As a member of our User Experience (UX) team, you will collaborate with visual design and tech teams to create compelling websites, as well as other units using our user-centered design process. As a member of this agency, you will be forced to think outside the box. Where the box is probably not a box – but most likely a small room packed with creative geeks.
While you have a keen eye for, and are up-to-date with, visual design and understand the importance of aesthetics from a usability perspective, you value structure and sound interaction principles over the latest trends. You know that in order to break rules and standards, you must first know them. You have a wide range of prototyping tools in your toolbox, ranging from comfortably sketching with pen + paper to wireframing and more elaborate interactive prototyping. Which tools you use are less important, but if you use Omnigraffle for wireframing, and Flex/Flash (AS3) for prototyping you’ll have plenty of co-workers to ask for help.
Part from the extensive list below – people around you will more or less take for granted that you are nice, smart, open minded, hard working and someone to rely on when the team is travelling in warp 14.1 – but also that you’re someone who’s available to sit down and discuss just about anything.
Responsibilities:
- Research and prioritize user requirements and functional requirements.
- Develop information architectures and taxonomies for web-based applications and sites.
- Conduct usability roasts in order to identify opportunities for improving information architectures and interaction patterns.
- Prototype navigation models and interaction designs for demonstration internally as well as to clients.
- Document and communicate design and function specifications.
- Perform usability testing of proposed designs.
Qualifications:
- Structure, method, and a desire to simplify interaction/work flows are your cornerstones in everything you do.
- A degree in a relevant field (Cognitive Science, Technical Communications, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, Industrial Design).
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- High tolerance for undefined requirements and ambiguous briefs (and a matching desire to structure and organize them).
- A desire to work in a highly creative and collaborative environment.
- Deep understanding of usability heuristics and principles – and a documented experience of applying them successfully.
- Knowledge and experience of rapid wireframing.
- Knowledge and experience of (at least rudimentary) prototyping of interactive flows.
- Work samples/portfolio including sitemaps, wireframes, user flows is a must.
- The ability to clearly communicate ideas, decisions, and reasoning to a non-technical audience is vital; because lets face it, you’re a new breed of thinker and we are counting on you to lead the way and make it as accessible as possible.
Send your application to job-ux@cpbeurope.com
