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User Experience Designer, San Carlos, CA | 70-85k

OSS

San Carlos, CA, USA

Full-time, permanent position.

Job description

My client delivers highly-customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, instructors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. These solutions are delivered through specialized content, applications and services that foster academic excellence and professional development, as well as provide measurable learning outcomes to its customers. They are revolutionizing how students learn. They create online, interactive learning solutions that increase student effort and engagement in their high school and college courses. They have helped 1,000,000 students at more than 1,300 institutions since product inception in 2002 and are looking for eager and like-minded individuals to join our brainy, creative, and lively group!

The User Experience Designer will do it all: GUI design, prototypes, wireframes, design specifications, design goals, information architecture, user research. You will interact daily with engineering, product management, and marketing teams to produce the objectives, style, and detailed design of our customer facing sites for administrators, professors, and students.

Job qualifications

Specific Responsibilities:

* Lead the design effort from conceptualization through implementation including translating user requirements into highly usable web applications in partnership with other UX designers, engineering, and product management
* Design wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate the user experience of features to internal stakeholders and project team members
* Produce high quality GUI elements and ensure aesthetic quality of interfaces
* Conduct user research and informal usability studies of prototypes and existing products
* Create, document, and evangelize new user interface guidelines, libraries, and standards
* Ensure a consistent look and feel, and experience across the applications
* Contribute to a consistently high standard of user-centered design across products

Basic Qualifications Required:

* Bachelor’s degree in HCI, design or related discipline
* Minimum 2 years user experience design
* Proven experience designing customer facing interfaces
* Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices
* Must have experience creating prototypes using Fireworks and Photoshop
* Experience researching and creating user workflows using Omnigraffle or Visio
* Knowledge or familiarity with user research, usability testing
* Excellent visual and oral/written communication skills
* Passion for and demonstrated knowledge of user-centered design

Preferred Qualifications:

* Master’s degree in HCI, design or related discipline
* Additional software/platform experience: Flash, Mobile
* Experience with use cases, user stories, and other documentation
* Industry experience (education technology, elearning, online publishing or similar)

How to apply

To be considered, please submit your resume and preferably a portfolio as well along with your salary requirements to beau-AT-open-source-staffing.com

Posted

Wed Aug 26, 2009
(54 weeks ago)

Expires

Sat Oct 10, 2009
(in 336 days)

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