Position Description:
Full time, on-site position for a web designer in IT organization responsible for the design, development, and creation of user-centered designs for web sites. The position requires the ability to work independently or as a part of a team under general supervision. May coach and mentor more junior technical staff.
Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities will include human factors engineering, heuristic evaluations, and usability testing for web and client-based applications as well as metrics setting, and monitoring designed to assess the usability of the web application.
- Will work to improve the usability, usefulness, and desirability of web sites in collaboration with Graphic Designers, Product Managers, Engineering Staff, and other Web Designers.
- Must be able to perform usability tests, provide design prototypes, and provide ad hoc user interface consulting.
- Responsible for requirements gathering and articulation of user interface issues - including development of page/site prototypes.
- Must be knowledgeable of user-centered design methodology, user scenarios, usability testing, storyboarding, paper and interactive prototypes.
- Must have demonstrated skills in graphic applications, HTML development tools and other applicable authoring tools, web production, front-end development using programming and scripting languages.
- Must be able to integrate design into program rules and system architecture and create innovative approaches to improving the enduser experience.
- Must be familiar with platform/browser compatibility and basic usability issues. Ability to work independently or as a part of a team under general supervision. May coach more junior technical staff.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Graphic Design, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- 3 to 5 years of combined IT and graphic design experience