(London)
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