User Interaction Designer (Shanghai, PRC)

Autodesk may not be a household name, but the buildings, games, movies, and products created with our tools are known worldwide. We’re a $1.5 billion company with a market cap that's risen faster than the S&P 500-stock index. We hold the number 25 spot on the BusinessWeek top 50 list of the best-performing large companies. Consistently in the Fortune Top 100 companies to work for, we believe in customer-orientation, innovation, and taking important risks.
Role:

This is your chance to help shape the user-centered future of model-based design tools in the building industry. As a User Interaction Designer for Autodesk products, you will be responsible for interaction design and usability for a product based on an emerging platform. You will help articulate design specifications and drive your work through the software development process as a champion of our users’ needs.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptual and detailed design of the user interaction for specific features (including low fidelity wireframes, task analysis, UI flow charts, and high fidelity mockups representing appropriate layout and control relationships)
• Assist domain experts on the team with research and specification development
• Coordinate and facilitate usability tests and other customer research to validate existing and future feature design (including paper prototype testing)
• Provide expertise in user research activities including persona creation, heuristic evaluation, interviews, and site visits including ethnographic observation and/or contextual inquiry
• Track development issues and drive closure of design projects related to improving usability
• Maintain familiarity with other Autodesk products to ensure compatibility with features shared across our product family

Attributes:

• A portfolio demonstrating superior design skills and deliverables from a user-centered design process
• Excellent skills in problem analysis including the ability to identify and describe the “right” problem from a set of data of varying types
• Verbal and written fluency in the English language and strong verbal and visual communication skills
• A solid understanding of both quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Ability to solve complex problems and drive projects from concept to conclusion
• Interact with and influence others effectively via teamwork and diplomacy
• Demonstrates interest in the details and the results of the design process, not just the initial high concept

Desired Knowledge/Skills:

• An advanced degree or experience in an HCI-related subject
• Ability to develop interactive prototypes and documentation to aid evaluation and development of designs
• Technical background and/or a demonstrable understanding of modern software development processes and concerns as they relate to design
• Previous experience designing for complex creative applications, 3d tools, and/or engineering analysis tools, and building industry applications a plus
• Expertise with design support tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio
• Minimum 1 year of professional or internship experience doing interface design and usability evaluation/research