User Experience Designer
User Experience Designer
Lime Company seeks an experienced User Experience Designer for its upcoming music service. Lime Company is currently developing a revolutionary new music service that will feature a desktop media player, mobile applications, and a web-based music experience for downloading and streaming. Launching in late 2010, it will create an unmatchable experience for digital music consumers.
The User Experience Designer will follow a user-centered design process, understanding real users – their goals, aptitudes, experiences, needs, and motivations. In this role you will approach design from a user-perspective and balance users' needs alongside business goals and technical capabilities. You will be working closely with product managers, software developers and web designers to determine necessary features and drive the design of products. The ideal candidate will have experience conducting user research, extracting requirements, designing an interaction framework, iterating on your framework, and presenting your ideas to development and management.
Responsibilities
- Working across product, development, and design teams
- Designing the layout and sequencing for a clear narrative
- Developing functional specifications
- Advocating for user needs
- Observing and measuring user behavior
- Developing creative interaction design idioms that are easy to learn
- Working with one of the development teams as a ‘Product Owner’
Qualifications
- Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, CS, or related field
- 3+ years experience directly in UxD
- Experience developing innovative visual and temporal vocabularies of action
- Experience designing online systems using user/task/goal/functional analyses, story boards, paper prototyping, user testing, and an iterative design model
- Practical knowledge of user research methods, including lab-based usability studies, field studies, and usability inspections (heuristic evaluations or cognitive walkthroughs)
- Excellent analytical ability, especially with regard to observation of user behavior
- Self-motivated, critical thinker with strong technical background
- Curiosity, imagination, intuition
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Experience designing for desktop and/or mobile applications a plus
- Knowledge of digital music services a plus
- Knowledge of Agile process a plus
