Interaction Design Consultant

Responsibilities
Interaction Design Consultants enter client engagements to ensure that functional elements align with human factor principles. He/she works to establish representative character profiles for key audience groups, scoping usage scenarios, and identifying differences in information types and access required by different customer groups. Tasks include product usability, evaluation and support to development team, low fidelity user testing to support rapid development of user interfaces, and usability testing for validation and heuristic evaluations based on principles/guidelines from industry best practices and cognitive research. Project deliverables are overall navigation schematic, interaction model, and branding and design parameters that will serve as reference for graphic designers. Needs to be familiar with programming basics/technical skills. May help develop design concept and implementation, providing input on user design considerations.

Skills and Experience

• 3 years of proven experience in human factors engineering (including Web, software, or e-business solutions development)
• Education in cognitive or experimental psychology, human factors or equivalent preferred
• Highly developed UI design skills for creating paper and electronic prototypes (graphic design, Web design, Web development languages/technology)
• Ability to flexibly articulate the value of user-centered designs
• Ability to integrate into project teams and take direction and input effectively

Digital Foundry offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package including competitive salary, performance bonuses, stock options, medical, dental, vision, and a matching retirement (401K) program..

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