Job Description
Graphic Designer/Web Developer
Job Description:
We are looking for a creative Graphic Design guru who can work on our product UI Prototypes. Excellent verbal/written communication in English is a must as this position will be communicating with our head office in California on a daily basis.
Experience:
BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI or related field (or equivalent industry training / experience).
Graduates of NCA, Lahore will be given preference.
3+ years design experience in an information design, user interface design, human factors engineering, user experience, or information architect position.
3+ years of UI design experience in a fast-paced development environment with experience in consumer-specific software or web products.
Familiarity with Agile development
Job Specification
Requirements:
Proven track record developing, delivering and documenting high-quality user interface designs
Demonstrated understanding of fundamental design principles
Extensive knowledge of UI design methodology and processes (user centered and iterative design). Must be able to demonstrate, understand and be proficient in managing all phases of web product design and development.
Must be an effective advocate for the user and be able to successfully drive implementation of feature-sets and interactions that provide an excellent customer experience.
Experience creating user-friendly designs for complex business requirements
Strong visual design skills and experience rapidly prototyping visual design for analyzing large data sets
Awareness of user-centered design principles
Portfolio Submission is required
Confidence in working with strong, passionate, fast-paced team environment.
Contribute to the Style Guide design
Good visual design skills (web color theory, typography, layout) with excellent attention to detail.
Must know how to turn user research and usability feedback into easy to use solutions.
Define, design, prototype, specify, document and maintain the following user interface aspects
Interaction controls and elements
Building blocks
Patterns
Standards and guidelines
Gather, analyze and synthesize UI requirements
Participate in exploring user interface innovations
Contribute to overall project planning
Ability to effectively present design options for review, from concept through final production
Ability to collaborate with all project team members and project stakeholders to ensure the development of consistent, effective, user-friendly systems
Ability to interact with and provide direction to other team members, both in UXE team and wider cross-functional capacity (technology, content, marketing, product development)
Ability to mentor other designers
Ability to build consensus between technology, quality and business groups and justify design decisions
Skills Required: - Photoshop
CSS, XHTML and JavaScript
Dreamweaver
Flash, Flex, etc.