One of our new clients is looking for a User Experience Strategist / Information Architect hybrid to join our team of designers, strategists and architects to help with client-facing application design. They work with a broad spectrum of clients from high profile start-ups to publicly traded companies on UX design projects
Responsibilities Include:
Participate in initial strategy sessions to help identify and set direction for achieving project objectives.
Understand target audiences' needs, tasks, and goals and translate them into creative Information Architecture concepts.
Collaborate with user experience, design and content strategy teams to brainstorm and validate experience design concepts.
Participate in user research, concept testing, and usability testing.
Understand and utilize usability guidelines.
Organize content into logical categories and develop structural design through establishing the foundation of information access and functional relationships at the site and page-level.
Produce site maps, work flows, functional specifications and navigational wireframes to drive target audience's online experience.
Communicate and collaborate at all stages of User Interface development.
Contribute to overarching User Experience strategy by identifying how the proposed application architecture, functionality and navigation reflect the strategy and audience objectives.
Keep abreast of trends and best practices in interactive design, rich media and information design and share those lessons with the team members and management.
Provide competitive analysis of IA and functional design, as appropriate.
The successful applicant will bring with them the following:
Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field, such as information design, instructional design, UI design or human-computer interaction
Two years experience in Web application architecture design for interactive medium (e.g., information architect, interaction designer, or experience designer)
Advanced knowledge of architecture software programs (e.g., In Design, Illustrator, and Axure)
Strong interest in interactive design
Experience building and rapidly iterating on interactive prototypes
Ability to pencil sketch
Knowledge of website design and development; ability to work across technical design mediums (working knowledge of CSS/HTML/JS a plus)
Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication and presentation skills
Extremely detail-oriented, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment with aggressive development schedules, while often juggling multiple projects
Instant Technology - 11 months ago
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