If you’re the person we’re looking for, you are:
User-centered. You are passionate about understanding how people interact with computers and the web. You’re driven to find the best ways to facilitate your users’ goals (and maybe even improve their lives).
Engaged. You explore the world and the web in search of inspiration, skills, and ideas. You incorporate both experimental techniques and time-tested practices into your versatile design process.
Collaborative. Your ideal creative environment is hands-on, participatory, and team-oriented. You thrive on feedback and you think well on your feet.
Motivated. You believe anything can be made better, and you prove it by taking complex information systems and making them beautiful, intuitive, light-weight, and approachable.
Key Activities
- Work closely with the product and engineering teams to develop and implement UI product design strategies
- Construct scenarios, wireframes, flow diagrams, and/or other models to explore and communicate user interaction patterns
- Validate new design ideas through rapid prototyping and usability testing
- Provide functional specs, in-development consultation, and pre-release Q/A and review for new and improved features
- 3+ years professional interaction design experience
- Fluent in layout and design tools (e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks)
- Great communication and design skills
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, and jQuery or other JS library
- Usability analysis or information architecture experience a plus