Lybba, a healthcare nonprofit design organization, is hiring product interaction designers.
One position requires an interaction design/generator to conduct research into the needs of women cancer patients in underserved areas of Alameda County, and to devise ways to help them make decisions that improve their chances for survival and which will also benefit science.
The other position requires an interaction design/synthesizer to conduct research into the needs of physicians contributing to a software-assisted diagnostic tool, which will help improve care for individuals and advance medical knowledge.
At Lybba, we work at the edge of design, technical, and policy innovation. We get cozy with pediatricians and pathologists, cancer patients and kids with Crohn's disease, Russian software developers and community-health activists. We walk our talk and are geared to transform healthcare for the common good.
Interaction designers generally work in pairs that represent two distinct roles reflecting natural divergences in personality and strengths, and we refer to the roles according to the core skills each must bring: Generation and Synthesis. But whatever you call yourself, the point is this: you know how to ask the right questions, adore collaboration, make beautiful things that work, and know how to devise solutions that generate meaning in the "real world" outside the computer screen and mobile devices. Being able to create design specifications is a must.
If interested, drop me a line: david@lybba.org
And I might add that it is great to work at Lybba with so many talented, interesting, and smart folks. I was an independent graphic designer before becoming a Visual Designer at Lybba, and it is just awesome to be a part of a team that appreciates good design thinking and exercises that expertise with our partners every day.