Product Design·Confirmed live in the last 24 hours·
Full-timeIllinois, USANo salary listedIn-person
About the Job
Requirements
Strong knowledge of the design process and ability to work with the project leader to generate and understand user and business requirements.
Strong understanding of technical constraints and user experience best practices in mobile and web technologies.
Strong ability to estimate or scope the design portion of project engagements.
Experience planning and leading internal design initiatives.
Strong organizational, presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
Attention to detail, flexibility, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Leverage the account brief and collaborate on a unifying vision for the user experience, brainstorm creative concepts with the team, and develop original design concepts.
Mentor junior talent and help further define the user interface practice.
Quickly create conceptual comps to demonstrate ideas.
Design for mobile applications on iOS and Android and maintain familiarity with the technology behind the design.
Apply design as an iterative process, respond constructively to critique, and explore alternative approaches.
Communicate design rationale to internal teams and clients.
Communicate solutions through models, wireframes, documentation, or prototypes to clients and the team.
Present work to clients for feedback, and defend design decisions when appropriate.
Work with or without strong client brand guidelines and with full or templated wireframes; collaborate with front-end developers to bring designs to life.
Define and prototype end-to-end user experiences, including user workflows, layouts, and specific user experience screens and components across web, mobile, and social interfaces.
Produce responsive or adaptive layouts where appropriate.
Collaborate with technical teams on implementation.
Adhere to and apply design guidelines.
Help maintain design quality throughout all project phases, including quality assurance and revision with other team members.
Desired Qualifications
Take a strategic perspective based on insights gathered from the field to assess the impact of design on the business, brand, or strategic experience.
Overview
The Interaction Designer is a creative problem solver and storyteller that delivers insights about people and behavior - verbally and visually – to generates empathy, emotion, and engagement from the client and design team. The Interaction Designer will have a natural skill to engage with people at a deep level. Whether observing or interviewing customers, or working with fellow team members and clients, the interaction designer should be passionate about representing the human perspective in design and should have skills in bringing this passion to life for the team.
The Interaction Designer applies user-centered design processes to develop engaging experiences while working collaboratively with customers and cross-functional teams including management, research, and engineering.
Responsibilities
Leverage the account brief and collaborate on a unifying vision for the user experience, brainstorm creative concepts with the team, and develop original design concepts
Possess the maturity and experience needed to mentor junior talent and help further define our UI practice.
Quickly create striking conceptual comps to demonstrate ideas
Have significant experience designing for mobile applications (iOS & Android) and be familiar with the technology behind the design.
Be passionate about design as an iterative process and be flexible enough to weather critique and explore more than one way of doing things.
Be able to clearly communicate the thought behind your design to internal teams and clients.
Clearly communicate solutions in the form of models, wireframes, documentation, or prototypes to the client and team
Have experience in presenting work to clients for feedback, but also know when to gently push back and defend your work.
Have flexibility to work both with and without strong client brand guidelines, full or templated wireframes, and with front-end developers to bring designs to life.
Take a strategic perspective based upon the insights gathered from the field to assess impact of design on the business, brand, and/or strategic experience are desirable
Define and prototype end-to-end user experiences, including user workflows, layouts, design of specific UX screens and components to create engaging, interactive experience across web, mobile, and social interfaces
Produce responsive and/or adaptive layouts where appropriate
Collaborate with technical teams on implementation
Adhere to and apply design guidelines
Assist with maintaining the quality of design throughout all phases of the project, including the QA and revision process with other team members
Qualifications
Strong knowledge of design process and ability to work with project leader to generate and understand user and business requirements
Strong understanding of technical constraints and UX best practices, in mobile and web technologies.
Strong ability to estimate/scope the design portion of project engagements
Experience in planning and leading internal design initiatives
Excellent organizational, presentation, verbal and written communication skills
Detail-oriented, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment