User Experience Jobs Visuals represents user experience
professionals who are seeking contract jobs or direct-hire
employment in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are a user experience or user-centered design
professional looking for employment, please view our open jobs
and consider applying for work. In addition to the jobs listed, we
have access through our network of contacts to many other
opportunities that may not be posted or publicly available. Just
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employment opportunities in the Bay Area. UCD Employers Do you need an Interaction Designer to write
functional specifications? How about a UI Designer to create
wireframes, page schematics, and user flows or a Visual
Designer to update the look of a web or application interface?
Visuals represents user experience design professionals
throughout the Bay Area. Please view our currently featured
talent or contact us to request talent. User Experience Salaries Highest in the Bay Area Salary data
provided by PayScale (see the US News article below) shows
that Bay Area User Experience professionals are the best paid in
the nation with a median salary of $115,000. We are followed by
New York at $112,000, then Chicago at $101,000. Boston,
Seattle, and San Diego are essentially tied at $98-99,000. Los
Angeles comes in seventh at $93,000 (in case you need another
reason not to move there). UX included in Best Careers 2008 US News and World Report
lists Usability/User Experience Specialist as one of “31 careers
with bright futures” that “offer strong outlooks and high job
satisfaction.” The strong outlook is based on the proliferation of
new and complex products, many of which demand a usability
specialist. They list the career’s downsides as “justifying your
service’s value [to] companies [that] believe the can make
products without a specifically trained usability expert,” and
“being typecast as someone who can help design only one kind
of product.” If you haven’t read the article, here’s a link to the on-
line edition: http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-
careers/best-careers-2008.html Usability Professionals Salary Survey A new salary survey
released by Usability Professionals Association, which provides
salary data by job classification (but not specifically for the Bay
Area), shows that User Experience Directors nationwide make
an average of $121,269, followed by User Experience Managers
at $94,752, Usability Managers at $87,886, User Researchers at
$83,161, UX Practitioners at $81,413; User-Centered Design
Practitioners $79,274; Information Architects at $78,755, and
finally Interface Designers at $62,623. These averages are low
for the Bay Area, but show the relative pay among specialties
nationwide. The full version is available only to UPA members
(but a free version is also available to the public) at:
http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/ |
