Are you a UI Designer?
Do you dream in wireframe?
Have you been known to passionately debate whether the OK button belongs on the left or the right?
When we say “polar bear book” do you know what we mean?
Then we need to talk.
AOL’s Experience Design Group is looking for User Interface Designers to join our New York and Virginia teams. If you are the UI star we seek, you will join a team of exceptional designers that strive to create perfection in even the smallest user-interaction, and help create some of the top content websites and applications on Earth.
A little more about you:
You will be a champion of user experience, usability best practices and standards. You will work with product groups to shape product requirements and then transform those requirements into concrete wireframes and functional specifications. You love teams and collaboration. Tight deadlines don’t ruffle your feathers. You thrive on working with the industry’s top design and development talent, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin. You think great Information Architecture is sexy. You know what Web 2.0 means and are already looking into what comes next.
On your resume we will see things like:
- Identifies, addresses and solves complex user interface and information design problems by providing multiple viable solutions.
- Possesses expert diagramming and screen layout skills and creates hi-level concept maps, navigation maps and wire frames.
- Collaborates with other disciplines to define the vision and requirements for a product or programming area.
- Possesses thorough understanding of industry standard applications/technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, Flash and Publishing Systems.
Demonstrates proficiency in industry standard UI software such as Adobe Illustrator, Visio, Omni Graffle, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.
- Reviews competing products and recommends design solutions that differentiate the company’s products from those of competitors.
Works with business owners, producers, technology personnel, designers and researchers on specific projects to create final interface features.
- May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation, and task and objective analyses.
Education/Experience:
Directly related experience in designing online and consumer software product interfaces. The level of design position you qualify for will of course be influenced by the years of experience and education you have. EOE.
Please note that this is not a graphic design position. Photoshop designs do not meet the requirements listed above. All applicants must be able to show samples of user interface diagrams, wireframes, specifications or flows.