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SolutionSet is a growing internet consulting business. Our client list includes top companies and organizations across the country. You might be just who we need to join our team.
Title: User Interface Designer
Department: Consulting Services
Reports to: Director, User Experience
Overall Purpose:
SolutionSet is looking for a User Interface Designer. You are a user-interface and information architecture expert. You will be involved in the design and implementation of Internet solutions for our clients, delivering premier, creative, entertaining, high-volume, high-visibility, enterprise-scale websites. You will drive the usability of all interactive and website applications designed by the team by creating and organizing client content into effective information architecture. You will ensure the usability of all interactive and website applications designed by the team by creating effective screen designs that communicate client information and interaction goals to users. You will audit client websites and suggest UE strategies to help them meet their goals.
We’d like to meet you if you can:
- Inherently know what makes users tick, and understand the methodological reasons to explain this behavior
- Appreciate how to balance business, marketing and creative goals to drive user-interaction
- Understand how design and technology can co-operate to create more than a sum of parts
- Collaborate professionally with fuzzy logic devices (people)
- Respect deadlines and the value of achieved commitments
Key Areas of Responsibility:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with Project Managers in organizing information, helping create/edit Information Architecture sitemaps, create/edit UI wire-frames, keep tech and creative teams on track, etc.
- Working directly with content, visual design, engineering, and other teams to deliver innovative, user-centered design solutions for products
- Working with engineering and front-end production teams to understand technical issues
- Leading other teams in identifying and defining product needs and features
- Researching and prioritizing user and functional requirements
- Creating and iterating Information Architecture Schemes
- Creating and iterating UI designs
- Producing wire-frames and detailed, written specifications of your designs for product teams
- Planning and managing usability testing/user research to test and iterate your designs
Qualifications:
The candidate must have proven ability and qualifications in the following areas:
- 1 to 3 years experience designing interfaces and IA for websites
- Degree in a related field such as human computer interaction, graphic design, industrial design, or equivalent experience
- Excellent UI design skills and a demonstrable track record of designing interfaces and writing detailed specifications for products
- Fluency in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Visio
- Big picture design ideas
- Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills
- Experience working on at a creative agency a plus
Please have good examples of your previous work to show while explaining the details involved in their production. Send resume in Text-only or PDF and URLs of work you have done.
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