Title: Interaction Designer (All levels)
Status: Full-time and Freelance opportunities available
As an Interaction Designer you will work closely with Product Managers, Visual Designers, Design Researchers, Information Architects and Engineers. You will be responsible for providing interaction design leadership for key components of MySpace user experience.
Responsibilities:
•Lead interaction design throughout the entire product lifecycle, from initial explorations through final design deliverables such as use cases, task flows, user interface elements, and prototypes
•Translate usability and field research findings into design improvements
•Being accountable for the user interaction model, workflows, information architecture, schematics, and interface guidelines
•Communicate design strategy and rationale to key stakeholders
•Collaborate with other MySpace product teams to develop cross-product solutions across MySpace and the ability to work well in a user-centered agile design process
•Contribute to a culture of innovation and teamwork.
•Drive the process of turning product ideas into visualizations and refining product direction through design
•Practice various interface design visualization techniques such as personas, concept models, process diagrams, use-case models, mood boards, storyboards, wireframes, functional specifications, site maps, etc.
Requirements:
•At least 5 years experience as a key member of a design team participating in the complete product development life-cycle of successfully launched consumer and business software products
•Proficiency with XHTML/CSS/JavaScript Web technologies
•Strong analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills
•Strong empathic skills--understands how and why an interface succeeds or fails and can spot likely problems in flow, layout, copy or presentation before they go into production
•Values strong visual design and pays fanatical attention to the details that make the difference between a mundane and a delightful user experience
•Able to quickly understand the constraints of a design problem, identify the tradeoffs and communicate them to decision makers and fellow designers
•Able to create testable paper prototypes and high-fidelity static prototypes
•Able to work independently as well as in teams that span multiple functions and/or departments and works well under pressure
•Able to adhere to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
•Able to engage in any software product design project and make a strong positive contribution
•College and/or advanced degree. (s) in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, HCI, Computer-related Design, Computer Science, or equivalent
Please send portfolio URLs & resume to elke.gallo@fox.com
- Location: Beverly Hills, CA
- Compensation: DOE
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