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Senior User Experience Specialist
at MathWorks, Inc. in Natick, MA
Job Summary:
You will be responsible for leading user-centered design activities related to MathWorks products and/or Web applications. You will work with development teams to understand their projects' user-centered design requirements, and develop creative solutions for meeting those needs.
Responsibilities:
• Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects' needs, goals and constraints.
• Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles and create task lists.
• Contribute to requirements and design documents.
• Help the development team follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborate on paper and functional prototypes.
• Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and perform other usability assessments you think are appropriate.
• Help the team interpret and understand user feedback, and provide input for design decisions based on that feedback.
Qualifications:
• BA, BS, or MA in cognitive psychology, human factors, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4-8 years as a usability engineer in software design and development
• Direct experience with a variety of usability methods
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to balance needs of a large number of concurrent projects and work effectively with cross-functional teams
Pluses:
• Experience working in technical domains
• Knowledge of MathWorks products
To apply, click the link below or copy and paste it into your browser window.
http://bit.ly/qMaNZW
You will be responsible for leading user-centered design activities related to MathWorks products and/or Web applications. You will work with development teams to understand their projects' user-centered design requirements, and develop creative solutions for meeting those needs.
Responsibilities:
• Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects' needs, goals and constraints.
• Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles and create task lists.
• Contribute to requirements and design documents.
• Help the development team follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborate on paper and functional prototypes.
• Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and perform other usability assessments you think are appropriate.
• Help the team interpret and understand user feedback, and provide input for design decisions based on that feedback.
Qualifications:
• BA, BS, or MA in cognitive psychology, human factors, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4-8 years as a usability engineer in software design and development
• Direct experience with a variety of usability methods
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to balance needs of a large number of concurrent projects and work effectively with cross-functional teams
Pluses:
• Experience working in technical domains
• Knowledge of MathWorks products
To apply, click the link below or copy and paste it into your browser window.
http://bit.ly/qMaNZW
Published on 14-07-2011