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David Crow

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MDS Sciex – User Experience Architect

by davidcrow

Job ID # 2099-720915

Primary Functions – Job ID # 2099-720915

Develop and maintain a user-centered design approach for MDS SCIEX. Lead a cross-functional team that uses this approach to create successful user experiences with SCIEX products.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a user centered design approach to software user interface (UI) design.
  • Lead a cross functional UI design team, providing training and instruction to other team members in customer research techniques, usability techniques, and user-centered design.
  • Apply ethnographical interviewing and observational techniques to collect information about how our customers work and what their goals and tasks are. Disseminate this information appropriately through project teams.
  • Write user requirements based on information gathered from end users and participate in project requirement definition and analysis.
  • Coordinate and arrange customer visits for the purpose of insight gathering and prototype testing. Facilitate this type of visit for other functional groups as required.
  • Develop and maintain personas, task flow models and other user information for all of our customer segments.
  • Develop and test UI prototypes using a variety of tools and testing techniques including customer and internal reviews.
  • Develop and maintain user interface standards.
  • Write UI design specifications and scenarios (use cases) that can easily be interpreted by software developers, technical writers and product testers etc.
  • Develop usability test plans, and plan and execute usability studies, analyze data and provide actionable recommendations to product managers and development teams to ensure successful user interaction with SCIEX software.
  • Evaluate competitive software from a usability and user experience point-of-view.
  • Provide leadership to product development teams to ensure appropriate application of human factors and usability principles, techniques, and results to product development.

Qualifications

  • 5 + years experience in interaction design, usability, and UI design.Post-secondary degree in Cognitive Psychology, Computer/Human Interaction, Information Design or related field.
    Extensive experience doing ethnographic studies, contextual research, field testing etc.In depth understanding of software development processes.Extensive experience with UI prototyping tools.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills.
  • Detail and deadline oriented.Excellent analytical skills.
  • Experience developing and developing and implementing an user centric UI design approach would be an asset.

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Posted on February 26, 2006 Filed Under: Jobs

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