The Economist is looking for a user experience architect with a confident and critical design sense who cares deeply about current affairs, who understands the impact of user-centred design on storytelling and who can make complex ideas and problems simple and clear. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment with developers, product owners, and editors throughout all stages of product development.
You should have...
? Experience as an architect on the launch or redesign of a large, consumer-facing web site
? A complete grasp of tools and concepts applied to all stages of product design -- user and business requirements gathering, translation via storyboards, mockups, wireframes and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
? Good oral and written presentation skills
? Fluency in gauging the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change
? Experience applying user-centred design in an agile environment
? Excellent team skills
? A university degree in HCI or related subject, or equivalent training
? A good theoretical and practical grasp of interaction design issues, and of the continually evolving vocabulary of interaction and UI design, and an ability to explain this simply to others
Having the following is a plus...
? Designing news applications and/or information-rich interfaces
? Designing social interfaces
? Web application and tools design
? Taxonomy design
? Designing and developing interactive charts, maps, and interactive information visualizations
? Strong HTML, CSS and JSS skills for prototyping![]()
Source: Boxes and Arrows