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Software Product Designers
Symbian are looking for people to join our Product Design team.
About Symbian - http://www.symbian.com
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Symbian licenses, develops and supports the EPOC operating system - providing leading
software, user interfaces, application frameworks and development tools for Wireless
Information Devices such as Communicators and Smartphones. Symbian aims to promote
standards for the interoperation of Wireless Information Devices with wireless networks,
content services, messaging and enterprise wide solutions.
With headquarters in London, and offices in Kanazawa, Japan and the San Francisco Bay
Area, Symbian is owned by Psion, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia.
Description of role
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The main role is to author, co-author and review software specifications, across a variety of
desktop and communications software, with UIs and Usability in mind. This will typically be
done together with members of technical teams and with licensee companies.
The role may optionally also include: - Research into UIs and Usability
- Usability testing
- Creating demos of design ideas
- Authoring User Help
Essential experience / skills:
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- Experience of a design / creative process (used to lateral / creative thinking)
- PC literate - but not necessarily technical
- An interest in the developing world of computing/communications
- Intelligence
- An analytical, logical mind, with the ability to think from other people's point of view
- An ability to stand back from the detail and see the big picture
- A teamwork attitude is essential; all of our software specifications involve the work of many
people
Other useful experience / skills
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- Design experience of consumer products
- Software training, support or user documentation experience - Research work
- HCI qualifications
- Writing skills
- Time management skills
- Interpersonal / meeting skills
Salary range 18,000UKP - 40,000UKP
Based Central London
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