Usability Lab Specialist Job in Tacoma, Washington Us

As Usability Lab Specialist you will:
• Assess T2 user requirements, needs and satisfaction levels
• Create user interface designs, prototypes and specifications across multiple platforms
• Design and conduct usability tests at various stages of the development process
• Analyze the results of these tests and making recommendations to improve design and functionality
• Develop and publish usability guidelines to provide clients with the tools in the design process
• Create, promote and support a corporate standard for usability excellence throughout the Department.
• Responsible for planning, overseeing, coordinating, implementing and evaluating usability work within T2.
o Responsibilities include:
 Setting goals and objectives
 Formulating and implementing a strategic vision
 Conceiving policies and strategies and managing usability activities
 Providing leadership and support in identifying, evaluating, and implementing the most effective processes, methods, and tools for delivering usability.
 Assuring that user interfaces to all T2 and their client’s products and services are understandable, usable, useful and effective.
• Leads and manages the translation of usability engineering and user-center design principles to components of T2 and other federal government agencies
o Responsibilities include:
 Identifying the programs goals, objectives and priorities.
 Overseeing the development of program topics and schedules.
 Coordinating needs assessments and evaluation activities and interpret results to increase the effectiveness of the program.
 Identifying new methods and technologies including:
• Online training to translate knowledge and ensure that these new efforts are usable and useful.
• Conducts data gathering projects to assess user characteristics, requirements, needs, goals, and opportunities related to our clients products.
• Determines data collection method(s), develops data collection tools (questionnaires, interview questions, etc.), analyzes the data, prepares results, and makes recommendations based on this data.

Looking for all levels of Usability Professionals.