Senior UI/UX Designer
Job Summary
Currently seeking a Sr. User Interface and User Experience Designer for an industry leader in Chicago. This individual will be working on challenging projects to address the needs of internal and external customer.
Responsibilities
- Create first-rate, user-centered designs through consideration of market research, business requirements, customer feedback, and usability study findings.
- Translate business requirements into use cases and high-level customer experience requirements.
- Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes.
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and style guides.
- Work closely with product management and technical architects to ensure that UI designs align with the business strategy and technical solutions chosen for each product and service.
- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, executives, and external partners for review and feedback.
- Follow department quality assurance guidelines and processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working as senior designer with a track record of defining interaction design on large-scale web, mobile and/or desktop applications.
- An impressive UI design portfolio showing your working experience.
- Strong knowledge of Adobe suite of products (Photoshop, Fireworks, InDesign, Illustrator).
- Experience prototyping rich interactions.
- Experience with designing interactive applications (not just pure content web sites).
- Working knowledge of color theory, visual design and typography.
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, and Flex.
- The ability to turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups quickly.
- Experience conducting usability/contextual research and the ability to show how results from this research influenced the user interface.
- Strong ability to work and converse intelligently with fellow User Experience Designers, Product Managers, Business Managers and Application Architects/Engineers.
Recruiter Information
Angela Semmen – Executive Recruiter
asemmen@htassociates.com
My Profile: http://htassociates.com/recruiters/angela-semmen/


