At the preseason tryouts for the U.S. Boomerang Team in Greenfield, Mass., one figure stands out among the hacky sack players and pizza delivery guys gathering in the soccer fields, limbering up their throwing arms.
Eric Darnell, a soft-spoken 62-year-old Quaker and backyard inventor from South Stafford, Vt., has brought 60 of his latest handmade boomerang prototypes, along with several notebooks, two windsocks and printouts of weather forecasts. While others just hurl their rangs -- as aficionados call them -- Darnell tries to be as meticulous and scientific as possible about the objects he refers to as "my kinetic sculptures."
What you’ll do:
• Uncover what our customers are thinking and turn those insights into the best-in-class user experience
• Lead concept ideation and iteration with sketching, wireframe development, and prototypes
• Design elegant solutions to complex workflows
• Collaborate with product management and executives to prioritize the product roadmap
• Communicate scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs to stakeholders
• Collaborate with visual designers to maintain design consistency and coherence across the product as appropriate, collaborate with a product focused User Researcher to aid in the conduct generative and evaluative research as needed
• Work on features and products through their entire lifecycle: user research, competitive analysis, product definition, usability testing, launch, and beyond
• Integrate UX research and design into our agile development process
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.