Our client’s mobile division is looking for strong UX Designer who is excited about the unique design challenges presented in a mobile lifestyle. Design is a core part of their team – a collaborative group of individuals representing ethnography, visual design, user research, audio design, and interaction design – all focused on defining, designing and delivering great user experiences for the mobile platform and products.
The team is looking to fill two roles – an Interaction Designer to do interaction design/visual design for phones and a Visual Designer for phone interfaces and web properties.
Interface design, icon design, animation prototypes are typical daily responsibilities.
The ideal candidate is excited about working hands-on as part of a team creating visual and interaction solutions for mobile products. You inspire others to maintain a high standard of quality and positively influence how great user-centered design impacts product development. In a rapidly evolving product space, you view unforeseen changes as opportunities, and championing design excellence while incorporating real world limitations which include business alignment. You will also reach out to other groups within the division to communicate design opportunities, always keeping a pulse on ways to refine and innovate in the product space. You are detail-focused, organized and have excellent communication skills.
The position requires a strong design background in visual and interaction design and a portfolio of work demonstrating the range of experience. Must be proficient in industry standard visualization and prototyping tools, and capable of owning large initiatives in a proactive environment.
Each position will go for 1 year starting in mid-September
VISUAL DESIGNER
Responsibilities:
The visual designer is responsible for defining the look and feel of different user interfaces for phone applications and/or mobile web properties. This role requires strong and flexible skills in visual design, interactive design and awareness of client-side technologies. Substantial understanding of user interface issues and information architecture is also important.
Participation in project ideation; graphics development; ability to take art direction and constructive criticism; ability to manage and estimate personal time outlays for each project; working with PMs and developers to implement designs into final products.
Job Requirements
• Requires strong and flexible skills in visual design and interactive design.
• Exhibits stylistic breadth, attention to detail, and balances beauty, innovation and usability
• Substantial understanding of user interface issues and information architecture is also important.
• 2-4 years of professional design/new media experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Solid understanding of practical benefits and limitations of Internet technologies (Shockwave, Flash, Java, DHTML, CGI, etc.).
Interested candidates should present a body of work that:
• Demonstrates a passion for interactive content development
• Exhibits stylistic breadth, attention to detail, and balances beauty, innovation and usability
• Shows experience with diverse content
• Proves their facility with page-based design (HTML) and screen-based interface design (Flash, etc.)
INTERACTION DESIGNER
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for designing user interfaces for mobile devices, designing and animating prototypes using Flash or After Effects it’s a must.
• Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery.
• Familiar interpreting mock ups, task analysis, usability studies, personas, user flows, wireframes, style guides, navigational structures, and affinity diagrams and translating them to user interfaces.
• Able to generate design ideas, presenting and selling designs to product group, understanding customer needs and motivations and integrates them into product design to contribute to user features and functionality.
• Industrial design modeling or knowledge a plus.
• Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers.
Job Requirements
* At least two year of user interface design experience and a Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or behavioral science discipline.
* Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to Mobile-based applications.
* Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash or After Effects, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
* Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS is a plus
* Excellent communication and organization skills. Must be able to work both on a team and independently.
To apply, send resume and portfolio to agarber (at) aquent (dot) com
