Title: *Information Architect*
Location: *Boston, MA*
Duration: *6 Months*
*Need EAD/ GC/ Citizen because this position is possible contract to hire
after 6 months.*
Senior Information Architects are responsible for the navigation,
organization, interaction design, and business/user process engineering for
leading-edge Web solutions, software, and mobile devices/applications. You
will apply user-centered design methods to translate user needs, business
objectives, and technology capabilities into world-class user experiences
for leading companies. As a senior-level practitioner, you will be expected
to lead small tracks of work, work directly with clients, and drive a point
of view for the end-user facing solution. We look for people who are
passionate about what they do, and thrive working with other smart people
to solve the toughest design challenges.
*Key Responsibilities*:
• Assess existing sites/properties for usefulness, usability,
visual design, content, and branding with minimal oversight.
• Develop evaluation criteria based on industry standards and
best practices, modifying these to fit the specific objectives and needs of
the project; rate and rank sites based on findings.
• Lead participatory design/user testing sessions (with
oversight and direction) and identify and document meaningful patterns from
the findings; provide recommendations to the client/internal team based on
findings.
• Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity
prototypes across the different stages of the design.
• Prepare, conduct, and analyze behavioural in-context
research events into meaningful themes, categories, and visually compelling
frameworks and behavioural models (with guidance and oversight).
• Identify opportunities to create business value and improve
the user experience, based on user research; organize opportunities into
visually compelling matrices or maps.
• Execute participatory requirements gathering sessions and
participate in debrief sessions (with guidance and oversight); create
feature lists from sessions.
• Conduct, prepare notes, and analyze stakeholder interviews
to understand key success factors for a project or pursuit.
• Lead development of personas/segmentations based on research
findings; integrate personas/segmentations with related deliverables such
as opportunity maps.
• Create engaging scenarios and develop frameworks describing
key aspects of a proposed experience, and how it reconciles business and
user needs.
• Create visually compelling representations of the solution's
high-level interaction, navigation, and organization design (i.e., concept
models).
• Develop visual representations of the organizational
structure, hierarchy, and relationships of screens in a site (i.e., site
maps) as well as the interactions between the user and the functional
modules in the solution.
• Develop screen details (i.e., wireframes) depicting all
elements on a unique screen type, including the content, functional, and
navigation specifications.
• Estimate, plan, and lead tracks of Information Architecture
work in the development of a quality solution; track progress according to
the plan created for the project (e.g., conduct design reviews and creative
status meetings as needed).
*Job Requirements*:
• Bachelor's degree preferred in design-related discipline:
Interaction, Information or Interface design; Human-Computer Interaction;
Design Planning; Graphic Design; Communications.
• 3-5 years of industry experience.
• Candidates must be versed in user-centered design methods
and techniques.
• Proficient to expert in: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop,
Visio, Microsoft Office.
• Excellent analytical and process-oriented skills.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Prior experience in a consulting firm or agency preferred.
**
*Thanks & Regards*
*A T T Y*
Manager - Recruitment
IDC Technologies, Inc.,
1851 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite 116, Milpitas, CA, USA, 95035,
Contact #: 408-457-9399 Ext: 2026 || Email: [email protected] ||
Web: www.idctechnologies.com
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