Interaction Designer

Description

About Pixar:

Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation. Creator of some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and most recently, WALL-E. The Northern California studio has won 21 Academy Awards® and its nine films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The next film release from Disney/Pixar is UP (May 29, 2009).

Summary of Position:

The Studio Tools department is responsible for Pixar's in-house movie production software. This software has been used to make the Academy Award-winning films The Incredibles and Finding Nemo.

The Studio Tools user interface design group is looking for a talented Interaction Designer to create world-class designs for advanced animation and movie-production systems. This position is part of a small design team, which works collaboratively with the Director, developers and end-users to design and build powerful graphics software.

The ideal candidate should be fluent in the theory and practice of designing user-centered systems and have a well-developed software literacy that includes a thorough understanding of GUI conventions across a variety of platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Work with user interface design team to develop new ideas and alternate solutions to design problems.
- Iterate at a quick pace in a Feature Team with members from the Engineering, QA and Documentation teams.
- Create and communicate designs in the form of storyboards, mock-ups, or specifications.
- Research common workflows of users in Production and develop interface solutions to optimize their tasks.
- Create prototypes when necessary to test new interactions and gestures.
- Understand and execute on the creative vision of the Director.