Usability/ Interaction Design jobs at Google Bangalore

Google Bangalore is looking at Interaction Designers with atleast 3 years experience.
Interested designers can mail their resumes to jobs-bangalore@google.com with " Interaction Designer" as the subject.javascript:void(0)
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Design Dinner with Bill Buxton in Bangalore

Met up with Bill Buxton and loadsa cool design folks from Bangalore last nite at Cosmo Village.

Bill works as a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and is almost done with his design book called "Sketching the User Experience"

It was yet another interesting evening in Bangalore, filled with great mujik, conversations, food and drink. Caught up with the usual suspects likeAmit from Oracle, Param from GE, Parag from Honeywell, Navneet from Google and Archana, Indrani from Microsoft, Auro and Mukta from SAP, Varshesh from Infy and others. And it was a pleasure talking to Dr. Ghosal (Director, Research Wing, NID Blore).

Meet-up post Easy 7 in Bangalore

It was nice meeting-up Nishant Jain, David, Amit Pande, Paran, Surya Vanka, Bill Scott, Suresh, Geeta and others last week. However, I didnt attend Easy 7. Will post pictures soon. Bill Scott's preso on Ajax can be accessed here.

Easy 7 Conference in Bangalore

CHI South India is organizing their annual Easy 7 conference in Bangalore on Jan 5th Fri at The Leela Hotel.

As for me, I am more into organizing and participating in "unconferences" :)
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Honeywell Bangalore is hiring Usability Engineers

Interested candidates should forward their resume to rahul.arora [at] honeywell.com

Honeywell Technology Solutions Labs is the regional engineering and technology center of excellence, providing value to Honeywell's businesses through world-class software product development and support, research and technology development, digital works and consultation. The lab is rapidly expanding to include hardware engineering including mechanical and electronics engineering analysis and product design.

The User Centered Design Team at Honeywell Bangalore is responsible to support product groups and development teams to conceptualize the product offerings. This team also work towards improving the user experience of existing product portfolio.

We are looking for 'Practitioner' level resources for User Centered Design Team in Bangalore

Education: Formal Training / Education in Human-Computer Interaction
Design, Visual Communication, New Media Design

Experience: 2 to 5 years, preferably in a software product based
environment (Web, Client Server, Smart Clients, Mobile)

Core Skills & Responsibility:
1. Must have demonstrated skills in User Research, Scenario Building, Concept Generation, Prototyping, Heuristic Analysis, Usability Testing etc
2. Create task flow diagrams, define navigation and interaction pattern, Create UI prototype, storyboards and guidelines for UI development
3. Manage the user experience and interface design effort, including the visual design
4. Inclination to understand and solve complex technical issues pertaining to human computer interaction
5. Obtain stakeholder buy-in for the proposed designs and mentoring of internal teams on usability and user centered design
6. Conduct quality evaluations to ensure the user experience vision, design and standards are being fulfilled in the applications
7. Must be proficient in leading/facilitating in requirement gathering and design sessions.

Other skills:
1. Creative and Proactive
2. Excellent Visualization Skills
3. Excellent Communication Skills: Should have the ability to talk and discuss with internal and overseas partners directly.
4. Expertise in software like Flash, Photoshop and good understanding of prototyping tools

Interested candidates should forward their resume to rahul.arora [at] honeywell.com