Visual Designer - User Experience

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You will be a member of the User Experience team at e-Builder. Your top priorities will be to ensure that the products that we deliver are useful, easy to use, and aesthetically pleasing. e-Builder works within a user-centered design methodology where we conduct user research to understand our customers and then apply that understanding to design effective products that are a joy to use. You must be an advocate for the user and successfully implement designs that provide an excellent user experience. A tangible, well-grounded sense of interactive design with respect to creating simple, elegant, aesthetically pleasing interfaces based on usability principles while balancing these principles with a commercial orientation.

You will bear primary responsibility for the visual design facets of the e-Builder product suite, including wireframes, design comps, iconography, and incorporation of branding. Additionally, you will be part of a team that has the opportunity, challenge, and responsibility for creating style guides, wireframes, page flows, information architecture and user interface design for the entire e-Builder product suite. A deep knowledge of design trends related to web applications and user centered design methodologies is imperative.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the look and feel exploration, conceptual and visual development, and final execution of design direction for e-Builder's Web-based, iOS, and Android applications.
  • Create  simple, elegant, aesthetically pleasing visual design based on graphic design and usability principles. Represent user, business, and market requirements.
  • Take wireframes and produce visual design deliverables such as design compositions, interactive prototypes, and visual style guides that adhere to the overall product style, applying standard user-centered design guidelines and techniques.
  • Partner successfully with development teams, product management, strategic marketing, and customers to design and validate designs for e-Builder products.
  • Keep abreast of and incorporate (as appropriate) usability and design best practices, developments, and trends.
  • Champion user-centered design principles throughout the company.

  Other Responsibilities

  • Other responsibilities may include other aspects of the overall user experience for e-Builder's suite of products, including user research, user interface and interaction design, and usability testing
  • Design and document web application user interfaces and interactions, applying standard user-centered design guidelines and techniques.
  • Create design deliverables such as product style guides, wireframes, page flow diagrams, and design mockups.
  • Plan, conduct, and analyze results from general and targeted user research campaigns.
  • Conduct usability testing and other usability evaluation practices to validate design.

  Requirements

  • BS/BA in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, Graphic or Interaction Design
    • Minimum 3 years direct experience designing customer facing cross-platform web-based software products
    • Strong knowledge and understanding of the  respective and combined strengths and weaknesses of Internet and web development technologies such as HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, cookies, browser security settings, AJAX, and Web 2.0 technologies.
    • Strong skills in rapid prototyping and iterative design using paper prototypes and design tools (e.g. Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Axure)
    • Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audience at various levels of the organization.
    • Able to work effectively in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
    • Able to influence others to sell design.
    • Able to work with development to implement designs.
    • Able to design work around or within software/hardware/platform limitations.
    • Willing to travel up to 20% throughout the US and Canada.
    • Must demonstrate an online portfolio with a range of interactive samples

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