UI Designer: User Experience Group
projekt202 LP
Austin, TX, USA

Do you architect screens in your sleep? Design interaction metaphors for fun? Dream of a future where technology is so seamlessly integrated that we don't even notice it? Feel it's your duty as a good citizen to not only point out unsatisfactory product experiences, but to also offer tactful and realistic suggestions for improvement?

If so, you may have found the ideal home here, among your unique kind, at projekt202.

Job Description

The projekt202 user experience designer is a rare bird indeed. This job requires an experienced GUI designer who is also equal parts investigator, crafty strategist, information architect, usability engineer, convincing communicator and all-around problem eliminator.

General Requirements:

2-5 professional years of dedicated GUI-design and product strategy experience, with emphasis on requirements gathering, information architecture and interaction design for software applications (not just informational websites). Portfolio to support.
Experience leading the UX-design stages of software development. Ability to work directly with clients, users, project stakeholders and the projekt202 team to gather requirements, help define the overall user experience strategy, create the interaction model, architect effective solutions using wireframes solutions and prototypes, iterate upon them, and then communicate the details and benefits of the solutions back to our clients.
Concrete understanding of UCD, usability and HCI principles and techniques, especially as related to GUI design for desktop, web and wireless applications.
Amazing analytical skills - ability to identify and communicate clients' usability challenges. Experience performing heuristic evaluations and usability tests, as well as documenting results and translating the findings into design improvements.
Ideal candidate will have broad and/or deep knowledge of the capabilities and constraints when designing for these technologies and media: C++, Java, Web technologies (HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Flash, etc.), mobile technologies (WAP, xHTML, Brew, Symbian, etc.). Please note: This is not a development/coding position.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Human Factors, HCI, industrial design or related area.

Specific Skills and Experience Required:

Experience working from product MRDs
Generative & evaluative user research
Information design & navigation systems
Application workflow diagramming
Wireframing & schematics
Low-fidelity and hi-fidelity prototyping skills (HTML, Flash, Director, etc.)
Excellent documentation skills (functional spec's & UI standards)
Great listening skills and articulate presentation style
Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and often intense project environment
Extreme level of attention to detail

To Apply:

Please send your resume, and links to your online portfolio or digital samples to: jobs@projekt202.com. No phone calls, please.

More about projekt202

We make software make sense. projekt202 believes that technology should make people feel good. We're devoted to changing the human-computer relationship for the better.

We count among our clients some of the biggest and most influential software companies on the planet. Do we do consumer applications? Of course. Do we do business applications? Absolutely -- and we love 'em. And if you've got experience with hardware and software integration, then you'll fit right in.

We offer a casual work environment that recognizes the importance of employee freedom and the kindling of creative fire. In our professional work, we make a point of having fun. Full-time employees enjoy the benefits of competitive pay, excellent health coverage, a generous vacation plan, numerous paid holidays and a happy work experience.