Mid-to Senior-Level UI Designer
AOL Community, Mountain View, CA, USA

The AOL Product Design group has a Mid-to Senior-Level UI Designer position in our California Development office located in Mountain View California. This is a FULL TIME position.

This person will be responsible for working with the AOL Community group and should have a good understanding of the community-based arena (Chat, Blogging, Message Boards, etc).

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other UI Designers on a suite of next generation Community products for the web.
• Become an integral part of the project team to lead the UI for a product vertical.
• Create wireframes, use cases, interaction flows, design specifications, and interaction models using an HTML tool (Dreamweaver) or other interactive design tool.
• Assess/research target member behaviors, and create members’ experience accordingly.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years of interaction design experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to work with various interdisciplinary team members at various levels.
• Perform quick heuristic evaluations.
• An understanding of both Web and Windows UI Standards.
• Ability and drive to learn and understand research practices and HCI/User-Centered design principles and apply them in innovative ways ~ (i.e. rapid prototyping techniques, paper prototyping, concept mapping, card sorting, task analysis, scenario development, use case development, ethnographic research, personas creation, object modeling).
• Identify and creatively solve complex design problems .
• Proficiency in industry-standard software (Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver a plus).
• Working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and other web technologies and tools.
• Can lead brainstorming and ideation sessions to generate innovative solutions to complex design problems.
• Visualize and model complex concepts, workflows and navigation systems Experience with shipping products, and cross-platform design experience is preferred.
• Flash or other dynamic/interactive prototyping experience is a plus!

Important Additional Information

To Apply:
Please send resume in Word Format with a link to your portfolio if available:
jennagarcia00@aol.com

**May also have contract roles available**

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