User Experience Design Job Details
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Job Ref:
113581163
Industry: IT
Region/County: Unspecified
Salary: £0 - £235/day
Post Date: 15/02/2012
Job Description: General Responsibilities: Design great user experiences and/or interfaces for websites and related products. Proactively lead medium-size projects and other initiatives, set deliverables and deadlines, and help to drive projects to completion. Lead brainstorming activities, as needed. Define, categorize, and organize content. Create multiple solutions to a single design problem and iterate to a few alternate designs. Create specification as needed, including site maps, flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. Prepare and share project and/or design presentations to the extended Expedia organization. Rationalize design decisions to stakeholders and peers. Support the execution of the Product Development roadmap and other initiatives Provide insights on where user needs are not being met at the feature level Provide recommendations on ongoing product strategy based on qualitative and quantitative data. Coordinate or execute user research efforts, e.g., interviews, usability testing, and surveys, as needed. Requirements: Proven complex related experience. Implements activities that generally impact discrete components and/or processes of the work of own unit, team, or projects. Demonstrated proficiency in several areas of the professional function. Work is subject to supervisory review at regular intervals and operates within the context of defined procedures. Additional Information (Venere)Masters degree or equivalent experience, specializing in design, library sciences, human-computer interaction, ergonomics, computer science or cognitive psychology. Experience in online interaction design or information architecture, preferably e-commerce. Outstanding conceptual design skills. Expected outputs are sitemaps, storyboards, scenarios, personas, flow diagrams, user journeys, user stories, comics, wireframes, low and hi (interactivity) functionality prototypes, content models, user interface specification (state transition diagrams, error validation rules) Knowledge of statistical data analysis Understanding of the product lifecycle (Evaluation/Requirements gathering, specification/design, implementation) and its deliverables Familiar with HTML/CSS Technical grounding in a range of Internet tools and their application. Mandatory to be skilled in the following technologies: One or more of Visio, Illustrator, Axure RP, Microsoft Office Optional: Photoshop, Morae Execute usability best practices and user interface web standards Understanding of web accessibility (W3C WCAG) Enthusiasm for IxD, UX, and IA Amazing attention to detail . Candidates with agile (SCRUM) experience with be given higher consideration Cross-disciplined candidates (IxD with project management, business systems analysis, design research, visual design, design technology and information architecture) will be given higher consideration. Soft skills : Fluent in both Italian and English Ability to effectively resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur. Ability to interact with internal and external peers and/or managers to exchange semi-complex information related to assigned activities. Receives work in the form of short- and mid-term assignments that often require the application of independent judgment. Advantage Technical Resourcing is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.We are an Equal Opportunities Employer, a registered Two Ticks: Positive About Disabled People company and support the Age Positive scheme
Industry: IT
Region/County: Unspecified
Salary: £0 - £235/day
Post Date: 15/02/2012
Job Description: General Responsibilities: Design great user experiences and/or interfaces for websites and related products. Proactively lead medium-size projects and other initiatives, set deliverables and deadlines, and help to drive projects to completion. Lead brainstorming activities, as needed. Define, categorize, and organize content. Create multiple solutions to a single design problem and iterate to a few alternate designs. Create specification as needed, including site maps, flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. Prepare and share project and/or design presentations to the extended Expedia organization. Rationalize design decisions to stakeholders and peers. Support the execution of the Product Development roadmap and other initiatives Provide insights on where user needs are not being met at the feature level Provide recommendations on ongoing product strategy based on qualitative and quantitative data. Coordinate or execute user research efforts, e.g., interviews, usability testing, and surveys, as needed. Requirements: Proven complex related experience. Implements activities that generally impact discrete components and/or processes of the work of own unit, team, or projects. Demonstrated proficiency in several areas of the professional function. Work is subject to supervisory review at regular intervals and operates within the context of defined procedures. Additional Information (Venere)Masters degree or equivalent experience, specializing in design, library sciences, human-computer interaction, ergonomics, computer science or cognitive psychology. Experience in online interaction design or information architecture, preferably e-commerce. Outstanding conceptual design skills. Expected outputs are sitemaps, storyboards, scenarios, personas, flow diagrams, user journeys, user stories, comics, wireframes, low and hi (interactivity) functionality prototypes, content models, user interface specification (state transition diagrams, error validation rules) Knowledge of statistical data analysis Understanding of the product lifecycle (Evaluation/Requirements gathering, specification/design, implementation) and its deliverables Familiar with HTML/CSS Technical grounding in a range of Internet tools and their application. Mandatory to be skilled in the following technologies: One or more of Visio, Illustrator, Axure RP, Microsoft Office Optional: Photoshop, Morae Execute usability best practices and user interface web standards Understanding of web accessibility (W3C WCAG) Enthusiasm for IxD, UX, and IA Amazing attention to detail . Candidates with agile (SCRUM) experience with be given higher consideration Cross-disciplined candidates (IxD with project management, business systems analysis, design research, visual design, design technology and information architecture) will be given higher consideration. Soft skills : Fluent in both Italian and English Ability to effectively resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur. Ability to interact with internal and external peers and/or managers to exchange semi-complex information related to assigned activities. Receives work in the form of short- and mid-term assignments that often require the application of independent judgment. Advantage Technical Resourcing is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.We are an Equal Opportunities Employer, a registered Two Ticks: Positive About Disabled People company and support the Age Positive scheme
