Continue reading »]]> Brand new role! Long term, could be temp-to-perm.

Become a “founding member” of a new/expanded group that will be leading the global marketing and communications for this Fortune 500 company!

This leading international employer already as a solid web presence but is looking to make it more responsive and in tune with market needs. You will create the architecture for all the e-products of the website, workflows, mental models, etc.

Product offerings will include: website development, tools, calculators, mobile – a full array of UX offerings!

The ideal candidate will have:

The ability to design:
Information Architecture
Process Work flows
UI Prototypes

Extensive knowledge of:
Accessibility Standards
User Centered Design (UCD)
UCD Best Practices
Mental Models
User Scenarios

An understanding of the principals of:
Audience / Purpose / Context (APC)
How APC applies to Personas and Scenarios
Validating Usability findings using Analytics / Metrics UAT Feedback

Continue reading »]]> MarketPro is hiring a User experience designer for a long term contract. This person can work remotely! This person will work on the thought leadership program enhancements and supporting wireframes will be developed by our clients program team. The user experience designe support will focus on creatively bringing the proposed redesign of existing page layouts and/or creation of new page layouts for the site and e-mail campaigns to life. The expected deliverables for user experience design support are:

• High-fidelity comps
• Sliced and optimized image assets for production
• User experience requirements documentation
• User Acceptance Testing of proposed design and UX, prior to deployment and post-deployment

Apply:

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Continue reading »]]> Requisition #: IT44219
Job Title: Lead Web Designer
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
City: Roseland
Employment Status: Full Time
Division: Information Technology

Job Responsibilities:
(Description)

About ADP:

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP), with about $10 billion in revenues and about 570,000 clients, is one of the world’s largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP’s easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine, recreational vehicle, heavy manufacturing, and agricultural vehicle dealers throughout the world.

The Senior Web Designer is charged to create engaging web and interactive content design leveraging corporate standards. The Senior Web Designer will collaborate with Development, Quality Assurance, and Product Strategy to deliver industry leading web designs product designs. The designer needs to leverage deep HR & Benefits domain expertise in order to rapidly work through user experience requirements and come up with User-Centric designs that are both compelling and effiecient in automating transactions. The position will also work closely with Sales and Marketing groups to create interactive content used in sales presentations, trade shows and internal training scenarios. The Senior Web Designer will also work with a team of off shore designers in order to achieve team goals.
Create complelling web designs based on strategic and functional requirements.Consult with business partners, clients, sales, marketing and functional SMEs to detemine the requirements of the web user experience.Work with offshore teams to communicate requirements,coordinate design work and audit work productsCollaborate with centralized UX standards team to understand and apply the overall corporate design direction.Work with individual project teams to communicate corporate and NAS UX strategy.Create interactive materials in support of user education, sales and marketing initiatives.

Qualifications Required
(Experience, Skills, Academic):

- Demonstrable ability to design easy to use software solutions which fulfill business need.
- Apply web design best pactices in the HR & Benefits outsourcing domain.
- Lead effort to extract strategic and functional user experience requirements and create effective web designs.
- Leverage web design tools (e.g. Adobe Illustrator) to creat web visuals.
- Leverage off shore designers to accomplish team goals.

ADP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer; M/F/D/V. ADP believes that diversity leads to strength.

Education: Bachelors
Job Category: Technology
Area of Interest: Web Development

Apply:

http://www.adp-jobs.com/talentcommunity/apply/1723186/?#tracked

Continue reading »]]> Description

The Senior UX Designer will need to be creative, flexible, and must have a proven track record for creating highly impactful design solutions. Candidates must provide a portfolio demonstrating breadth, creativity and proven experience in telling stories, building UI models, generating detailed wire frames, developing prototypes and delivering comprehensive specifications.

 
Responsibilities

• Participate in concept development, design ideation, and detailed specification of visual designs for user interfaces of the future and existing innovations, prototypes, demos and product.
• Successfully communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user centered design process.
• Produce design specifications, storyboards, scenarios, design prototypes. Create visual designs and user Interface design that address business, brand, market, and user requirements, including design and production of screen layouts, color palettes, typography, and interface elements.
• Work with product managers and developers to deliver the final product.
• Create designs and images for PowerPoint presentations, marketing and sales collateral, print, and other miscellaneous projects.

Requirements

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years (post education) related UX design experience in product or agency.
• BA/BS in design or related field, with significant industry experience. MA/MS in interface, graphic, information design a plus but not required.
• An in-depth understanding of HTML, and the capabilities of web browsers is essential.
• Understanding of visual design capabilities, including composition, layout information hierarchy, typography and color.
• Expert level proficiency with common design tools (Illustrator, Photoshop, Blend, After Effects, Flash 3-D modeling, etc)
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in Agile product development preferable
   

Personal Attributes

• Passion for design and ability to effectively share your point of view and expertise with project team members.
• Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Collaborative in driving decision.
• Loves to win; hates to lose.

 Contact:

Vicki Mason – Sr. Technical Recruiter | Sungard Availability Services
2481 Deerwood Dr. | San Ramon, CA 94583
Phone: 408.348.7514 |  Email: Vicki.mason@sungard.com

www.sungardas.com

Continue reading »]]> Overview:

Reporting to the Vice President, the Director of UX will make our software products simple and delightful to use through thoughtful interaction design and exceptional visual design. You will innovate and prototype future experiences.  You will lead the overall philosophy and execution of the Applications Group Design Team.

 Our team objective is to fundamentally change the way people interact with their PC through simple and intuitive applications and seamless connectivity across all of their devices.

 Requirements:

• Deep experience leading UX design of web and mobile – centric consumer applications
• Deep consumer insight, understanding how experiences and products fit with customer lifestyles and their interaction models

·         Must have 8+ year’s experience as key member of a design team participating in the complete software product development lifecycle of a web/mobile software product.

·         Must have 5+ years experience leading large design efforts and coordinating project teams of 3 or more members and budgets in excess of $3M.

·         Must have 8+ years experience in interaction design for web and desktop applications and mobile interfaces.

·         Strong design portfolio in consumer software/web products which compete in the global marketplace

·         Leadership experience inventing, driving and inspiring design.

·         Expert understanding of methodologies for designing easy-to-use interfaces.

·         Ability to interpret user research and develop testable, user-centric designs.

·         Leadership experience with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research

·         Experience leading the relationship with third party design agencies

You will seek out customer insights and determine creative ways to evaluate and test their hypotheses. You will also build awareness through regular demonstrations and communications to executives and critical partners.

 Critical tasks:

·         Deliver the right vision, strategy and experience definitions

·         Deliver solid segmentation and a compelling value proposition

·         Recommend the right new product and technology investments 

·         Creation and delivery of compelling vision for software experience

·         Driving a consumer centric culture across the organization

·         Consensus building across Regions, and adjacent business

·         Managing conflicting priorities between businesses

·         Making investment and resource tradeoffs of limited staff and funding

The base compensation for this position is between $175k and $250k plus a bonus program. We are looking for candidates who live in the Greater Silicon Valley area but will consider candidates in Seattle , Ft. Collins or Houston .

If you are personally interested and meet the requirements above, please send your resume to me a skinnear@mypeakconsulting.com.  If you are not interested but know of a candidate who is qualified, please feel free to share my contact information or provide me with the necessary information and I will contact that person directly.

Apply:

Steve Kinnear  (Peak Consulting )
727-446-8494
skinnear@mypeakconsulting.com

Continue reading »]]> Behavioral Science Associates (BSA) provides Human Factors and Usability engineering expertise for Federal government defense, aviation and private industry projects.

We currently have opportunities for Mid-Level and Senior Human Factors Engineering professionals, preferably with aviation or FAA experience. The candidates may have a BA/BS, MA/MS or Ph.D. level of training. The incumbent for our current need will employ high fidelity simulations to design, conduct and manage human performance studies and supply usability designs and recommendations that will help evolve the next generation of air transportation systems for the national airspace.

General Job Tasks:

• Conducting a literature reviews
• Develop detailed test plans
• Analyses of research questions, develop research studies, analytic methods, study goals, and objectives
• Create scenarios and concepts for use in research studies
• Develop and refine methods, techniques and procedures used for the airspace simulation studies
• Create and maintaining a schedule for the research deliverables
• Perform data collection, analysis, writing reports of research results and the presentation of findings
• Participate in the planning and execution of test activities
• Work with the end-users to define operational impacts, and provide human factors and usability design recommendations for issue resolution
• Review vendor products and designs and provide usability recommendations based on human factors standards, guidelines and best practices.

Behavioral Science Associates offers a competitive salary, benefits, and referral bonuses. Please submit your resume in confidence with “FAA” in the email subject line to Dr. Jay Messina at jay@bscience.com. If you do not wish to apply to these positions, but know a person who might be interested, please forward this information to the individual.

Continue reading »]]> We’re Connected Sports and we build interactive games and applications for live sporting events. Our product line is aimed at multi-platform devices including mobile, web, tablet, and television. As a member of the design team you will be contributing to everything from product concepts to interface design to game play mechanics.

We expect our designers to take ownership of their projects and be able to contribute to the larger conceptual discussions within the team. We work collaboratively and iteratively in a friendly but fast-paced environment.

This is a full-time, in-house position.

Specific responsibilities include:

• concept and design of product interface, game play / game flow mechanics, and overall user experience
• create wireframes and/or visual prototypes
• execution of design and game concepts polished to the pixel

Specific Skills

Requirements:

• we are looking for passionate designers who can push themselves to grow and learn with us
• knowledge of sports is NOT required, but a willingness to learn about them is.
• excellent analytical and problem solving skills that can help generate insight into the product / user experience
• ability to work in a team-centric environment: doesn’t take (or give) design feedback personally, can thrive in an environment where opinions and perspectives are welcome and appreciated
• sense of humor (just kidding)
• high level communication skills
• attention to detailes
• Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Illustrator

Nice-To-Have’s:

• gaming experience or the ability to think in the framework of game mechanics
• ping pong skills (there’s a weekly tournament)
• 3d software (we have a Maker Bot at the office and it would be cool to make stuff with it)
• HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript experience

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Title:	User Experience Architect / UX Architect
Skills:	Information Architect,User Experience Architect,UX Architect
Date:	Jan 05, 2012

   Description:

We are looking for a UX Architect / User Experience Architect / Information Architect for on of our clients in Rahway, NJ. If you are interested in this opportunity, send me your resume at dsingh@comrise.com Title: UX Architect Job Type: Contract Location: Rahway, NJ Job Description: ———————– - Usability evaluation of existing web-based application. - Defining information architecture and navigational structure that is logical and consistent. - Creating and applying design patterns and interaction methodologies consistently across the application - Recommending best practices for web interaction techniques. - Vetting design concepts with stakeholders and development groups. - Partnering with business sponsors, users and developers to build consensus around the User Experience. Required Skills: ———————- - 5+ years of user experience work - Experience working with customers - Experience managing UX engagements - Working knowledge of user research - Degree in Human Factors or Library Science desired Deep Singh | Technical Recruiter dsingh@comrise.com | 732-579-6289 Comrise Technology, Inc. Keywords: UX Architect, User Experience Architect, Information Architect, User Experience, Human Factors, persona,patterns, usability, evaluation, information architecture, navigation, structure, design patterns, design concepts

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Continue reading »]]> Sprocket Staffing is searching for an Information Architect for a long-term contract assignment with one of our premier technology consultants in Red Bank, NJ. This project is for the redesign of a large public facing website.

Responsibilities:
Partner with project team to design highly usable applications Propose the best user-centered design techniques to meet user experience goals within defined schedule and budget limitations Research user needs through interviews, surveys, task analysis, comparative analysis, ethnographic research, and other techniques Document user needs through top tasks, personas, scenarios, and other techniques Employ information architecture methods, techniques and best practices to design high-level structure Iteratively design the user experience through sitemaps, workflows, low-fidelity wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, usability testing, usability walkthroughs, and other techniques Plan, conduct, and analyze usability testing to ensure high usability Prepare documentation to summarize user-centered design techniques and fully and clearly specify the user experience for business and technical stakeholders Translate customer requests and business requirements into user interface specifications and tangible product changes Represent end-user interests in solution process, articulate the user experience risks and priorities Consult with business, technical, and creative teams to meet usability and other project goals Balance user needs and technology with business strategy, branding, and other requirements Provide subject matter expertise for information architecture and user experience design and apply related standards

Required Skills:
5+ years of Information Architecture and/or User Experience Design experience on large websites Ability to interface with stakeholders and end-users to understand and document user needs business needs, create user interface specifications, and create usability test plans Able to balance business requirements, usability goals, corporate design guidelines, technology limitations, and IT ability to implement Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Sufficient stature and ability to drive acceptance of their work Ability to be hands on, as well as see the `big picture` Experience with Axure .

Apply: http://sprocket.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portal&a=details&jobOrderID=838623&ref=indeed

Continue reading »]]> Overview: Our very top tier .com client in NJ/NY, USA is one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in America. They are always striving to improve their business, people, and culture and the experience for our customers. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, the next step is yours. Apply now and join a group of critical thinkers and innovators energized by the passion to explore “what if”.

Things you need to have:
Passion for your craft and 8 years expertise as a top notch UX Designer, owning entire end-to-end process of bringing new functionality to the site: from scoping the project with the business owners to wire-framing/prototyping a proof of concept to creating the interactive elements to shepherding the new functionality live into production. BA/BS or MA/MS in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Human Factors or related field. 2+ years of experience in designing and prototyping for the web; ecommerce experience is preferred, but not required. Knowledge of user-centered design principles coupled with a “don’t make me think” understanding of usability. Strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills; high-fidelity prototyping experience is a plus. Ability to write non-technical specs for programmers Demonstrated ability to manage expectations, meet firm deadlines and thrive in a dynamic work environment. It would be great if you also had: Knowledge of coding/scripting is not necessary, but a good understanding of what HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are capable of bringing to the modern web is desired. Above all else: good intuition and a little quirkiness. What you will be doing: Meet with Marketing and Merchandising stakeholders to define functional solutions for business problems Create wireframes or prototypes as proof of concept Design interaction, look and feel Write non-technical specification for programmers Final-pass QA

For information about TEEMA Consulting Group and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com

Apply:

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