Interaction Designer
Full-Time — Austin, TX
We are looking for motivated designers who are passionate about exploring, experimenting, and implementing new approaches in information visualization, user experience design, and the coordination of perspectives on data for the support of our products and services. As an Interaction Designer on our team, you will contribute to different team discussions about design ideas, concepts, and software development. You should be able to handle constructive feedback during design iteration, translate designs into digital assets, and work along side programmers during integration.
Responsibilities:
- Translate requirements into concepts and elegant user experience designs
- Deep thinking
- Work with large structured and unstructured data sets
- Visualize complex sets of data and relationships in ways that are easy to comprehend
- Develop conceptual designs and representations (stories, scenarios, mock-ups and prototypes)
- Able to pick a place to go to lunch
- Assess the perspectives of prospective users (understand their understanding)
- More deep thinking
- Collaborate with other designers and programmers where overlap between areas and features naturally occur
- Work closely and iterate quickly with other teams throughout the organization
- Must like music and nerf warfare
Requirements:
- Extensive understanding of data visualization principles
- Ignores extensive understanding of data visualization principles and experiments
- Propensity to play video and board games
- High-attention to detail in typography, color, spatial composition, visual hierarchy
- Strong conceptual thinking skills to translate abstract ideas into well-defined form
- Experience working with datasets
- Strong verbal and visual communication skills
- Experience working alone and in a team to explore the design of interactions