UX Designer

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Title: UX Designer                          
Type: Contract- 6 months
Location: Atlanta, GA 30346This design position within the User Experience team will help drive strong brand awareness, customer acquisition, and retention. The designer must be passionate about creating and implementing effective user-centered design. Position requires a high awareness of usability factors that drive user behavior, and business results. The Interface Designer will create E-commerce website and application interfaces for several of our client's brands, mobile and internal business applications.

Client Details: Located in nearly 100 countries and territories world-wide, our client is the world's largest global organization within their industry.  Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, they continue to be on the cutting edge of new technology.  This established and growing organization has been recognized for their superior employee development efforts in Training Magazine's Top 125 for 2010 and remains an industry leader in environmental sustainability making continuous efforts to make an impact on the global environment. They offer a fast paced and high energy environment where your career is destined to thrive.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with the User Experience practice groups, business and technical stakeholders to create innovative accessibility compliant user interfaces
  • Create design briefs
  • Lead design meetings with stakeholders
  • Create comps and overall design direction
  • Create assets (in multiple languages)
  • Create and maintain style guides
  • Produce HTML/CSS/Flash/Presentations/Logos as needed
  • Throughout the life cycle of product development and management stages provide review and feedback to technology and QA teams as needed.
  • Attend and contribute to peer review sessions and team meetings
  • Stay abreast of new techniques, trends and competitive set products
  • Work with other team members to develop standard UI design enhancements, follow and update pattern library
  • Initiate, conceptualize and lead user interface design based on a thorough understanding of client's hospitality service functionality and usability.
  • Communicate user interface design implementation to technology teams in the form of detailed specifications and design documents.
  • Design user interfaces that are consistent with client and brand strategy.

Requirements: 

  • Bachelor's degree required in design-related discipline: Graphic or Interface design.
  • Typically 2-5 years of experience in graphic design/E-commerce user interface design.  Experience in the hotel/travel industry a plus.
  • Demonstrated expertise using graphic imaging and design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, MS Visio, MS Visual Design Studio, etc.
  • Demonstrated ability to create HTML/CSS, Flash interactions, and WCAG compliant design.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of cross-platform cross-browser compatibility and internationalization issues.
  • Demonstrated ability to present and defend design concepts
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects or activities in a dynamic environment.  Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize required.
  • Demonstrated understanding of website and application development cycle processes


Please contact Janna Tucker

Sync is a specialized division of Synergis that serves the needs of leading creative firms, departments and agencies. sync carefully matches creative and marketing talent to a full-time, contract or project positions.
sync's recruiters have been a driving force of the creative and marketing space for over six years. We draw from a wealth of experience with technology staffing, industry best practices and exceptional connections to match candidates with incredible opportunities.

sync/Synergis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Start date
n.a
Duration
Contract- 6 months
From
Synergis
Published at
07.09.2013
Project ID:
595699
Contract type
Freelance
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