[Sigia-l] 2 full time permanent positions in NYC - Midtown - Financial Services! Interaction Designer and Design Communicator!

Mon Mar 27 17:21:20 EST 2006

ELITE NEW YORK CITY FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM IS LOOKING TO HIRE 2
INDIVIDUALS WITH EXPERTISE IN HUMAN FACTORS AND DESIGN INTERACTION. VERY
STRONG PREFERENCE FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCED IN ALLAN COOPER METHODOLOGY!

Please read the position descriptions below. If interested please
contact me:

Jocelyn Sirkis
Executive Recruiter
jocelyn at silversearchinc.com
215-862-7020

The two positions are: DESIGN COMMUNICATOR and INTERACTION DESIGNER.
They will work as a TEAM!

1. Design Communicator

As our Design Communicator you will play a lead role in helping to
design future applications. You will be responsible for leading the
communication of product form and behavior. In collaboration with your
interaction designer partner, you will conduct stakeholder and user
interviews; define personas, scenarios, and requirements; develop
interaction frameworks; and see the design all the way through to
detailed pixel specifications. You will have primary responsibility for
all design documentation, and for testing the design through scenarios,
looking for inconsistencies, missing elements, and poorly articulated
reasoning. The applications you design must also move the user toward
his or her goals, as opposed to, just focusing on the user's tasks. MUST
HAVE STRONG METHODOLOGY!

Excellent Technical and Persuasive Writing Skills

The audience for design documentation ranges from developers and QA
teams to top-level executives. Our documents must efficiently and
accurately communicate design details, while also providing the
persuasion and professional look that inspires confidence in our work. 

DCs must enjoy writing and be able to generate large volumes of prose in
a short period of time.

Outstanding Collaboration Skills

Must be skilled at drawing out ideas, clarifying them, and helping their
colleagues synthesize information. The Design Communicator will have the
ability to extract the real meaning from a conversation. A Design
Communicator moves meetings forward at the right pace, maintains focus
on important issues, captures open issues and decisions, and drives
toward consensus. 

Strong Organizational Skills

As the keeper of the narrative of the design, a Design Communicator must
be able to organize concepts and details in the manner that best
facilitates understanding. In composing documents,  act as information
designers, and so must have a keen ability to present a variety of
information in the most appropriate way. Also,  act as day-to-day
project managers.

Qualifications for Design Communicator 
3 - 5 years experience as a Design Communicator or related discipline
(Experience in the field of Human Computer Interaction is a plus)
Experience as a business analyst is a plus
Experience as a technical writer a plus
Experience in the financial services industry a plus
Excellent communication (both written and verbal) skills 
Strong analytical skills
Strong presentation skills
Solid understanding of technology and the product development lifecycle

____________________________________________________________________

2. INTERACTION DESIGNER

As our Interaction Designer you will play a lead role in helping to
design the future look of applicatons. We're looking for someone who can
generate design ideas to meet user goals and then turn those ideas into
detailed form and behavior specifications to be used by Development and
Quality Assurance to produce and test our applications. The Interaction
Designer will team with a Design Communicator to conduct stakeholder and
user interviews; define personas, scenarios, and requirements; develop
interaction frameworks; and see the design all the way through to
detailed pixel specifications. You will also collaborate with visual
designers when appropriate. MUST HAVE STRONG METHODOLOGY!

Qualifications for Interaction Designer 
Empathy
The successful candidate will be curious about how other people work,
live, and think, you will enjoy meeting the users of our products, and
thinking about design by visualizing yourself as one who will use it. 

Improvisation
Our designers need the ability to brainstorm potential solutions to a
problem. More importantly, interaction designers can take those ideas,
screen out the bad ones, and focus on the good ones. In our design
environment, a designer needs the ability to brainstorm without ego
attachment to any particular idea. 

Superb communication skills
You will be required to digest and understand many complicated
regulatory rules that apply to equity trading in various jurisdictions.
The successful candidate will be able to communicate broad concepts as
well as fine detail through written and graphical media. Our interaction
designers need the ability to convey design solutions through sketches,
as well as through prose.

*        3 - 5 years experience developing graphical interfaces
(Experience in the field of Human Computer Interaction is a plus)

*        Experience generating design deliverables

*        Experience with the trading environment preferred;

*        Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills;

*        Solid understanding of technology and the product development
lifecycle;

*        Strong analytical skills.

*        Firm grasp of basic visual design principles and practices. 

*         Comfortable with common visual design tools like Photoshop and
InDesign.

Warm Regards,

Jocelyn Sirkis
Executive Recruiter
jocelyn at silversearchinc.com
www.silversearchinc.com
215-862-7020

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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
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Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:10 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] UPA2006 Conference - Seeking Onsite Volunteers -
ApplySoon!

Posting for a co-worker:

Greetings, User Experience Community!

The 2006 Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) International 
Conference is June 12 to June 16, 2006 in Broomfield, Colorado, 
USA.  We are very excited about the theme of "Usability through 
Storytelling" and the opportunity to network with other User 
Experience practitioners.

Volunteers are a critical component to the success of our annual 
conferences.  This year, we are looking for at least 25 volunteers 
to participate in a variety of capacities. As a volunteer, you will 
be asked to help with some behind-the-scenes activities in exchange 
for a greatly-reduced conference registration fee. In addition to 
the obvious financial benefits, you will also have the opportunity 
to interact closely with leaders in the User Experience field who 
will be attending the conference as speakers/presenters, conference 
planners, and participants.

If you want to learn more about the UPA2006 Conference volunteering 
opportunity, please visit 
http://www.upassoc.org/conferences_and_events/upa_conference/2006/vol
unteer/index.html

There, you can find details about the benefits, expectations and a 
link to the online application.

If you have any additional questions, please let us know.

Sincerely.
The UPA2006 Conference Volunteers Committee

-Pam Cote pam at pcexpressions.com
-Mary Pat LaBoda mplaboda1 at mmm.com
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