UI Designer

Title:

UI Designer

Position Summary:

We are looking for a creative UI Designer to help us create, improve, and innovate the user-friendly interfaces that make our products successful.

Responsibilities:

• Part of a design process involving research, experimentation, and revision.


• Incorporate usability testing feedback.


• Elicit constructive feedback and capable of interpreting that feedback into design solutions.


• Perform field research to discover and implement important design details that people may not realize they need.


• Collaborate with others and work well with developers and product management.


• Familiar with Agile/Scum methodology.

Qualifications:

• Ability to solve all sorts of design challenges with creativity, efficiency and precision; a full stack designer (interaction, usability, graphic design, html, css).


• Skilled at building web sites and applications and an understanding of how they work.


• Comfortable designing for web browsing through any device: be it a desktop, laptop, iPad or smartphone.


• Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a fast-paced environment. 


• Excellent communication, both written and spoken English, with both technical and not-so-technical people. Ability to explain why a design works or why it doesn’t


• U.S. citizenship, and eligible to obtain clearance required

Desirable Skills:

• Minimum of 3-4 years of web and user application design experience.


• Able to integrate UX into Agile development practices.  We release working software in 
  short iterations.


• Strong visual design skills: Latest trends, color, typography


• Strong interaction design skills: wireframing, prototyping, HTML5, CSS3


• A passion for semantic mark-up and standards


• Experience in developing graphic assets scalable for mobile devices (e.g. iPhone/iPad/Android)

Salary:

DOE

Location:

Alexandria, VA / Silverdale, WA / Anywhere in the United States