Sr. User Interface Design/ Usability Engineer - Dahl Consulting

Date Posted: May 5, 2008
Date Posting Closes: Until filled

Position Type: Direct hire

Summary

Senior User Interface Design / Usability Engineering professional will support the development of AMS Suite of products. This individual will be part of a cross-functional design team and employ a user-centered design methodology to develop new and upgraded designs for electronic hardware, PC/Windows, and browser based host systems. 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

 

·         Work with end-users and product development team members to gain an understanding and help define the user and functional system requirements.

·         Act as a catalyst to bring focus to usability and good interaction design on multiple product development teams composed of engineering and marketing professionals.

·         Conduct competitive benchmarking to determine and recommend best of breed designs.

·         Develop and apply design strategies and guidelines to new and derivative
designs solutions.

·         Conduct task / workflow analyses of existing and emerging user work practices.

·         Conduct heuristic evaluations of systems and designs.

·         Create conceptual/logical design architectures that improve user productivity and satisfaction.

·         Develop and build cross organizational team support for physical design storyboards, wireframes and prototypes.

·         Apply current User Interface Design visualization/development tools such as Visual Basic, Director, Flash, and Photoshop.

·         Plan, conduct, and report  usability tests to validate suitability of proposed designs.

·         Create and maintain user interface design specifications.

·         Coordinate division level usability design activities, direction, development, and deployment of capability with Corporate Center of Excellence.   

 

 

 

Mary Metzer

Dahl Consulting

Recruiter

651-256-7425

 

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Last update: March 15, 2008