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HumanCentric is a company dedicated to assisting its clients in developing compelling product experiences through the application of skill sets in Industrial Design, Graphic and Interaction Design, Design Research and Human Factors.
HumanCentric is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). No applicant shall be subjected to discrimination because of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, age, reprisal for engaging in anti-discrimination activities, protected genetic information, sexual orientation or parental status.
User Experience Designer
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Headquarters in Cary, North Carolina
Experience and Education Required: 3+ years and Master's Degree
Travel Required: Approximately 25% to 35%.
HumanCentric is hiring qualified user experience designers. HumanCentric is a human factors, design research, industrial design, and graphic design firm whose clients include high-tech consumer electronics manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, and automotive manufacturers. A user experience designer at HumanCentric is responsible for generating innovative and highly usable interface designs, conducting and overseeing user research with those designs, and working with and leading multi-disciplinary design teams to achieve design goals. A strong candidate will be outgoing, enthusiastic, and self-motivated and have excellent time management, design, and presentation skills. Experience with consulting is a plus.
Job Level Duties
Job duties include working closely with HumanCentric and client teams by:
- Providing expertise and support to development teams during the creation of user interfaces
- Flow charts of task flows or information architectures
- Design schematics
- Wire-frames of designs
- Paper and interactive prototypes
- User interface specifications
- Usability test protocols
- Driving usability evaluation efforts with the goal of analyzing and translating usability evaluation outcomes into design improvements
- Understanding product requirements and users' goals and objectives
Job Requirements
The User Experience Designer should have:
- 3+ years of relevant, on-the-job experience
- Confidence in one's capability and a strong commitment to excellence and professionalism
- Experience working in a team environment
- The ability to work on more than one project at a time
- A willingness to embrace new technologies in an ever-changing technological environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for effectively communicating complex specifications
- Experience with user research, requirements gathering, and information architecture
- Experience planning and conducting usability tests
- Willingness to work with teams located in remote geographical locations and time zones
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your resume to Patty Snow at psnow@humancentric.com.
Calling All Consultants!
HumanCentric is expanding our list of local freelancers who would be interested in both short and long-term research and/or design work. If you are interested in project-specific contract work, then we'd love to hear from you. We are looking for experienced people in the fields of user interface design, human factors, graphic design and interaction design for potential project work.
We have a variety of current clients and some exciting new ones. Our plan is to match the right designer to the right project.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your resume to Patty Snow at psnow@humancentric.com.