Job Description
We are looking for a creative UI Designer to help us create, improve, and innovate the user-friendly interfaces that make our products successful. Part of a design process involving research, experimentation, and revision. Incorporate usability testing feedback. Elicit constructive feedback and capable of interpreting that feedback into design solutions. Perform field research to discover and implement important design details that people may not realize they need. Collaborate with others and work well with developers and product management. Familiar with Agile/Scum methodology.
Requirements
- Ability to solve all sorts of design challenges with creativity, efficiency and precision; a full stack designer (interaction, usability, graphic design, html, css).
- Skilled at building web sites and applications and an understanding of how they work.
- Comfortable designing for web browsing through any device: be it a desktop, laptop, iPad or smartphone.
- Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication, both written and spoken English, with both technical and not-so-technical people.
- Ability to explain why a design works or why it doesnβt.
- U.S. citizenship, and eligible to obtain clearance required.
- Minimum of 3-4 years of web and user application design experience.
- Able to integrate UX into Agile development practices.
- Strong visual design skills: Latest trends, color, typography.
- Strong interaction design skills: wireframing, prototyping, HTML5, CSS3.
- A passion for semantic mark-up and standards.
- Experience in developing graphic assets scalable for mobile devices (e.g. iPhone/iPad/Android).
