User Experience (UX) Architect

Chicago, IL  ‐ Onsite
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AKTA Web Studio is looking for a UX Architect to join our team of designers, strategists and architects to help with client-facing application design.  AKTA works with a broad spectrum of clients from high profile start-ups to publicly traded companies on UX design projects.  We work within the space between product strategy and interaction development. 

Job Purpose: Work with external customer, users, and AKTA strategy and design team members to test, analyze, and implement successful user experiences.

Key Result Areas:

  • Gather requirements by talking to users/stakeholders and rapidly creating wireframes that represent the concepts being discussed. Help direct discussions to conceive and later validate UI concepts and metaphors.
  • Conduct usability testing and analysis of web applications, mobile applications, tablet applications, and desktop applications
  • Conduct front-end UI analysis, interviewing, user/task analysis
  • Create high- and lo-fidelity prototypes with prototyping tools (pen and paper, Axure, Illustrator, etc) and test with users

Functional Expertise:

  • Experience testing web, mobile, tablet, and desktop applications
  • Gather and documenting detailed user requirements
  • Capable of thinking at a conceptual level and identifying unifying UI metaphors
  • Experience mentoring and reviewing the work of outside consultants and vendors and working collaboratively to develop IA/UI artifacts
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to articulate complex concepts and research results to a diverse audience
  • In-depth knowledge of User Testing, Human Factors, User Centered Design Processes, Interaction Design guidelines, Usability Methodologies, industry standards and trends, platform standards, and the software development process. Equally important is an innate sense of how people perceive and interact with software
  • Strong desire to learn and develop additional skills and expertise over time

Behavioral and Interpersonal:

  • Conduct user testing without bias

Apply:  http://akta.recruiterbox.com/jobs/10840

Please, no recruiters!


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From
AKTA Web Studio
Published at
26.09.2012
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Project ID:
425890
Contract type
Freelance
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