Interaction Design Position Open
One of the projects I started working on early in my career, about eleven years ago, was with the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technical Division, based near Indian Head, Maryland. We were hired to help their leadership conceive, prototype, and build a suite of applications that would help EOD warfighters plan and carry out their missions. Over the years, it has been one of the most rewarding projects I’ve had the privilege to work on. I gained an enormous amount of experience with a wide range of technologies and use contexts. I’ve worked with ruggedized, mobile computing devices from PDAs to touch-enabled laptops. I’ve observed warfighters in training scenarios and stood in a bunker while they used a robot to set off a hunk of C4 on the bomb range. I’ve designed software that plots locations of threats and their blast zones on a map, allows collaboration through shared whiteboards, and potentially saves lives. I even got a couple pages in Luke Wroblewski’s book on form design, Filling in the Blanks, for the complex reporting our application has to support. And after years of this type of work, we convinced our customer to hire full-time Interaction Designers onsite.
One of those positions is now open. The full details can be found on Inmedius’ careers page.
