Schematic, one of the nation’s largest interactive client services agencies is seeking a full-time User Experience Designer to join our team. Schematic provides both design and technology solutions for a variety of platforms including the PC, mobile and television. Our mission is to create simple yet powerful solutions to our clients’ business challenges. Some of our clients include ABC, Fox, GE, MTV, Motorola, and Microsoft. Read more about our company at www.schematic.com.
User Experience Designers work within a team, under the supervision of a Senior UX Designer, to create conceptual frameworks and documentation designed to aid in the development of user-centered design and technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Document functionality, content, navigation, and interaction models through wireframes, site-maps, process flowcharts, content matrices, page description diagrams and other documentation
- Give accurate estimates of the amount of time they require to complete tasks
- Create user personae and use-case scenarios
- Contribute to the development of content/data models, nomenclature and taxonomies
- Apply an understanding of how IA/ID concerns and requirements differ from platform-to-platform (e.g. between the Web, TV, and mobile)
- Facilitate and anticipate the application of Web standards and client-side coding best-practices to interfaces vis-a-vis design and accessibility concerns
- Help identify which client and server-side technologies are appropriate for given projects
Manage deliverable documents, utilizing version and source control
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Graphic or Industrial Design, Computer Science, HCI, Fine Arts, Architecture, Library Sciences or related areas; or equivalent experience
- Must demonstrate a capacity for strategic, conceptual and associative thinking, and the ability to translate this thinking into useful conceptual designs and supporting documentation
- Must have a strong understanding of established Interactive technologies, and curiosity about emerging ones
This is a full-time/regular on-site position.