User Experience Designer
Requirements:
- A minimum of 1-3 years’ experience in user experience design, information architecture, or interaction design
- A solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field
- Experienced with both content-driven applications and task-oriented, experiential web sites; as well as across multiple platforms including mobile and touch-based interfaces
- Excellent analytical, communication, and teamwork skills
- Proficiency with Omnigraffle, Fireworks, InDesign, Illustrator, and Excel
- A thorough understanding of current web technologies and usability best practices
- Strong organizational skills and extreme attention to detail
- An excellent portfolio of work
Responsibilities and Expectations:
Support. Supports senior-level User Experience Designers with primary (or secondary) design and documentation. Acts as the “lead” User Experience Designer on smaller projects.
Develop. Develops a thorough understanding of the agency process, end-to-end; and proactively provides input to account and production team members regarding user experience design, process, and creative strategy.
Creative craft skills. Demonstrates the craft of user experience design, following industry and agency standards and best practices. Produces tangible documentation, including: content inventories, competitive reviews, heuristic evaluations, persona development, user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, and UI specifications.
Idea generation. Capable of defining consumers, processes, and ideas from an objective point of view based on research and insight, and can effectively communicate this point of view with senior management on both the agency and client sides.
Interested candidates can apply directly to dcjobs@akqa.com.