Job Details: Interaction Designer
| Job Title: | Interaction Designer |
| Job ID: | S0011IA |
| Company: | Ariel Partners |
| Position Type: | Contract |
| Pay Rate: | Market / Competitive |
| Skills: | IU, screen prototype/mockups, JavaScript |
| Date Posted: | Mar-26-08 |
Senior Interaction Designer
Ariel Partners (www.arielpartners.com) has an immediate opening for an AJAX
oriented Information Architect/Interaction Designer !
This position involves development of a leading edge AJAX Web UI for a for a major
Enterprise resource management product. Our project is very long term, with flexible options for either full-time employee status or long term consulting.
Location: Highly accessible; just 1 block from Penn Station in New York City.
Description:
Application UI/ID/UX position. Designer will work closely with business analysts,
clients, and developers to produce realistic screen prototype/mockups; prototypes
involve fairly complex JavaScript/DHTML in order to accurately simulate the
look/feel of the finished web pages.
Required Strengths:
•Strong Application Design background, with heavy thin client/browser based applications,
•Ability to design from requirements, design from scratch.
•Ability to facilitate collaborative requirements definition meetings from a user advocate position.
•Hands on experience with fundamentals of design; Full SDLC experience from a UI POV, including: Abstract design, articulate logic flows as well as screen-flows; states and transitions. (Focused Exp. Required)
•Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi hands-on Prototyping (Focused Exp. Required)
•Field research, CI (Contextual Inquiry)
•Test Experience
Requires :
•Application Design Experience
•Excellent written/oral communication skills
•Excellent problem solving/analytical skills.
Technical Skills :
Required:
•JavaScript: at least intermediate skill level, including ability to do simple custom hand coding, including usage of open source JS libraries
•DHTML, CSS, in a production environment:
•Graphics applications Like DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio or similar tools experience.
•AJAX Familiarity: The candidate should be cognizant of the latest trends in AJAX/Web 2.0 UI.
Pluses:
•Basic experience with JavaScript libraries like Prototype, Ext, Dojo, Scriptaculous, as well as familiarity with XML are highly desirable !
•AJAX/Web 2.0 Experience: High-end interactive design experience incorporating AJAX Web 2.0 technologies
•Experience with Product Development; Strongly preferred
•Familiarity with basic OO design is helpful
Detail Elaboration for Profile and Environment
Technical Knowledge needed:
•HTML -- Intermediate to Advanced knowledge -- Required
•DHTML -- Intermediate to Advanced knowledge -- Required
•CSS -- Intermediate to Advanced knowledge -- Required
•JavaScript -- Intermediate to Advanced knowledge -- Required
JS Frameworks:
•Scriptacuous -- Knowledge of to Advanced knowledge -- Nice to have
•EXT -- Knowledge of to Advanced knowledge -- Nice to have
Design Experience
Must Have:
•Excellent “conceptual” design skills, be able to “design on the fly”.
•Ability to take spoken and written requirements and create Interaction Designs and User Interfaces from these requirements.
•Excellent layout skills. Know proper usage of white space, contrast, consistency, precedence, and gestalt principles.
•Intermediate Graphics skills. Be able to make reasonable icons and knowledge to use colors correctly.
•Ability to create optimal screen flows.
•Taxonomy development.
•Flow Chart development.
•Web 2.0/Ajax design.
•Design for Enterprise Web Applications.
Prototyping, (intermediate to expert level, required)
•Whiteboard Prototyping
•Paper Prototyping
•HTML Prototyping
•Lo-fi Prototyping
•Mid-fi Prototyping
•Hi-fi Prototyping
Project Management, Presentation abilities and General Knowledge, (all skills are required at Senior level):
Must Have:
•Ability to present and discuss complex interactions, with and without prototypes, to a variety of stakeholders.
•Guide discussions in order to achieve optimal UI and Usability.
•Be the User Interface/ Interaction Design Expert.
•Understand and work within dynamic timelines.
•Be flexible with changing requirements and feedback.
•Elicit and interpret requirements from stakeholders in order to achieve successful and optimal UI.
•Have a sense of humor and don't take feedback personally.
•Designing in full SDLC.
•Basically be pleasant and presentable
Process Knowledge, (nice to have):
•Agile Process.
•XP Process.
•Scrum Process.
•UCD -- User Centered Design
Usability and User testing Experience, (Intermediate to Advanced skills is a plus):
•Heuristic Evaluations
•Field Tests
•Control Room Testing
•Surveys
•Contextual Inquiry
•Persona development
Knowledge of UX/UI thought leaders, (knowledgeable of some to all of these people):
•Jacob Nielson
•Donald Norman
•Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini
•Alan Cooper
•Jared Spool
•Robert Reimman
•Karen Holtzenblatt
•Edward Tufte
•Bill Buxton
•Jesse James Garret
•Steve Krug
•Peter Morvile
•Louis Rosenfield
Education - Bachelors/Masters, desired coursework, (can be flexible):
•HCI
•Computer Science
•Cognitive Psychology
•Industrial Design
•Engineering
•(Other degrees with experience)
| Location: [rss] | US-NY-New York |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | b copello |
| Contact Phone: | |
| Contact Email: | bcopello@arielpartners.com |
| URL: | http://www.arielpartners.com |
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Contact Comments:
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| Information Architect/Interaction design, User interviews, design from scratch, use Jscripts to create protoypes. Long term; great rates for top talent | |
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