Interaction Designer

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We are currently seeking a talented Interaction Designer for a 6-12 month project with IBM working remotely. MAX PAY RATE TO CONSULTANT: OPEN 

The IBM Headquarters is searching for a talented UX professional to join our User Centered Design CoC in providing IBMers with a great User Experience in our internal solution

We drive excellence in employee solutions by successfully merging business and user goals, creating solutions that deliver on intuitive user interfaces that increase adoption and drive business success. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders, other talented UX professionals and others in a multidisciplinary team to design web and mobile solutions for the Global IBM user audience. As a practitioner you will be responsible for all tasks associated with user research and design on both large and small scale solutions working independently on a solution or with a team of UX professionals. 

In this role a successful candidate will : 

• Work with stakeholders and others in a multidisciplinary team to define requirements and develop the solution

• Perform user research and observation of user tasks, integrating these findings with business requirements to transform the user’s mental model into the user interface

• Tease out the important characteristics of users, their environments, and work tasks to drive an intuitive experience

• Develop user profiles, usability requirements, use cases & scenarios to articulate the solution experience

• Design intuitive and simple user interfaces for web and mobile solutions, producing storyboards, mockups and conceptual models

• Prototype designs to represent the User Interface (UI) and user research of the model iteratively integrated into the UI design of the solution

• Leverage experience in prototype tools such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Balsamiq, Visio or VisualBasic, iRise, and Dojo

• Utilize various cognitive techniques to evaluate user interfaces with end users to refine the UI to ensure it compliments the users task, environment, profile and needs

• Display teamwork and persuasive interpersonal communications skills

Required

Master's /PhD Degree in one of the following disciplines: Cognitive Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Behavioural Scientist, Human Factors Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and/or Industrial / Systems Engineering

• At least 3 years experience in User Centered Design / HCI

• At least 3 years experience in User Research

• At least 3 years experience in developing user requirements, user scenario's, user stories, etc and Usability Requirements

• At least 3 years experience in Interaction Design

• At least 3 years experience in designing web based interfaces

• At least 3 years experience in designing mobile interfaces

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.