Our client, an innovative corporation located in Burlington, is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to collaborate on the creation of engaging user experiences for a variety of exciting and groundbreaking projects. As a visionary designer you will have proven design experience for desktops, mobile applications, and/or personal and consumer electronics. You will be a part of a growing multi-disciplinary team collaborating with Product Designers, other Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, Developers and Product Management.

If you’re a super-star wanting to get on the ground floor of some exciting projects to come- then this is the job for you!

Principal Responsibilities:

• Champion of the user experience, and user centered design methodology
• Capture and distil project requirements in order to obtain user requirements and input into solution
• Iteratively conceptualize, explore, evaluate solutions, and support their implementation
• Develop user scenarios, task flows, storyboards, low & high fidelity prototypes
• Create and maintain detailed specifications which describe interaction flow, screen layout, and behavior of features Conceptualize and enhance interactions and behaviors for applications as well as for core UI controls and navigation systems
• Ability to simulate or prototype interactions with prototyping tools is a plus (Flash, Axure)
• Work with Product Designers to collaborate on form factor
• Work with developers to assess the feasibility of implementing solutions
• Provide continuous support and feedback to implementers of features

Required Qualifications:

• A graduate of post-graduate degree in a product design related field such as; Interaction or Interface Design, Interactive Media, HCI, Industrial Design, or the equivalent experience and training in an area directly relevant to this position, is required.
• 6 years as an Interaction Designer developing consumer products
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, from one on one meetings  to group design sessions
• Strategic thinking and creative problem solving
• Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules
• Comfortable working in a loosely structured organization
• Have the visual design skills to produce professional-quality interaction design concepts and specifications.
• Fluency with Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Visio and other design tools
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and work with little direction

Desired:

• Experience with designing for mobile computers, Smartphone’s, and other consumer electronics
• Experience simulating complex workflows, core UI interactions, and applications
• Previous hardware-software interaction design
• Experience with designing input techniques (Multi-touch, Gesture, Virtual Keyboard)
• Usability Testing / User Research skills

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