Bestica Senior User Experience Designer - 3 to 6 Month Contract in Bay Area
>From state-of-the-art CAD design and drafting to the industry's most progressive digital prototyping, our client delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions to help create, improve, and refine designs. If you or someone you know is interested contact me, Alan Johnson at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 210.200.8523. Bestica wants to know if you area a talented and influential design lead or individual contributor? Are you a recognized corporate and industry leader and one who excels in quick and strong interactive design solutions? Are you seen as both creative and pragmatic? Skilled in both visual design and interaction design? Are you a person who enjoys creating and evangelizing team and product vision and who has strong, proven customer affinity and user empathy? Bestica's clients User Experience team seeks a strong, well-rounded designer with skills and experience in UI architecture, interaction design, and visual design to help build new and compelling generations of software made for the world's best designers and engineers. Successful candidate will be well trained in design, demonstrate an ability to apply strategic thinking and business goals to design work, possess an understanding of both work flow and user tasks, and will be known for having a good eye, usability focus, and aesthetic values. Candidate will have worked as a hands-on UI design practitioner and will be responsible for delivering hands-on exploratory and finished design. Our client may not be a household name, but the products, buildings, games and movies created with their tools are known worldwide. They're a $2 billion company with a market cap that's risen faster than the S&P 500-stock index. They hold the number 25 spot on the Business Week top 50 list of the best-performing large companies. Ideal candidate will: * Lead by example, design intelligence, and design principals * Hold direct responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and top user tasks * Illustrate drive for ease-of-use and simplicity despite complexity of software/desktop applications * Learn new technologies quickly, from the core applications being developed to new design tools * Be capable of defining and implementing design criteria, design guidelines, and design specs; illustrate experience with industry standards and corporate visual design guidelines * Be capable of independent design process, project, and schedule management * Compare, contrast, and prioritize among alternative approaches to meeting design objectives, using judgment to suggest solutions to design problems that optimize among customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities * Illustrate experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation * Be tolerant of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation * Be a creative problem-solver and an effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator * Be efficient and insightful in dealing with peers, partners, and cross-discipline and cross-team relationships * Exhibit ability to collaborate with art directors, peer UI designers, UI text writers, user researchers and to accept input from a variety of other corporate peers and sponsors Requirements and Qualifications: * Four-year product/interaction design or graphic design degree * Post-graduate design degree preferred in design or cognitive science/human factors * Minimum five years industry experience (combination of corporate, software, web, agency experience) * Three to five years application product experience. Experience in shipping high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning software products * Strong portfolio available for viewing * Strong prototyping and mockup skills; efficient scripting skills preferred * Strong Photoshop skills; agility with Illustrator and InDesign preferred * Experience with all other major design, multimedia, and operating system software: Flash, Director, Visio/Visual Basic, Windows, Microsoft Office, QuarkXpress, PageMaker (Mac experience acceptable as long as candidate has significant experience designing and producing on the PC as well) Regards Veena Gowthamchand Recruiting Coordinator Ph: 210-614-4187 Fax: 210-745-1631 ________________________________________________________________ *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
