I hope everything is fine at ITP since may. The company that I am currently working at (KBSP) is hiring a new interaction designer.
There are many ITP’ers in here and company is very open to ITP like mind set. Also, person that we hire will be in the same department with me and we will work on a lot of fun projects.
Here is the description for the position, I would really appreciate if you can forward it to student list. To get more information about the position and the company, they can e-mail me Mustafa Bagdatli (ITP Alum) at mbagdatli@kbsp.com
KBSP looking to fill an Interaction Designer position
About Us:
kbsp is a high energy, full service agency (advertising, marketing, media, pr, brand, and digital), located in soho, with a media agnostic approach to our work. (www.kbsp.com)
About You:
You’re a techno-misfit, enjoy quantifying and qualifying data and research, and use it towards ideating/innovating interactive and physical experiences, product, services, and/or campaigns while applying your meticulous and methodical prowess towards design strategy and insights, developing brand and information architecture, with an eye towards functionality, usability, and experience design; be it online, mobile, kiosk, social networks, and physical space.
Our ideal candidate for the Associate Interaction Designer position is a user-centered designer with a cross-disciplinary set of interests, comes from a design or design-minded field, and is a systems thinker. In other words, instills both, emotive andrational qualities, able to bridge both digital and physical worlds in the area of product, services, advertising, and marketing.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in concept ideation
- Conduct effective practices research, design strategy, and documentation
- Determine a product’s mandate, feature set, content set, and business requirements
- Participate in user testing or fieldwork
- Develop user personas, user journeys, interaction models
- Create wireframes and functional specs
- Document feature behavior in loving, painstaking detail
- Collaborate with teammates, clients, and third parties to ensure that your solutions survive the development process
Requirements:
- Hands-on ability to apply the methodologies of interaction design to software development and interactive campaigns
- 1-2 years experience designing and documenting applications or large-scale interactive campaigns, involving detailed design schematics and business rules.
- Provenability to multi-task
- Solid writing and visual communication skills
- Familiarity with usability heuristics and relevant HCI literature
- Knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop or other tool for generating wireframes and behavior specifications
- Sense of humor
Contact:
Mustafa Bagdatli – Associate Interaction Designer