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full time User Experience Designer

at Go Recruitment in Vancouver

Position: User Experience Designer
Company: Go Recruitment
Date Posted: June 10, 2008
City: Vancouver

Job Description:

User Experience Designer

Our client ACL Services Ltd (www.acl.com) is the global provider of Business Assurance Analytics to the audit and controls professions and the financial management community.
ACL is a true Vancouver success story. They've been in business for over 20 years and have a strong international customer base. Their software solutions are delivered in multiple languages in more than 130 countries to over 170,000 licensed users through a global network of ACL offices and channel distribution partners.

With a growing international demand for ACL's products and services, they're looking for talented individuals to add to their team. ACL is one of the top employers in Vancouver. They have a strong commitment to relationships and value each member of their team. If you want an employer who will provide opportunities to develop your skills, further your career, and achieve your goals than continue reading ...

Are you passionate about creating the best possible user experience? The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong sense of design in respect to creating simple and aesthetically pleasing interfaces based on user-center design principles. You will be responsible for all stages of user experience design throughout the product lifecycle ensuring a compelling look and feel that meets branding, business and user requirements (spanning user interface, interaction and visual design).

Responsibilities

• Working closely with a cross-functional team to assess product requirements, the designer will translate requirements into concepts and user design. This will include understanding interaction models and user task flows, and will require creation of screen designs, and UI details to promote ease of use and to optimize the user experience.
• Organize these design details into a full user experience design specification to be used as an iterative blueprint for development.
• Take responsibility for the user interface style guide.
• Work closely with product management to better understand the user by testing the usability of features and conceptual designs
• Have a good understanding of execution to influence a rich user experience for a global market.
• Be self-motivated and able to make logical decisions to ensure the overall success of the project by creating designs that seamlessly address customer and business concerns and objectives
• Keep abreast of current design tools, techniques and methodologies
• Be willing to challenge traditional design thinking and look for new and innovative ways to approach design projects and improve streamline the user experience

Requirements

• Have practical experience employing user centered design methods. Experience doing so in an agile environment would be an asset.
• Degree in user interaction/interface/human factors or similar field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of professional software development experience required
• Demonstrated experience designing user interfaces that have been released to customers
• Proficiency in several of Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/Fireworks, Macromedia Director/Flash/Dreamweaver, HTML, Adobe Flex, AJAXwireframe tools or similar UI tools. Experience with Morae or equivalent logging tools would be an asset.
• Ability to respond and deliver quickly in an extremely fast paced environment

Response Information:

If you have a passion for creating the best user experience than we'd love to hear from you! Please forward your resume and cover letter to: maryann@gorecruitment.com Please include the job title in the subject line of your e-mail. If you have any questions please reach Maryann at: 604.317.1718.

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