Lead User Experience Designer (UX)
- Recruiter
- ORCHARD
- Location
- North East England
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 30 Sep 2014
- Closes
- 20 Oct 2014
- Sectors
- Graduate & Internship, Sales Graduate
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
This company is one of the worlds most recognisable brands, it has operations in over 50 countries and territories and has around 48 million customers. Today the design office has grown into a multi-disciplined in-house team of over 150 people working across the brand, it effectively operates like an agency with a startup culture.
Due to the innovation of new and exciting products the company are now creating a new design team to iterate and develop award winning services and products which are already used by millions of people globally. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a creative and talented team working alongside inspirational developers and creative minds.
You will be part of an interdisciplinary team of designers (Interaction (UI), User Experience (UX) and Visual) working collaboratively alongside developers and product owners to create and deliver live releases as part of the continuious development and deployment of various apps.
You will inspire other User Experience Designers with a hands on direct contribution to creating and shaping the user experience.
You will help understand, develop and capture new features/utility that form each development release.
Work closely with developers to ensure user experience intent (UI/UX) is translated into the UI.
You will be designing across iOS, Android and Windows platforms, ensuring customer and business requirements are translated into beautiful, engaging, functional and usable user interfaces and service.
Requirements:
Masters or Degree in a Design discipline such as Graphic, Interaction, Product, Industrial, Digital Design.
Extensive experience of leading user experience designers working on mobile applications and services.
Previous experience of designing and launching mobile applications for at least one of the following platforms, iOS, Windows or Android.
Ideally a portfolio of world-class award-winning work.
Previous experience of designing other digital services and presences highly desirable e.g. websites, responsive design, software.
A deep understanding of the end-to-end design process with a broad spectrum of hands-on skills including user interviews, storyboarding, facilitating workshops, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
Experience of working with agile, lean and iterative development processes.
Experience of using iterative prototyping and user testing to inform and refine interaction designs.
Experience of implementing brand guidelines.
Due to the innovation of new and exciting products the company are now creating a new design team to iterate and develop award winning services and products which are already used by millions of people globally. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a creative and talented team working alongside inspirational developers and creative minds.
You will be part of an interdisciplinary team of designers (Interaction (UI), User Experience (UX) and Visual) working collaboratively alongside developers and product owners to create and deliver live releases as part of the continuious development and deployment of various apps.
You will inspire other User Experience Designers with a hands on direct contribution to creating and shaping the user experience.
You will help understand, develop and capture new features/utility that form each development release.
Work closely with developers to ensure user experience intent (UI/UX) is translated into the UI.
You will be designing across iOS, Android and Windows platforms, ensuring customer and business requirements are translated into beautiful, engaging, functional and usable user interfaces and service.
Requirements:
Masters or Degree in a Design discipline such as Graphic, Interaction, Product, Industrial, Digital Design.
Extensive experience of leading user experience designers working on mobile applications and services.
Previous experience of designing and launching mobile applications for at least one of the following platforms, iOS, Windows or Android.
Ideally a portfolio of world-class award-winning work.
Previous experience of designing other digital services and presences highly desirable e.g. websites, responsive design, software.
A deep understanding of the end-to-end design process with a broad spectrum of hands-on skills including user interviews, storyboarding, facilitating workshops, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
Experience of working with agile, lean and iterative development processes.
Experience of using iterative prototyping and user testing to inform and refine interaction designs.
Experience of implementing brand guidelines.