Career Profile for Usability Engineers

The German Chapter of the Usability Professional Association (UPA) has just published a job role description for usability engineers including a summary of typical areas of work of usability staff along the software development lifecycle.

Although this is a very valuable document, it is still an open issue how usability job roles are reflected in appropriate job titles. Especially for people who find themselves in varying assignment along the supply chain, finding the right naming is very often difficult. I have discussed this in an earlier post already (see http://www.usability-architect.com/2009/06/who-am-i-from-interface-designers-to.html) and continuing a discussion in this topic seems both reasonable and necessary to me.

The article can be found at: http://germanupa.de/german-upa/berufsfeld

Full reference of the article:
Beschreibung der Rollen und Aufgaben von Usability Professionals im benutzerorientierten Entwicklungsprozess Weitergabe nur mit Genehmigung des Arbeitskreis Berufsbild des German Chapter der UPA e.V. Herausgeber: German Chapter der UPA e.V., Arbeitskreis Berufsfeld Autoren: C. Bogner, T. Geis, P. Huber, C. Lutsch, K. Petrovic, K. Polkehn Ansprechpartner: Clemens Lutsch, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH Version 1: April 2009