Are you a UI Designer?

Do you obsess over error rates?
Do you secretly count the number of times you are forced to go from keyboard to mouse?
Have you ever created a task flow to streamline your morning routine? ("Oh, coffee comes after I let the dog out...")

Then let's talk.

AOL's Experience Design Group is looking for a UI designer with a decidedly human-factors bent to join our New York team. If you are the UI star we seek, you will join a team of exceptional designers that strive to create perfection in even the smallest user-interaction. You will specifically create real impact on the bottom line for the AOL Programming organization by streamlining our publishing workflow and dramatically improving the usability of internal tools.

A little more about you:
You are an expert at creating task flows and reshaping those flows and the products behind them for optimal human performance and great task–completion times. You will be a champion of user experience, usability best practices and standards. You believe in getting the product right for the people who will be using it, and love to slash features that get in their way. You will work with product groups to shape product requirements and then transform those requirements into concrete wireframes and functional specifications. You love teams and collaboration. Tight deadlines don't ruffle your feathers. You thrive on working with the industry's top design and development talent, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin.

On your resume we will see things like:

• Identifies, addresses and solves complex user interface and information design problems by providing multiple viable solutions.
• Possesses expert diagramming and screen layout skills and creates hi-level concept maps, navigation maps, task flows and wire frames.
• Collaborates with other disciplines to define the vision and requirements for a product or programming area.
• Possesses thorough understanding of industry standard applications/technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, Flash and Publishing Systems.
• Demonstrates proficiency in industry standard UI software such as Adobe Illustrator, Visio, Omni Graffle, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.
• Reviews competing products and recommends design solutions that differentiate the company's products from those of competitors.
• Works with business owners, producers, technology personnel, designers and researchers on specific projects to create final interface features.
• May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation, and task and objective analyses.

Education/Experience:
Directly related experience in designing online and software product interfaces, be they consumer facing or internal company tools. The level of design position you qualify for will of course be influenced by the years of experience and education you have. EOE.

Please note that this is not a graphic design position. Photoshop designs do not meet the requirements listed above. All applicants must be able to show samples of user interface diagrams, wireframes, specifications or flows.

Interested UI Designers should submit their resume/portfolio to:
Milissa Tarquini, Director of UI and IA, Email: Milissa.Tarquini@corp.aol.com

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