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• [04/30/2008 . Ottawa, ON, Canada]: Senior User Experience Designer, Adobe Systems Updated
• [04/08/2008 . Toronto, ON, Canada]: Interaction Designer, Fluid Project
• [02/04/2008 . Seattle, WA, USA]: Senior User Experience Designer, Microsoft Live Labs
• [02/04/2008 . Bellevue, WA, USA]: Senior User Experience Designer, Microsoft Live Labs
• [02/04/2008 . Seattle, WA, USA]: User Experience Researcher, Microsoft Live Labs

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Senior User Experience Designer

Position: Senior User Experience Designer
Team/Department: LiveCycle Team
Organization: Adobe Systems
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Please email resumes/portfolios to Kim Hoffman kimh@adobe.com.

Overview

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company’s award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.

Today, Adobe is better positioned than ever to push the boundaries of the digital universe. Under the leadership of President & CEO Shantanu Narayen, we're driving even greater innovation with powerful, compelling software solutions that meet the needs of customers and markets ranging from designers and filmmakers, to enterprises and governments, to developers and home users.

Recognizing that employees are at the core of our success, Adobe recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creates an environment where they can innovate and achieve their best, and rewards them for their performance by giving them an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

Adobe At-A-Glance

• Headquarters: San Jose, CA
• Founded: 1982
• IPO Date: 1986
• Employees:6,500+
• Offices: 30+ offices worldwide
• Fiscal 2005 revenue: $1.96 billion
• Fiscal 2006 revenue: $2.57 billion
• Fiscal 2007 revenue: $3.15 billion
  
• Business Units:
  • Business Productivity
  • Creative Solutions
  • Mobile and Device Solutions
  • Platform
  • Print and Classic Publishing

About Adobe Canada

Adobe employs more than 380 people in Canada, focusing on engineering, North American Customer Care Centre of Excellence, professional services, and operations. With offices in Ottawa and Toronto, Adobe is one of the top employers in the nation’s capital.

Position Overview

Adobe Systems Incorporated is seeking a Senior User Experience Designer to join the LiveCycle team.

As an Adobe Sr. Experience Designer, you will be responsible for creating great experiences for several members of the Adobe product family. You will work collaboratively with fellow members of the UE (User Experience) team to conceptualize, design and prototype ideas; then inspire members of Product Management, Engineering and Quality Engineering to develop award winning products.

Responsibilities:

As a UE Team member, you would:

• Represent the "user experience," translate customer requirements into defined specifications and inspire the Engineering team to develop the right product.
• Own the design of the most impactful user interface – related features and review specifications.
• Participate in the product definition process with the Product Manager, Engineering Manager and User Research.
• Significantly influence product strategy and direction.
• Work with User Research and Product Manager to translate business and marketing goals into the best software solutions for our business.
• Develop and maintain design mockups, usage scenarios, prototypes, specifications, navigation maps and other design documents.
• Work with feature development teams to make sure that the workflow reflects the customer’s needs and ensure consistency among features.
• Develop expert-level knowledge of competitive and complementary products and bring new ideas to the team.
• Define innovative user interfaces and interaction styles which result in improved user productivity.

Requirements

The ideal candidate would have the following qualifications:

• Uncanny drive to design the best user experience in the world.
• Strong software design communication skills. (Ability to communicate one’s ideas through their design.)
• Interaction Design
• Visual Design
• Prototyping
• Proven track record and a passion for designing compelling, award-winning user interfaces.
• High degree of creativity and problem solving.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Experience working with various departments within a product team.
• Team player.

Adobe believes personal fulfillment and company success go hand in hand, sustaining one another. In fact, our dynamic, rewarding working environment is well known – including eight years on FORTUNE magazine’s "100 Best Companies to Work For", and other, similar accolades. By hiring the very best and brightest, Adobe continues to be a simply better place to work – creating a dynamic environment today and providing incentives for future achievement.

Adobe is committed to Employment Equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to source a diverse candidate pool that includes candidates from under-represented designated groups.

Other Info:

About Adobe http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe

Adobe Executive Bios http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/executivebios

Adobe Investor Relations http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations

Adobe Career Opportunities http://www.adobe.com/careers.

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Interaction Designer

Organization: Fluid Project
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Position: Interaction Designer

The Fluid Project (http://fluidproject.org) is looking for an Interaction Designer who wants to help make open source software more usable for everyone. If you have a passion for community-driven design and for creating great, accessible Web 2.0 applications, we want to hear from you.

https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=46581

The Fluid Project is an open source project dedicated to improving the user experience of other open and community source projects including uPortal, Sakai, and OpenCollection.

Fluid builds accessible, rich user interface components that can be reused across web applications. Fluid also provides design guidance and accessibility support for user interface designers and developers within open source communities. Our work is freely available under the BSD, Educational Community, and Creative Commons licenses.

https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=46581

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Senior User Experience Designer

Company Name: Microsoft Live Labs
Company URL: labs.live.com
Job Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Job Title: Senior User Experience Designer
Job Description:

The Microsoft Live Labs user experience team is seeking a seasoned UX designer to champion the continuing development of Photosynth, Live Labs' online photo experience (see http://labs.live.com/Photosynth). Candidates for this role must demonstrate applied experience in designing for online communities and elegant end-to-end experiences that involve multiple technologies and/or software components.

Microsoft Live Labs is a team of world class scientists, engineers and designers who are taking the lead in exploring the intersection of science and technology to conceive and deliver new internet product concepts and experiences in the areas of; search, advertising, social networking and multimedia. Our work surfaces rapidly and is shaped through dialog with the online community, iteration and refinement.

Our goal is to thoughtfully explore new ideas and concepts in a public forum with a clear roadmap to a final product. Microsoft Live Labs has locations in downtown Bellevue and Seattle.

This is a unique opportunity to advance the breadth of functionality and enhanced user experience of technologies Live Labs has previously revealed. Candidates are expected to demonstrate applied experience in designing compelling solutions for rich client or web applications.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience in designing consumer-oriented experiences that have directly contributed to the growth of healthy online communities.

Specific responsibilities of this role include;

• champion the user experience through design and development phases with effective communication and buy-in of; goals, scenarios, features, deliverables, milestones and progress,
• develop a information architecture that can ensure a consistent end-to-end experience for complex system that incorporates multiple technologies and software components,
• express ideas and concepts through storyboards, illustrations, presentations and prototypes,
• closely collaborate with scientists, engineers and fellow designers to evaluate and iterate on ideas and designs,
• detailing final designs to facilitate implementation or hand-off, addressing all user experience-related issues blocking implementation,
• manage multiple projects, prioritize and plan all deliverables,

A four year degree in Industrial-, Visual-, Interaction- or Interactive-Media Design, or related field is expected. 5-7 years of industry experience developing consumer-oriented client or web applications is expected. Solid communications and presentations skills are expected. Expert level knowledge of design, illustration and prototyping tools is expected. JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX or C# development is an asset.

Contact Information:

Send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume and a link to your portfolio to Leslie Corneto (lescor@microsoft.com). Please include the position for which you are applying in the subject field.

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Senior User Experience Designer

Company Name: Microsoft Live Labs
Company URL: labs.live.com
Job Location: Bellevue, WA, USA
Job Title: Senior User Experience Designer
Job Description:

The Microsoft Live Labs user experience team is seeking a seasoned senior UX designer with applied industry experience in conceptualizing, exploring, prototyping and delivering, new and novel internet search experiences that leverage new search technologies.

Microsoft Live Labs is a team of world class scientists, engineers and designers who are taking the lead in exploring the intersection of science and technology to conceive and deliver new internet product concepts and experiences in the areas of; search, advertising, social networking and multimedia. Our work surfaces rapidly and is shaped through dialog with the online community, iteration and refinement.

Our goal is to thoughtfully explore new ideas and concepts in a public forum with a clear roadmap towards a final product in mind. Live Labs has locations in downtown Bellevue and Seattle.

This is a unique opportunity to reinvent the internet search experience. By understanding new search technologies, conceiving new user scenarios and prototyping new search interfaces, you can impact Microsoft's future search strategy. Candidates are expected to demonstrate applied experience in designing compelling search solutions for rich client or web applications. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a solid history of designing and delivering products that achieve a high usability standard while venturing into new areas such as storytelling, desirability and emotional engagement with the user.

Specific responsibilities of this role include;

• understanding new technologies, identifying the product opportunities they present and crafting these into user experience goals, scenarios, features and experiences,
• expressing ideas and concepts though high-fidelity storyboards, illustrations and prototypes,
• closely collaborating with scientists, engineers and fellow designers to evaluate and iterate on ideas and designs,
• detailing final designs to facilitate implementation or hand-off, addressing all user experience-related issues blocking implementation,
• managing multiple projects, prioritizing and planning deliverables,

A four year degree in Industrial-, Visual-, Interaction- or Interactive-Media Design, or related field is expected. 3-5 years of industry experience developing rich client or web applications is expected. Solid communications and presentations skills are expected.

Expert level knowledge of design, illustration and prototyping tools is expected. JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX or C# development is an asset.

Contact Information:

Send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume and a link to your portfolio to Leslie Corneto (lescor@microsoft.com). Please include the position for which you are applying in the subject field.

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User Experience Researcher

Company Name: Microsoft Live Labs
Company URL: labs.live.com
Job Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Job Title: User Experience Researcher
Job Description:

The Microsoft Live Labs user experience team is seeking a seasoned User Experience Researcher with applied industry experience in employing research tools and methodologies to inform incubation initiatives to ensure that new internet technologies and solutions are embraced by Live Labs customers and partners.

Microsoft Live Labs is a team of world class scientists, engineers and designers who are taking the lead in exploring the intersection of science and technology to conceive and deliver new internet product concepts and experiences in the areas of; search, advertising, social networking and multimedia. Our work surfaces rapidly and is shaped through dialog with the online community, iteration and refinement.

Our goal is to thoughtfully explore new ideas and concepts in a public forum with a clear roadmap towards a final product in mind. Live Labs has locations in downtown Bellevue and Seattle.

This is a unique opportunity to reinvent the internet experience.

Candidates are expected to demonstrate experience in developing and applying a user research program that informed rich client/web applications or technologies. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a direct impact their program had on the product definition, user experience or customer satisfaction. Of particular interest is a candidate who can demonstrate research that strove to understand that drives customer adoption and loyalty.

Specific responsibilities of this role include;

• define a coordinated research program that employs a variety of User Centered Design research methods to support initiatives across Live Labs. Emphasis will be on rapid evaluation and iteration.
• describe and represent Live Labs' target audiences, customers and partners.
• understand new technologies, identifying the product opportunities they present and craft these into user experience goals, scenarios, features and experiences.
• collaborate with scientists, engineers and fellow designers to evaluate and iterate on ideas and designs through the development cycle.
• manage multiple projects, prioritizing and planning deliverables, managing vendors or contractors as you balance tactical and strategic initiatives.

A degree in Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, or Human Factors, with 5-7 years of industry experience in user research, usability, human factors engineering, HCI product design and the evaluation of user interfaces or technologies is expected. Experience with desirability metrics, user experience trees or scenario-based design is an asset. Strong summarization and presentation of user research or usability data is a requirement.

Contact Information:

Send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume and a link to your portfolio to Leslie Corneto (lescor@microsoft.com). Please include the position for which you are applying in the subject field.

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