UI Designers

Jobs for Humanity • Pontiac, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Company Folders, Inc. is looking for a full time, UI/UX - User Experience / User Interface Designer. We are looking for someone who has education, training, and experience in building sites based on user experience. The candidate will be a self-starter who can work independently defining, creating, and optimizing our websites. He or she will be working on our website's design and user interaction team. This includes defining requirements, wire-framing, creating mock-ups, and helping code in HTML and CSS. This person will be testing designs in certain phases of the process and will analyze and optimize the designs that make it into our production site using tools such as website optimizer. He or she will be expected to work with our graphic designers, web writers, merchandisers, and software developers, to deliver solid website user experiences.

Requirements

• Self-starter - candidates who can jump in quickly without a lot of direction, and learn by asking the right questions.
• Minimum of 2 years of UI/UX design experience for the web.
• Knowledge of usability, human factors, and the UX process.
• Experience with Adobe design tools.
• Experience with XML, HTML, CSS, AJAX.
• Experience/understanding of Microsoft design/development tools (Visual Studio/Expression)
• Be familiar with website optimizer
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to describe problems and solutions in a concise and objective manner

Responsibilities

• Be the advocate/point-of-contact for questions regarding our user personas
• Collaborate with software teams, writers and merchandisers on design & development of websites
• Identify user requirements and translate it into design solutions
• Create UX deliverables (wire-frames, work-flows, prototypes, etc.)
• Run/manage usability tests
• Develop and deliver front end-design assets (graphics, XML, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript etc.)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees