We are seeking an enthusiastic, customer-obsessed, skilled designer to support the growth and development of Amazon's Digital Music store. This role will be responsible for designing the UI architecture, usability, interaction flows, and visual design of new and existing applications and experiences.
We're looking for a designer to create elegant, customer-focused interfaces while meeting business teams' needs and collaborate with a team of passionate product managers and developers.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design of useful, usable, and desirable user interfaces in a team environment
- Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
- Use business requirements and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
- Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
- Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns
- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and Amazon.com executives for review and feedback
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, visual designer (with some UE experience), or similar role
- A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with product managers and developers for implementation of designs
- Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
- Ability to define, articulate, evangelize, and integrate the role of design within an organization
- Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently
- Fluency in best practices for web-based design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for the web
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver
Preferred skills and experience:
- Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or Flash
- Familiarity with the technical considerations involved in designing for mobile
- Experience designing mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications
- Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
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We're looking for a designer to create elegant, customer-focused interfaces while meeting business teams' needs and collaborate with a team of passionate product managers and developers.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design of useful, usable, and desirable user interfaces in a team environment
- Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
- Use business requirements and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
- Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
- Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns
- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and Amazon.com executives for review and feedback
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, visual designer (with some UE experience), or similar role
- A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with product managers and developers for implementation of designs
- Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
- Ability to define, articulate, evangelize, and integrate the role of design within an organization
- Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently
- Fluency in best practices for web-based design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for the web
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver
Preferred skills and experience:
- Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or Flash
- Familiarity with the technical considerations involved in designing for mobile
- Experience designing mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications
- Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
Source: Joel On Software