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UI Designers, AOL Product Group
Mar 11 04
Source: SigIA List
The AOL Product Design group has a need to fill several UI design positions at different levels, including fulltime, contract and project work. We are looking for people in both the Corporate Headquarters in Dulles Virginia and in our California Development office located in Mountain View California.
We are looking for people who demonstrate the following skills:
• Requires the ability to critically review user interface designs from a usability perspective
• Possesses thorough understanding of research practices and HCI design principles and applies them in innovative ways (i.e. rapid prototyping techniques, paper prototyping, concept mapping, card sorting, task analysis, scenario development, use case development, ethnographic research, personas creation, object modeling)
• Identifies, addresses and solves complex user interface design problems
• Possesses strong diagramming and screen layout skills and is able to create hi-level product flows, navigation maps and screen layouts with little to no direction from senior designers.
• Possess excellent understanding of AOL style guidelines, design process and studio workflow
• Possesses increased proficiency in industry standard UI design software
(Visio, OmniGraffle, Illustrator, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Acrobat)
• Can lead brainstorming and ideation sessions to generate innovative solutions to complex design problems
• Not afraid to question problem definitions and reframe problems to address the underlying issues
• Ability to visualize and model complex concepts, workflows and navigation systems
All positions require experience and understanding of the software design process and web application development. Flash experience a plus!
If interested please email James Canfield, (jacanfield at aol.com) Director of UI with letter of interest and a current resume.