The Interaction Designer will work in cross-functional teams to create interactive designs for high-traffic web applications aimed at parents of K-12 students. Experience with interface design, information architecture, and interactive content design is required. A passion for user-centered design and creating intuitive and engaging user interfaces is key for this position. Â
What do we want you to do?  * Design innovative, engaging, and effective interactions that help parents use our applications to solve problems. How will you go about it?  * Develop user profiles or personas to help all teams come to a shared understanding of who our customers are and what challenges they face. * Develop an information architecture and user task flows that pull together the various resources we have to offer in intuitive ways. * Ensure quality and effectiveness of visual designs by participating in the design process, managing user testing, and collaborating with the development team. * Create wire frames, rapid prototypes and mock-ups to validate design concepts with stakeholders and customers. * Develop style guides and design specifications that developers will use to implement and validate interaction designs. How will you know you're successful?  * Work with measurement and product teams to define metrics for user success. * Help define multivariant tests and integrate data from web analytics into user interface designs. * Conduct formal or informal user and usability testing to validate the usability and intuitiveness of our interaction designs, information architecture, and user flows. Job Qualifications:  * 4+ years interaction design experience in web application product development. Experience with interaction design in an agile development environment is a plus. * Demonstrated experience in information architecture, user testing, and prototyping for innovative product design. * Ability to translate business requirements into effective UI solutions, manage the development of usable design standards and visual style guides, identify conflicting design requirements and constructively solve problems for the end user. * Thorough understanding of widgets, controls, and feedback mechanisms used on the web, their appropriate uses and what they communicate to users. * Solid presentation skills and experience presenting design scenarios and solutions confidently and credibly to internal stakeholders. * Ability to manage time and resources on multiple projects with multiple timelines. Ability to deal with changing priorities as needs dictate. * Experience with running multivariant tests is desirable. * Experience integrating video and interactive technologies is highly desirable. Skills Required: * Strong proficiency with FireWorks, PhotoShop, Omnigraffle/Visio and Dreamweaver * Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX * Knowledge of developing in Flash a plus Education: Bachelor's degree in human factors, interaction design or related discipline. Advanced degree in Design or HCI a plus.  A portfolio demonstrating interaction design experience is required. Please send a URL in the body of your application. Applying: You made it this far! Take the next step and send us an e-mail telling us why you think you would be a great candidate for this opportunity to jobs-ue.ixda at greatschools.net. Be sure to include your resume and a link to your portfolio, and use "Interaction Designer" in the subject line. This is a contract position.  Please contact us only if this is what you are seeking. Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. We cannot sponsor H1B visas at this time. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage diversity in our workplace. About GreatSchools: GreatSchools is an independent, nonprofit organization that empowers and inspires parents to participate in their child's development and educational success.  Parents choose GreatSchools to connect with each other â to find the right schools, to share stories and advice, and to get their parenting questions answered. In the past year alone, more than 35 million people visited GreatSchools (www.greatschools.net) . With hundreds of thousands of ratings and parent reviews about schools across the country, GreatSchools is the paramount parent-to-parent education community.  Our organization's mission is to empower parents with information and tools so they can choose the best school for their children, support their education, and improve schools in their communities. A Webby award-winning site, GreatSchools is supported by many foundations and corporations, including the Doris & Donald Fisher Fund, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robertson Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and more.
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