iPad Visual Designer
You are a talented designer that knows the mobile ecosystems inside and out. You're passionate about native iPad applications. You have ideas spilling out of your head for design simplifications, improvements, and additions to the user experiences affecting millions of people. Your design work is clean, focused, and inspiring to others.
You will work with Product and Engineering teams to create beautiful interfaces that facilitate what users want to do, and delight them along the way. You will conceptualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues of a real time communications and information network.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain design wireframes, pixel perfect mockups, and specifications
- Translate requirements into concepts and elegant user experience and interaction design
- Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
- Collaborate with other designers where overlap between product areas and features naturally occur
- Work within brand guidelines and product requirements under tight deadlines and delivery of design handoffs to engineering
- Visualize complex sets of data in ways that are easy to comprehend
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong visual design skills, including an eye for good typography, composition, and use of color
- Ability to prototype your work using iOS (initially focused on iPad) components
- Understanding and experience with capabilities of HTML5 in the context of native mobile apps
- Extensive experience developing consumer and/or commercial web application interfaces
- Proven track record and a passion for designing compelling user experiences
- Solid intuition of best practices and tools used in user-centered interaction design
- Fluid ability to design in Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq and Illustrator
- Experience in creating various prototype methods and knowledge of best practices
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize projects, and communicate progress and expected milestones
- Active social network user
You'll Do Even Better With
- Experience in online game or social/mobile app design
- Prior experience designing and building native and commercially successful iPad applications