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Visual Designer at Intuit
Jan 31 04
Source: E-mail submission
Visual Designer
Location: San Diego, CA
Date Opened: 09/30/03
Req #: 51107
Primary Responsibilities:
The Consumer Tax Group Design group is tasked with designing the user experience for the TurboTax family of products and services. These include the desktop application and integrated web applications.
Our group creates elegant, appealing, and extensible designs through user-centered design practices. These practices include gathering user needs, setting standards for design development, serving as user advocates on development teams, and performing usability testing for effective design iteration.
Primary Responsibilities & Duties:
* Visual design for desktop applications, browser based features, and online services, including conceptual design, navigation, layout, typography, color maps, graphics, and icons.
* Produce multiple design concepts as well as final production artwork in various styles.
* Generate visual representation of conceptual models.
* Follow established guidelines for design language & visual hierarchy for a variety of products and services.
* Follow visual guidelines and templates to ensure that proposed graphics follow established design specifications.
* Deliver iterations and final graphics in a timely manner to support engineering milestones and changing priorities.
Qualifications:
Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, or equivalent
* Portfolio that demonstrates superior design skills, creativity, and design process
* Min. 5 years design experience
* Min. 3 years Windows desktop software and Internet-related visual design experience
* Min. 3 years as designer in a product development environment
* Knowledge of User Centered Interaction Design processes within a project team setting
* Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver)
* Flash or other vector graphic experience
* Knowledge of icon specifications and tools for desktop, in-product, and web applications
* Experience working with a variety of file formats, both PC and Mac
* Proficiency with current and upcoming OS and browser requirements for various graphics
* Familiarity with marketing as well as aesthetic demands for visual design strategy.
* Knowledge and enforcement of usability principles for visual design.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Additional Desirable Skills:
Illustration skills
Information Design experience
Branding experience
Multi-media, animation experience
Proficiency with HTML, DHTML and JavaScript