Hi folks, please email me directly at ekim[at]ign[dot]com if you're interested in this position--thanks! - Eugene
Information Architect IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc. Location: Greater San Francisco or Los Angeles area IGN has an immediate need for a highly motivated, full-time Information Architect. This person will be responsible for identifying and documenting the functional aspects, behaviors and standards of IGN's websites. Responsibilities: ------------------------ • Create clean and concise wireframes, use cases, site maps, flow diagrams, screen prototypes and other artifacts to describe the intended user experience • Participate in project definition and review activities with program managers and business stakeholders • Visualize concepts quickly and cleanly through sketching and other rapid prototyping methods • Define site architecture and navigation that serves as a blueprint of the site upon which all other aspects are built • Moderate and prepare documents for usability tests, including test plans, scenarios and questionnaires • Participate in user studies to understand user behaviors/preferences and build, from this understanding, informed user interface solutions • Participate in formal and informal design critiques • Work collaboratively with designers to develop interface functionality • Scope, develop and understand development / engineering leads to determine efficacy of a given solution • Participate in quality assurance checks during production Qualifications ------------------------ • Bachelor's, Masters degree or equivalent work experience in HCI, Information Science, design disciplines (industrial, graphic, instructional, architecture), or other relevant field • 2+ years of experience as either a Junior Information Architect, or a member of an interactive design team. • Highly demonstrable skills creating user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, screen prototypes and functional specifications • Working knowledge of User Centered design principles and practices • Ability to research, understand and organize specialized content • Experience working on large, complex sites • Experience and/or interest in mentoring others • Excellent writing, speaking, presentation and interpersonal skills • Proficiency in Visio, Word, and Photoshop • Solid understanding of HTML & CSS ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
