*Job Title: Interface Designer* *Requesting Dept. Digital Experience* *Location: Detroit, MI* *Duration: 1 year*
*User Interface Designer* *Top Three Criteria:* • A strong online portfolio of varied interactive design work (with link provided in their resume) • Experience designing responsive Web sites • Experience creating and working with style guides and pattern libraries As the UI Designer, you’ll be a vital part of translating the BCBSM brand into useful and engaging digital experiences for a variety of audiences, including consumers, members, agents, providers and your colleagues. You’ll work on a cross-disciplinary team with User Experience, Content Strategy and Development in a collaborative environment using Agile methodologies. This is an opportunity to work on a high-profile brand that’s making a real difference in the lives of your family, friends and neighbors. You’ll create solutions that inform and delight audiences and also achieve the goals of the business. You’ll determine the layout, color palette, visual hierarchy and typography, and create the visual affordances (cues) for interactive components within the interface. You’ll also create and maintain style guides to ensure a consistent design language is used throughout each product and advise the team on the appropriate implementation of BCBSM brand guidelines. *Essential Duties and Responsibilities :* 1 Create beautiful, clear page layouts and screen designs for our digital experiences for both desktop and mobile platforms 2 Create and maintain cohesive style guides to ensure a consistent design language is used throughout each product, and the BCBSM brand is faithfully and appropriately represented 3 Create intuitive and engaging interface elements such as buttons, icons, controls and infographics • Present and defend your design decisions - all your design decisions should be based on achieving the goals of the user and business as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc. • Offer and accept objective, constructive feedback in design critiques • Be a great team player, with the ability to collaborate closely and positively with product owners, developers, copywriters and UX designers • Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in design standards and methods Education and Experience • Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred • Three (3) to five (5) years of user interface design experience *Required Skills : * • Excel at solving design problems in new and creative ways so our products don’t become trite or predictable • Beautiful portfolio of project work for various clients, audiences, and platforms (showing your process is a plus, including examples of how you gather and interpret requirements, initial sketches, prototypes and iterations, as well as final designs) • Strong understanding and rabid pursuit of fundamental design principles – you know how to guide the user’s attention where you want, you use words like “harmony” and “hierarchy” when discussing design, and you know typography is about more than picking trendy typefaces • Able to comfortably and successfully pitch your work and negotiate changes with stakeholders and team members • We deliver experiences on a wide variety of platforms, so experience designing for both desktop and mobile (native, responsive/adaptive) is essential; familiarity with a “mobile first” design approach is very helpful as well *Other Helpful Experience and Abilities* • We’re a human-centered design shop, so familiarity with customer and user experience best practices will help you craft appropriate solutions and better communicate with the team • We work in an Agile environment, so experience working on Agile teams will help you hit the ground running • We use pattern libraries as well as style guides, so some familiarity with front-end development languages will be helpful (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) in communicating and planning with the team • The more you understand about our industry, the more effective your designs will be for users of our products, so experience working in healthcare or a related field is helpful Thanks & Regards Ron HMG America LLC Ph: +1 (732) 645 1718 E: [email protected] W: www.hmgamerica.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "American Vendor--IT Consulting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sap-vendor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
