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Sliced Bread Design is looking for talented senior interaction designers and user researchers for contract and/or full time positions. If you are interested please send an email with your resume and a link to your portfolio to jobs@slicedbreaddesign.com.
About Sliced Bread Design
We are a boutique interaction design agency that works on web, desktop, mobile, voice, and touch screen interfaces. Our clients range from larger companies such as Adobe and Intuit to smaller innovative startups. To learn more about our company, visit www.slicedbreaddesign.com.
SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGN POSITION
Top 5 Things You MUST Have for the Interaction Design Position:
- A strong body of work demonstrating experience with complex web and/or mobile applications
- Personal knowledge of a user-centered design process including rapid prototyping and user testing
- Ability to create interactive prototypes in HTML (Not final working code, just smoke and mirror prototypes to share)
- Excellent time management
- Flexibility, including the ability to work in pajamas and bunny slippers
Responsibilities
- Interacting with clients to build a relationship and communicate about design
- Creating a design strategy based on understanding user, business, and functional needs through methods such as contextual inquiry, stakeholder interviews, workflow analysis, and competitive/heuristic review
- Designing the experience, including the overall information architecture such as site maps and task flows, and detailed interaction designs such as wireframes
- Evaluating usability through informal and formal user testing
Additional Requirements
- Live in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Minimum of 1 year experience working directly with clients in consulting relationships
- Ability to work from home and in our office in Mountain View
- Expert with Dreamweaver, Photoshop or Fireworks, Illustrator or Visio
- Basic understanding of technologies that influence UI design including .net, JSP, ASP, and XML
SENIOR USER RESEARCHER POSITION
We are seeking a well-rounded SENIOR-level user research specialist with expertise in a range of qualitative methods including usability testing and field studies.
Top 4 Things You MUST Have for the User Researcher Position:
- A strong body of work demonstrating experience conducting ethnographic field studies, classic lab usability tests, and more informal quick and dirty user research for complex web and/or mobile applications
- Experience working with clients
- Excellent writing skills
- Great time management
- Live in the Bay Area
Responsibilities
- Conduct user research for clients using appropriate methods based on the goals of the study
- Plan, design and conduct usability evaluations including 1:1 usability sessions, remote usability testing, card sorts, contextual interviewing, online questionnaires, etc.
- Analyze and interpret data, compile reports and present findings to cross functional teams
Additional Requirements
- Live in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Minimum of 1 year experience working directly with clients in consulting relationships
- Ability to work from home and in our office in Mountain View