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 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: (Advanced) 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 dont 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) Qualified and interested candidates can email resume directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and may include samples or portfolio link. Regards, Bert Copello Ariel Partners, LLC The only sustainable competitive advantage is thinking better... ________________________________________________________________ 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
