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Senior Interaction Designer
at Elsevier in London
The Senior Interaction Designer works with UCD team members, product managers and developers, to create and improve the user interfaces of Elsevier's main existing and new Web products. Depending on skills and seniority, activities include: carrying out field studies and user interviews, creating personas, designing interaction flows (wireframes), usability testing, and working with visual designers and developers to get the user interface implemented.
Qualifications
1. Multiple language skills: Fluent in English, French or Spanish (or both)
2. 5-10 years of experience in User Experience work.
3. Degree or training in developing user interfaces throughout the complete project cycle from the creation of initial site specifications to design, production, testing and launch, playing a proactive role in the process.
4. Experience in and knowledge of User Centered Design practices, such as setting up and carrying out user research using various research methods, interaction design and usability testing.
5. Familiar with the basics of web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and with designing for database-driven websites. Any additional technical skills, such as more in-depth knowledge of web technologies or server-side technologies such as PHP, are a strong plus.
6. Visual design skills are a strong plus.
7. Conceptual thinking, presentation skills at a high level, creative.
8. A drive for wanting to build products from the user's point of view.
9. Ability to work on multiple projects with minimal assistance from fellow team members.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
11. Ability to work and communicate pro-actively with business owners, product managers and project managers.
12. Good listener and communicator, self-reliant, creative out-of-the-box thinking and used to taking initiative.
About the User-Centered Design Group
Elsevier's User-Centered Design group is involved throughout all phases of the product life cycle, helping (through interaction design) to refine product and service definitions, working with customers to understand their needs, and designing interfaces that maximize efficiency of the needed interactions. We work at the intersection of health research, clinical practice and the internet, and help define new developments in this area. The UCD group currently consists of over 40 people spread over Europe and the USA.
About Elsevier
For over 100 years, the Elsevier name has represented a dedication to excellence in the exchange of information. Today Elsevier remains committed to that mission and has grown into an information provider of global proportions in scientific and health markets with offices around the world. Learn more about us at http://www.elsevier.com
To Apply
Apply online via the link below or contact Chris Jasek at chris.jasek [at] elsevier[dot]com
Qualifications
1. Multiple language skills: Fluent in English, French or Spanish (or both)
2. 5-10 years of experience in User Experience work.
3. Degree or training in developing user interfaces throughout the complete project cycle from the creation of initial site specifications to design, production, testing and launch, playing a proactive role in the process.
4. Experience in and knowledge of User Centered Design practices, such as setting up and carrying out user research using various research methods, interaction design and usability testing.
5. Familiar with the basics of web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and with designing for database-driven websites. Any additional technical skills, such as more in-depth knowledge of web technologies or server-side technologies such as PHP, are a strong plus.
6. Visual design skills are a strong plus.
7. Conceptual thinking, presentation skills at a high level, creative.
8. A drive for wanting to build products from the user's point of view.
9. Ability to work on multiple projects with minimal assistance from fellow team members.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
11. Ability to work and communicate pro-actively with business owners, product managers and project managers.
12. Good listener and communicator, self-reliant, creative out-of-the-box thinking and used to taking initiative.
About the User-Centered Design Group
Elsevier's User-Centered Design group is involved throughout all phases of the product life cycle, helping (through interaction design) to refine product and service definitions, working with customers to understand their needs, and designing interfaces that maximize efficiency of the needed interactions. We work at the intersection of health research, clinical practice and the internet, and help define new developments in this area. The UCD group currently consists of over 40 people spread over Europe and the USA.
About Elsevier
For over 100 years, the Elsevier name has represented a dedication to excellence in the exchange of information. Today Elsevier remains committed to that mission and has grown into an information provider of global proportions in scientific and health markets with offices around the world. Learn more about us at http://www.elsevier.com
To Apply
Apply online via the link below or contact Chris Jasek at chris.jasek [at] elsevier[dot]com
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