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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: 5+ years Master's Degree
Travel Required: Approximately 25% to 35%.
HumanCentric is hiring qualified user experience designers to augment the existing team of strong in-house HF staff. HumanCentric is a Human Factors, Design Research, Industrial Design and Graphics design firm whose many clients include high-tech consumer electronics manufacturers, medical device manufacturers and automotive manufacturers. A user experience designer at HumanCentric is responsible for a including generating innovative and highly usable interface designs, conduct or oversee user research with those designs, work with or lead a multi-disciplinary design team and clients to achieve design goals. A strong candidate will be outgoing, enthusiastic, and self-motivated with excellent time management skills, excellent design skills, and strong presentation skills. Some travel is an exciting part of this position and 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 creation of user interfaces.
- Flow charts of task flows or information architecture
- Design schematics
- Wire-frames of designs
- Paper and Interactive prototypes
- User Interface Specifications
- Usability test protocols and moderation
- Driving usability evaluation efforts, when applicable, with the goal of analyzing and translating usability evaluation outcomes into design improvements.
- Understanding product requirements and user's goals and objectives.
- Conceptualizing and creating user interface specifications that meet the product requirements of both clients and the clients' customers. Products must meet user, technical, and creative expectations.
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.
- Experience working on a variety of soft and hard interface types
- 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 allowing them to effectively communicate complex specifications
- Solid experience with user research, requirement gathering, and information architecture.
- Experience planning and conducting usability tests
- Willingness to work with teams often located in remote geographical locations and time zones.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your resume to jobs@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 jobs@humancentric.com.