User Experience Designer - Desktop Software

Description

Passionate about designing user experiences; know user interface design standards inside and out; know when to break the rules? Are your designs easy, elegant and delightful? Do you believe that people should just be able to use applications and not have to learn how to use them? Are you ready to take our web services to the next level in today’s design world? Help us turn user research data into world-class web services by assisting product development teams in designing consumer-level applications. Your challenges will include creating concepts, prototypes and graphic design elements as well as helping product teams design workflow and user interactions. Become a UX influence at TechSmith Corporation.

Activities:
* Work with other members of the User Experience Department to ensure that all facets of a users experience are considered – useful, desirable, usable, accessible, learnable, credible and valuable.
* Work with product teams to envision, create and validate user interfaces and experiences for web services and desktop components
* Employ participatory design, creative brainstorming, and other techniques to collaborate with software engineers and other product team members as part of an agile software development process
* Map workflows and user paths, create storyboards, mockups, low and high fidelity prototypes to support development on multiple platforms and browsers
* Design graphics, icons, layout and other visual design elements
* Evaluate designs using user-centered design techniques such as UI reviews and cognitive walkthroughs
* Maintain an awareness of current trends in technology, design and usability