Thursday, January 14, 2010

Senior User Interaction Designer (IxD)

CLICK TO APPLY

Cisco is looking for Senior Interaction Designer to join our TelePresence User Experience team. In this position you will work with a fast-paced team of peer interaction and visual designers and usability testers to refine / extend our industry leading video communications / collaboration system.

Responsibilities:
- Define the user interaction model and work-flows
- Help drive product direction based on field research and
functional requirements
- Generate UI mockups including wire-frames and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Document User Interface Specifications
- Work with usability engineers to design and conduct usability studies.
- Work closely with engineers to deliver the final product
- Facilitate project communication across a multi-disciplinary team throughout all phases of the project
- Present concepts / designs to team members, executives and engineering
- Shepherd design from concept phase, thru implementation -- right up to FCS

Requirements:
- 8+ years experience
- College degree in HCI, CS or related field or equivalent experience
- Experience in a variety of different platforms -- desktop, devices, web applications.
- Team player interested in building products that change the world
- Participation in delivery of at least 3 releases of a product
- Able to quickly understand constraints of design problem, identify tradeoffs and communicate them to fellow designers / decision makers
- Strong verbal communication and writing skills

Preferred:
- Experience designing Macintosh / iPhone / Palm Pre applications
- Experience prototyping with Adobe Flex, Flash, Director
- Experience designing with Adobe PhotoShop / Fireworks / Illustrator
- Experience working with industrial designers
- CSCW tools

CLICK TO APPLY