Statement of job responsibilities:

• Working with design teams on a day-to-day basis with responsibility for implementing product usability plans and meeting usability goals.
• Designing and running lab and field studies for Microsoft applications, systems software, and associated documentation and training materials.
• Analyzing usability data, reporting and interpreting findings, and working with design teams to implement appropriate solutions.

• 2+ years experience conducting usability studies in the computer industry.
• A thorough knowledge of human computer interaction issues as well as product design methodologies.
• Demonstrated research design skills are a must, including knowledge of a variety of behavioral research methods.
• Interested in candidates with degrees in cognitive, experimental or human factors psychology; computer science with a human factors emphasis; anthropology; and related fields.

Statement of job responsibilities:

• Working with users and software development teams to: gather and analyze user and task requirements, prototype user interface design alternatives.
• performing usability testing of proposed user interface designs.

• Degree(graduate preferred) in a human factors related field such as computer science, psychology or industrial engineering with a particular emphasis in user interface design and HCI.
• Course work/research in cognitive psychology, experimental design and statistics.
• Desired qualifications include knowledge/experience of: Telecommunications or data communications industry, user interface design guidelines(OSF/Motif, Macintosh, Windows).
• Design with one or more UI prototyping tools such as UIMX, Open Interface, Visual Basic, Hypercard.
• Computer programming experience a plus.