User Interaction Designer

Great opportunity for a sharp User Interaction Designer, UI / UX, to join a growing team and directly impact product applications and User Experience on apps already used by over a million users.

  • Create and design engaging, usable and effective interaction design solutions for web & mobile applications
  • Create multiple concepts that fulfill product requirements, articulate the merits of each concept and make recommendations
  • Create and communicate complex interactions via a variety of deliverables such as wireframes, user flows, or prototypes.
  • Use judgment and quantitative and qualitative research (from working with customers and prospects) to validate designs and suggest solutions
  • Collaborate with product managers, researchers, visual designers, and content developers to optimize for customer needs, business constraints and technological realities
  • Conduct formal and informal usability testing
  • Documenting design decisions and interaction guidelines
  • Work with a diverse team to cultivate ideas and positively influence design direction
  • Serve as an advocate for the end-user
  • Promote consistency across products

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2 years experience in front end web and/or mobile design
  • 2+ years of interaction design experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile, or award-winning web sites or products; preferably experience with SaaS and mobile applications.
  • Familiarity with web and mobile technologies and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions
  • Proficient in design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, Visio etc.
  • Experience with applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research.
  • Experience with Agile development processes a plus.
  • Effective communicator, presenter and negotiator.
  • Strong portfolio available for viewing
  • Minimum BA/BS degree in Human Computer Interaction or Factors and/or Computer Science or Interaction Design related field.
  • Experience in healthcare design a plus

* Note Permanent Residence or US Citizenship is required.

Local Candidates preferred, relocation assistance is not available.
Third party applicants will not be considered and the successful candidate must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug test.

Responsibilities:
Required Skills Interaction Design, web design, mobile design
Optional Skills Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, Visio

Location

Durham, NC
United States
Durham, NC
United States