Senior UI Developer/UX Designer

The Skyjunxion UX/UI Designer should have strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user experiences. The candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. Candidates should excel at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design engagement. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must!

Responsibilities
- Turn ideas into presentable concepts and translate those concepts into design recommendations that achieve simplicity, despite the inherent complexity of processes being supported
- Produce standardized, best-in-class UX deliverables including information graphics to elucidate user research insights, navigation, and user interfaces with sitemaps, paper prototypes, wireframes, user flows, specifications and screen mockups as needed
- Work closely with product owners, business analysts and customer experience to understand use cases and user needs
- Define user experience and user interface for existing products and new features
- Deliver best-in-class HTML5/CSS3/JQuery front-end code across a broad array of interactive web and mobile projects. Leverage the latest responsive design techniques to design a full-featured experience on mobile devices
- Develop and test across multiple browsers, platforms, and devices, including smartphones and tablets
- Help establish and grow UI infrastructure, including libraries, shared stylesheets, etc.
- Research interaction design trends

Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, multimedia engineer or related design field
- 3+ years of hands-on UX design and UI development experience for web applications which leverage emergent technologies and mobile devices
- Extensive experience in designing and creating web user interfaces with focus on workflow and usability using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax and Single page programming
- A well-rounded UX/UI professional who connects the dots between business’ needs, innovation and good design
·Experienced at driving a user experience from start-to-finish that delivers results, connects emotionally
- Obsessed with good user-centered design practices and have an eye for detail
- Experienced at creating and revising information architecture documents and diagrams including but not limited to: content diagrams, content maps, wire frame diagrams, comprehensive diagrams and static prototypes
- Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools

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Head of Web/Interactive Services - Signals Design Group - Canada

Signals is looking for a self-motivated individual to lead our growing interactive practice. This is a leadership position in a successful Vancouver design consultancy that offers creative, print and interactive services. Signals is known for bringing clarity to complex issues and the ideal candidate shares our interest in tackling meaty, challenging and important subject matter.

- You live and breathe the web and are able to identify and articulate the best solutions for our clients.
- You have agency experience and are comfortable working with our creative director and design team.
- You are knowledgeable enough to get sites built efficiently either with our in-house developers or outside partners.

Email a cover letter introducing themselves and indicating salary expectations, a resume, and links to recent work to:
Kosta Tsetsekas, Principal
kosta@signals.ca

Interaction Designer (Arabic fluent) - Google - Zurich

We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're passionately interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. The User Experience team is a critical driving force behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We are a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, copywriters and Web developers who collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create innovative, usable, great-looking products that people love to use.
The role: Interaction Designer, Arabic

As a UI Designer, you will work closely with engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the product cycle. You are a critical thinker with a good design sense, a strong technical background, and an eye for making things better. Interaction Designers work on projects that have an impact on the web experience of millions of Google users.

Responsibilities
- Helping to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
- Developing high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Gauging the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.

Requirements
- BA/BS with solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field preferred (BS or MS in Computer Science or related field a big plus.)
- Demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces.
- Expert HTML and CSS skills.
- Excellent knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes.
- Strong, clean visual design sense.
- Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
- Fluent in Arabic

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