User Experience Designer
New York
The Position
You have shown mastery in communicating precision detail through words and infographics. You get results by questioning the status quo to get answers that solve clients' business problems. No one doubts you will always deliver the right ideas that put users first and take client/consumer relationships to the next level.
As a User-Experience Designer, you guide and partner with clients, selling the work as well as the user-centered methodology along the way. Your interaction design ideas are breakthrough and your wireframes are development-ready blueprints. Your vision and execution of information architecture builds trust with clients by making the complex understandable.
Requirements
- 2-4 years experience designing or developing websites, mobile apps, or software
- Study in a related field such as technical communications, graphic design, human-computer interaction, library science, or industrial design
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, javascript, AJAX, CMS, and the capabilities of Web browsers across multiple platforms
- Experience using Omnigraffle, Word, Illustrator, Photoshop or similar programs
- Experience observing and translating user research into design decisions
- Stay current with and find ways to integrate advances of technology
- Born problem solver with organizational skills and attention to detail
- Maturity beyond age or years of experience to deal with stress and pressure
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Highly responsible, collaborative and self-motivated
Responsibilities
- Develop and document the strategy and structure of a product
- Define and describe the information relationships and navigation models at the product, screen, and module levels
- Develop approaches to the categorization and hierarchical structure of content or content types
- Advocate for users by bringing your depth of knowledge to all work
- Distill research findings into concise user-centered design strategies
- Efficiently create, edit and manage detailed information architecture documents
- Understand and utilize information architecture best practices
- Connect business requirements with user-centered designs through concept models, site maps, wireframes and interaction diagrams
- Develop personas and scenarios that positively influence the design
- Conduct usability analyses on client web sites and web applications
- Support usability testing activities: interviews, card-sorting, task analysis, focus groups, prototypes, etc. to inform the interaction design
Apply: careers@space150.com