UX Designer
Job Qualifications
• Medical & scientific devices - both mobile and non-mobile
• Experience in devices and products, not web alone
• Ability and interest in architecture as well as visual design
• Joining a growing department/business in a well established consultancy in San Francisco
• Using Fireworks, Visio (and the usual Adobe products for design and simulation)
Details:
San Francisco-based Bridge Design, a product development consultancy specializing in medical and life science products, is looking for a UX designer with strong visual design and interface problem-solving skills to join our team. We are a small, well-established company (19 years) known for our convivial working atmosphere, multidisciplinary teamwork, and some groundbreaking UI’s, especially in diabetes care and in improved safety on products like infusion pumps. Our website does not strongly feature our UI work, as our more recent projects have not yet come to market, but you will get a general idea about us from it.
At long last the information technology explosion has hit the medical marketplace. Bridge has a rapidly growing UI practice, as manufacturers of all kinds of medical and scientific products need more sophisticated and more usable UI’s. We specialize in solving complex design problems related to usability, often operating inside some tough design constraints but always looking to push our client’s thinking & technology forward. Working on projects ranging from small mobile devices to innovative web applications to help manage chronic disease or better present information to clinicians or scientists, you will find this work challenging, interesting, and worthwhile. Typical problem-solving for our clients involves carefully researching user needs with site visits and/or patient interviews, and translating these insights into prototypes for further testing and eventually pixel-perfect specifications and flowcharts to guide developers. Our emphasis is on usability, as well as visual delight.
This position involves collaborating with internal industrial design & mechanical engineering departments. You will be operating inside tough design constraints but always thinking outside the box. Projects tend to be long in duration, 6 to 12 months typically, great for the ideal candidate, but not too appealing for some. We need more graphic design support with good visual design & problem-solving skills along with a passion for learning new, medical & scientific information. Making things look good often comes later in the game; we go through a lot of conceptual iteration, overall architecture step reduction, usability, working on screen layouts, metaphors for icons, sketching out architectures & usability research. Not everyone has to excel at all these tasks, but everyone needs to bring the right mentality. We tend to be collaborative with our clients. We are used to dealing with frequent change as we drill into projects & from what we learn during use research. This position within this department is going to be shaped partly by who is hired for it.
The successful candidate is likely to have 3 to 5 years experience and a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. Ideally you should have both small screen and web UX design experience, and be familiar with the Adobe suite of design tools and the typical development environments for web and embedded small screen apps. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
Please send an email to jobs11(at)bridgedesign(dot)com explaining why you feel you would be a good fit for this position, and a resume/portfolio (links strongly preferred over enclosures).
Please do not apply for the job if you do not already have the right to work in the US. We will not apply for visas nor wait for a successful candidate to get their own.