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E-Commerce Usability and Interface Designer


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Company Aquent
Location Philadelphia, PA
URL www.aquent.com

Description:

Our Client is a well-known consumer package goods company in Montgomery County, PA. The client is eager to bring on a few top-notch E-Commerce professionals.

There are several positions that are scheduled to start right away and run 3-6+ months.

Responsibilities:

  • In this role you will work with software engineers and business analysts to design, document and deliver timely user interface designs.
  • Work with customers to gather usability requirements, present designs and prototypes, conduct onsite and offsite usability studies, capture feedback, and maintain credible relationships.
  • Understand the user base, the products, and their interaction; be able to identify problem areas and create innovative solutions that improve the user experience.
  • Demonstrate the ability to create rough drafts, wire frames, click-throughs, prototypes, and to apply standard usability engineering principles as part of the software development lifecycle.
  • Consistently produce aesthetic, well-organized, grammatically correct, highly usable designs, and maintain a high level of consistency in designs, corporate branding, and look and feel.
  • Demonstrate team skills, effective communication, open-mindedness, and creativity during brainstorming exercises, design sessions, and other collaborative efforts.

Other requirements:

  • Minimum 5 years recent UI design and usability engineering experience with both THICK and THIN client applications developed using (but not limited to) Java, C#, C++ and HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
  • Familiarity with UI development and design tools such as Visual Studio, Visio, Acrobat, and DreamWeaver, and such graphical tools as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
  • Proven ability to design user interfaces that work from both a development and user standpoint; highly reliable, with minimal oversight; an eye for design; an aptitude for usability.
  • Extensive experience with usability studies, application design, development and deployment.
  • Solid understanding of and experience in e-commerce, web design and development using standards such as HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and AJAX.
  • Bachelor's degree or above strongly preferred.

To apply

Please contact Joe Rinaldi at jrinaldi@aquent.com if interested.

View online job description here

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