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aol.com>University or Organization: AOL Department: Tegic Communications Rank of Job: User Interface Designer/Usability Specialist Specialty Areas: Fluent in Chinese or Japanese would be ideal Description: Company: Tegic Communications URL: http://www.Tegic.com and www.T9.com Location: Seattle, Washington Position Title: User Interface Designer/Usability Specialist Duration: Full Time Job Description: Tegic Communications is currently seeking User Interface Designers with usability testing experience. As a member of the UI and Usability Group, this person will design or evaluate new or existing mobile text input products and provide recommendations for the best possible user experience. Will participate in all aspects of product design, including: gathering and communicating design data via task flow analysis and user scenarios; planning and conducting in-house usability studies; proposing new user interaction design; creating specifications; and conveying UI design ideas via storyboards and prototyping tools. May be responsible for communicating UI design strategies to device manufacturers or project teams and for guiding the adaptation of mobile products to new devices and environments. May participate in design review meetings at customer sites. The designer's immediate responsibilities include helping to adapt current-generation text input products to mobile devices, which use both proprietary and standard operating systems, while exploring new ways to apply disambiguation technologies and linguistic knowledge to the problems of mobile text input. The job position reports to the Director of Product Design and Usability in the Tegic Communications business unit. Tegic Communication's flagship product, T9, is the market leader in text input technology. Tegic Communications is wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. Requirements: * Significant experience writing and evaluating UI and functional specifications. * Strong aptitude for quickly understanding technical details * Experience planning and conducting usability studies and creating study materials. * Excellent communications skills, good organization, time management, and attention to detail. * Comfortable working in cross-functional teams, and the ability to accomplish tasks with or without supervision on a number of concurrent projects. * At least a BA/BS degree and 5 years of experience. Desired: * Knowledge of foreign language; preferably the Chinese or Japanese language and its written forms. * Experience or training in usability methods, field studies, and/or ethnographic research. * Formal education in Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or Computer Science preferably at the Masters or Ph.D. level * Experience using graphics, scripting, and/or prototyping tools. * Experience with embedded systems or software other than traditional desktop or client/server applications. * Personal interest in current and future mobile devices (e.g. phone, PDA, pager) and/or text-based communications. Contact Information: Please contact Christina James, Director, via email at christinaljamesMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue