Interaction Designer [User Experience & Design]

As a Designer you will work collaboratively with Developers and Information Architects to determine the user experience across multiple platforms. Working on a variety of projects you will propose solutions that balance user need with business goals and technological capabilities. An understanding of how and why people use products must drive you. You will propose solutions to problems that excite and enthuse the audience.

Other responsibilities include:
• Solve interaction design problems using analytical and creative methods.
• Provide expertly crafted documentation of a nature appropriate to the problem.
• Advise and help conduct user research, when required.
• Promote the discipline of interaction design within the COMPANY as a whole.

Requirements

Understand when to apply a variety of interaction design techniques appropriately to solve specific design problems.

Be proficient in crafting interaction design documentation: Persona, scenarios, wireframes, competitive analyses, flows, and conceptual maps.

You will offer unbounded creativity and an obsessive attention to detail with a keen eye for typography, colour and layout.

You're a natural with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign in fact, you’re constantly picking up new technical skills as and when the need arises.

You’ll have an exceptional portfolio - from sketches and wireframes through to polished visuals and concepts. Ideally you’ll have worked across web, mobile, games consoles or TV.

Along with key design skills you’ll also offer a new dynamic to the team. Flash and motion graphics are highly desirable you might even be a 3D, HTML 5 or CSS guru.

You'll be able to keep lots of plates spinning (metaphorically) and you’ll be able to juggle the needs of the business with the needs of the user often championing the best experience for our audiences.

You’ve got a hard-earned bachelor’s degree in design or a related subject or the equivalent on-the-job experience and exceptional communication skills are a must you’re an expert at winning friends and influencing people.

Key competencies

Planning and Organising – You are able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for yourself and others. You follow through to ensure that quality work is achieved within time and budgetary constraints.

Communication – You are able to get your message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.

Analytical Thinking – You are able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into their component parts. You translate analysis into practical action plans.

Imagination/Creative Thinking – You are able to come up with creative solutions using existing or new ideas in a novel way. You can transform creative ideas / impulses into practical reality.

Influencing and Persuading – You are able to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. You can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.

Decision-Making – You can identify objectives and take responsibility for making rational decisions, rendering judgements and taking action following a logical evaluation of the facts to meet end goals.

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Interaction Designer job description