intuit Experience Design Community Qualifications: * Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field * 5+ years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites, desktop, and/or (or?) mobile applications * Experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products preferred * Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research * Expertise with design software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator * Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, etc) * Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others * Ajax, Flash, DHTML, scripting, and various other technologies a plus * Strong portfolio available for viewing CONTACT INFORMATION: Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ... http://beta.ixda.org
