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Last.fm: Interaction Designer (Web)

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Purpose of Role

Last.fm is looking for a passionate designer who is excited about joining the web team to improve, iterate on, and design new features for Last.fm’s flagship product: www.last.fm. 

Responsibilities

Engage with the webteam to ship great product end-to-end: from initial concepts and research all the way through to pixel perfect interfaces.

  • Provide holistic design thinking and strategy across the website to inform new and improved user experiences.
  • Make use of data (such as Omniture, internal web stats, A/B testing results etc.) to inform your design decisions
  • Seek feedback on the usability of your designs through (but not limited to): conducting formative testing/research, user observation, and mining forum feedback
  • Turn your ideas into reality using the best tool for the job, including (but not limited to): sketches and drawings, wireframes, storyboards, animations, mock-ups and prototypes
  • Engage with web developers (in their language) to solicit ideas, and devise solutions to overcome challenges of different browsers; screen sizes and fluid layout; multiple languages; as well as varying UGC data cases
  • Design (and do production for) visual assets including (but not limited to): layout, typography and icons
  • Help define and document on-going internal website guidelines for consistency and effective re-use of components on the front-end

Skills and Experience

Essential:

  • +3 years work experience as an interaction designer
  • Familiarity with modern web standards and limitations for front-end development (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript)
  • Proficiency in candidate’s chosen design tools (e.g. Adobe CS)
  • Strong communication and presentation skills

Desirable:

  • An avid user of digital/online music products
  • Familiarity with user testing
  • An understanding of Agile (Scrum methodology)
  • Ability to write ‘micro’ interface copy
  • Familiarity with Omniture
  • Knowledge of IAB standards and web advertising
  • Experience sourcing and working with freelancers
  • Experience outside web, ie: desktop, mobile, hardware, gaming

Education and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s (Honours) degree or equivalent in Design

 The kind of person we're looking for

  • Creative, with an unstoppable passion for making things
  • Committed, with an obsession for better user experiences
  • Empathetic, with users and team-members alike
  • Pro-active; with a knack for moving along projects
  • Positive; with amicable optimism
  • Open, transparent and nonexclusive about information
  • Naturally curious, holding an inquisitive lens to the everyday

Apply: Send at jobs@last.fm: - 3 pieces of finished work (preferably live URLs) - 2 pieces that show your process (ie. wireframe, flow diagram, sketch) - Indicate your role and the team size for each piece - Your CV - ?Interaction Designer? in the subject line of your email application

Source: Authentic Jobs


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