{"id":11439,"date":"2012-03-28T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2012-03-28T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:31:42","slug":"job-job-opportunity-user-experience-interaction-designer-atomic-software-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2012\/03\/28\/job-job-opportunity-user-experience-interaction-designer-atomic-software-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB] Job Opportunity \/ User Experience \/ Interaction Designer @ Atomic Software (Brooklyn)"},"content":{"rendered":"
User Experience \/ Interaction Designer<\/div>\n
About Atomic Software<\/div>\n
Atomic is a Brooklyn-based firm that makes digital products for the book publishing industry. We<\/div>\n
have a twelve-year track record of creating elegant technology for some of the largest media<\/div>\n
companies in the world. Our clients include Random House, Scholastic, Harcourt, and Pearson.<\/div>\n
Our products directly affect the future of an industry that is becoming digital right now.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The Position<\/div>\n
Atomic is building a team of innovative design thinkers, who can invent, spec, design, prototype,<\/div>\n
and build the front-end of great digital products. Your focus at Atomic will be on how users<\/div>\n
experience our products: What should this product do? How should it feel? Why would someone<\/div>\n
love to use this product?<\/div>\n
We\u02bcre looking for people who have a vision of the whole product: great design sensibilities, a<\/div>\n
keen interest in communicating user-centered design principles to technologists and business<\/div>\n
managers, some hands-on experience building digital products, and an interest in working closely<\/div>\n
with programming staff to co-develop great digital products. You should also be interested in how<\/div>\n
authors, editors, publishers, and readers will be creating, selling, contributing to, and enjoying<\/div>\n
books in years to come.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
This job will start as a contract position, with the possibility of switching to full time.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
User Experience Design Skills<\/div>\n
You should be able to:<\/div>\n
\u2022 Define, design, and communicate a clear vision of what a product will look like, feel like, and<\/div>\n
act like.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Engage with clients, end users, and management to understand clearly what they want a<\/div>\n
product to be.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Draw on a detailed knowledge of user-centered design practices, including user-experience<\/div>\n
and service-design practices.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Create visual wireframes, mock-ups, and fast prototypes to understand and communicate<\/div>\n
how a user would accomplish a series of tasks, and how those tasks fit into a larger<\/div>\n
information architecture.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Possess a sophisticated sense of design style and impeccable design fundamentals for type,<\/div>\n
image, and color.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Quickly sketch a series of related screens while sitting with a client.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Communicate a vision for how a static visual design will translate to an interactive, customerfriendly<\/div>\n
product.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Take pride in producing an interface that is beautiful and consistent, delightful and efficient.<\/div>\n
Technical Skills<\/div>\n
We\u02bcd like it if you knew how to:<\/div>\n
\u2022 Work with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Fireworks to bring wireframes to life and with<\/div>\n
tools like Balsamiq Mockups for simple mock-ups.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Take a design even further by implementing interaction, using tools like Adobe Dreamweaver,<\/div>\n
HTML5, Apple Xcode, and Adobe Catalyst.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Understand what will be required to implement a design as the interface to the product.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Communicate closely with technical software engineers about how the interface will work and<\/div>\n
make adjustments based on technical requirements.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Design many kinds of product interfaces: desktop application, browser, mobile, tablet, print,<\/div>\n
interactive whiteboard, video games, ebook readers, and any other medium we can throw a<\/div>\n
book at.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Conceptual Skills<\/div>\n
You must be able to:<\/div>\n
\u2022 Combine design expertise with the ability to speak your mind, think critically, and find the<\/div>\n
simpler, more elegant way to get the job done.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Take pride in your work and be able to explain to anyone \u2014 client, lay-person, engineer, or<\/div>\n
executive \u2014 exactly why it’s great.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Recognize when you could have done a better job and take action to improve things.<\/div>\n
\u2022 Listen to the end-user or client thoughtfully, address the user\u02bcs concerns, and communicate<\/div>\n
what courses of action are available or preferred.<\/div>\n
These conceptual skills are not after-thoughts: we consider them as much part of the job<\/div>\n
description as any of the design or engineering skills listed above.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
To Apply<\/div>\n
Send a resume and cover email to\u00a0jobs@atomicsoftware.com<\/a>\u00a0with the subject line \u201cUser<\/div>\n
Experience \/ Interaction Designer\u201d. Include a link to a digital portfolio.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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