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ITHAKA is searching for a User Experience Lead to join their User Experience Design (UXD) group and work closely with designers, business stakeholders, end users, and technical staff to create quality user experiences for a major web-based project.
The User Experience Lead will report directly to the User Experience Design Manager in the Ann Arbor, MI office. This is a full-time contract position with an anticipated end date of December 31, 2010.
ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technology to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA provides innovative services that benefit higher education including JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R. ITHAKA is headquartered in New York, NY with additional offices in Ann Arbor, MI and Princeton, NJ.
The User Experience Lead’s responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to the following:
Qualified candidates should submit a resume, cover letter and salary requirements to: .
We will consider each response carefully, but only contact those individuals we feel are most qualified for the position. ITHAKA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Lead user experience engineer to significantly contribute to the ideation and creation of highly usable and useful healthcare applications. These web-based solutions serve the hospital and payer markets and involve clinical workflow, search/Information display, reporting, visual information display, analytics, and complex user interaction and include mobile (Palm, Windows, Blackberry, iPhone, and Android) platforms. The UX engineer must apply appropriate methodologies and techniques in user research, information architecture, interaction design, visual information design, and prototyping to produce usable and effective products. This associate advocates and represents the customer in business strategy, conceptualization, and development phases of a project. He/she collects and interprets complex customer and user research findings and designs effective and elegant user experiences. He/she also influences the product development process to effectively integrate user-centered design.
Develop a deep understanding of customers’ business and individual needs by planning and executing user and ethnographic research activities including contextual inquiries, interviews, focus groups, heuristic reviews, surveys, etc. Develops conceptual models and user personas. Work with customers and other subject matter experts to identify and validate business requirements and translate those into highly useful and usable designs. Work with developers, product managers, business analysts, and QA, to create visually appealing, highly usable, and intuitive web interfaces in an Agile environment. Communicate your ideas using prototypes, wireframes, interactive mockups. Define and document user interface design specifications that include system process flows and business logic resulting from user interactions. Articulate the pros and cons of designs and support choices with clear, detailed evidence and rationale for decisions. Champion user needs while understanding the balance of user experience, business case, technical constraints, and time-to-release, and make tradeoffs when appropriate. Conduct usability testing and validation.
Some travel is required (10%) to visit customer sites, tradeshow/conferences, and development teams.
Master’s degree in Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Usability Engineering or related field.
10 years related experience in a mature software development organization. Thorough knowledge and significant experience with user-centered design practices. Expertise in user research methodologies, application of visual information design techniques, and an understanding of 508 and I18N requirements. Experience with prototyping tools (e.g., Visio, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, HTML, CSS). Understanding of the technical possibilities and limitations of HTML, CSS, Ajax, Javascript, and Flash. Appreciation and commitment to incorporate high level of visual design Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Excellent communication and presentation skills, and ability to consistently deliver on schedule. Ability to work independently, work on multiple projects at once, and handle shifting priorities. Self-starter with strong project management skills.
Experience with Agile software development practices. Healthcare domain experience (clinical workflow, hospital management/operations, and/or healthplan analytical applications). Mobile user interface design experience. Formal visual design training.
CPHF/CPE a plus.
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American Heart Association
Candidate will have 3+ years experience as an information architect with strong experience in:
Prefer a member of MIAA or organizations / certifications.
Client is moving to a new website and looking to bring in someone to help with content management and creation of a persona-based selling layout of content.
If interested, please contact:
Job Description:
Develop user interface wireframe specifications, perform software usability evaluations, and create written recommendations. Support/perform usability tests.
Skills Required:
6+ years overall IT experience that includes:
3+ years experience with wireframe specifications, software usability evaluations.
2+ years focus group facilitation.
2+ years graphic design, CSS, XHTML. 2+ years Web development experience (html/cgi/scripting.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Preferred
- Masters Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors/Ergonomics
Skills Preferred:
Applicants should demonstrate a passion for usability and be familiar with multiple authors/principles on the subject.
Education Required:
Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors/Ergonomics
Additional Information :
Familiarity with project plans We are looking for degreed usability specialist with formal usability experience. We are not looking for web designers who have applied usability as part of their web design work.
If interested, send resume and contact:
Susan Deutsch
Technical Recruiter
Fast Switch, Ltd. Is a 13-year-old IT Consulting company with offices in Detroit, MI and Columbus, OH and doing business in almost half the states in the union. We’re a financially strong, privately-held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. You are our most important asset!
We’ve differentiated ourselves by being creative, flexible, and fast. Throw out everything you’ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We’re different. Our consultants and clients tell us so, and it’s our great people who make the difference! We do unique things, and we do them for Fortune 10 companies, Inc. 500 companies, and technology start-ups. We also have a strong belief in giving back to the communities we serve.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefits options you can choose just the benefits that you need or want, options include:
• Medical and Dental (Fast Switch pays 85% of premium)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
• Training
• Education Reimbursement
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
We have won the Columbus Business First “Fast 50” award 4 times in the last 5 years because of our strong growth which translates into more and better opportunities for our consulting staff members.
If interested, send resume and contact:
Susan Deutsch
Technical Recruiter
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My client in Ann Arbor is the leader in online retail. Arguably, the creator of online retail really! They are seeking a User Experience Group Manager to lead and manage 5 talented IA’s as well as participate in creating UX Designs.
As a manager, you will lead, coach, mentor, participate in sales efforts, be a thought leader and produce initiative deliverables, white papers etc and more.
As a leader of UX, you will lead projects, analyze customers, conduct research, and create strategy and deliverables that execute on that strategy and more.
You have a passion for UX design and experience leading teams as well as being in front of the client and championing the user experience. On a scale of 1-10 in Visio you are an 11, and of course, when you need to go the extra mile to get the job done, it’s a no brainer.
Contact:
Laura Hunter
Vivid Resources
Develop user interface wireframe specifications, perform software usability evaluations, and create written recommendations. Support/perform usability tests.
6+ years overall IT experience that includes:
Applicants should demonstrate a passion for usability and be familiar with multiple authors/principles on the subject.
6+ years overall IT experience that includes:
Applicants should demonstrate a passion for usability and be familiar with multiple authors/principles on the subject.
Masters Degree together with the strong formal usability experience Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors/Ergonomics
In the field of IT, Graphic Designers apply their expertise in the area of User Interface design. Graphic designers for IT combine graphic design and IT skills to create elements of application user interfaces, as well as to fully design, develop, deploy, and maintain web sites and web applications. Designs must be aesthetically and functionally appropriate per the customer’s requests. Designers may design new visual design elements and/or re-design existing elements, including interface, layout, etc. per customer requirements. Designers work with team members to ensure that the graphics and programming aspects are consistent. Designers must be able to work with other team members . project managers, customers, programmers, and Subject Matter Experts throughout the life cycle of the project. IT Graphic Designer tasks also include the following:
Job Description:
Our client, a world leader in the development and design of medical devices with headquarters in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, has retained our firm for recruiting another Human Factors Scientist to a growing team instrumental in developing a “game changing” structural heart device for commercialization in the United States.
This role is for a senior level contributor on an early stage product line with emphasis on consumable product development. We are seeking a creative, classically trained Human Factors Engineer who will be an integral part of the entire product life cycle.
With an emphasis on more mechanically (versus software) oriented product design, you’ll have the opportunity to work across the organization and interventional cardiology community to conduct customer and user needs identification and requirements, development of products for intended use, user and workplace profiles and usage scenarios. Issues relating to FMEA guidelines surrounding
task analysis, user error analysis, usability requirements, specifications and usability testing are all critical components to this role.
Heavy collaboration with mechanical and systems engineering that result in physical models and prototypes and product graphics that provide a clear picture of usability will be utilized directly in clinical study protocols and outcomes analysis in the field.
Great products don’t come from one person – they come from the collaborative generation of designs, then are tested using established HF guidelines and rigor.
Day to day activities relate directly to ideation, usability testing, usability metrics, along with
other standard design oriented HF principles.
This role is not for the academician or researcher who’s emphasis has been on determining efficacy; rather, on the design of life enhancing and life saving critical products for real people.
Requirements for this role include:
Contact:
Claudia J. Samuelson
Recruiter
Samuelson Resource Group, Inc.
Job Description:
Requirements:
3+ yrs overall experience preferred including:
Contact:
Jaime Blossom Benzin
Recruiter
OtterBase, Inc.
www.otterbase.com
Primary responsibilities:
Job objective: You will collaborate with Gale’s product/solutions strategists, as well as a variety of stakeholders, to create a new generation of online products that are more valuable because they are more *necessary*: to solve problems critical to success in school and academic settings, as well as in daily life. These product/solutions may be found on the open web and/or sold into Gale’s traditional library markets but will command funding beyond the traditional budget sources because they exceed expectations in supporting users’ needs.
Detailed description and application information at:
gale.com/careers