The Brief
You will be designing the way in which people buy hardware products from Skype online.
This involves imagining new features and improving existing functionality. You will create conceptual designs to illustrate new ideas and design detailed mock-ups and user flows as part of the final design specification. If you are inventive, creative, enjoy imagining experiences, and have a good sensibility towards users, you will enjoy the role. In fact, you probably will have fun doing this.
You will be expected to understand the products we make, the way people think and enjoy conversations, and to design features that will delight users and enrich their experience.
Pre-requisite Knowledge, Skills and Experience
We are looking for people who are creative and passionate, but also detail oriented and able to complete a specification on time. You will at times be expected to create a vision of a new product based on loose ideas, and at times you will need to take a very detail-oriented approach to fix flaws in existing flows.
You would have studied one of the following: HCI, interaction design, cognitive science, visual arts, or product design and may have had experience of working in an internet or mobile company, did a master’s in one of the above disciplines, designed consumer products, obtained a PhD, or shown your work in an art gallery/museum. In general, your background should have a strong creative/bent, and it should show you have a deep understanding of people’s emotions/thinking processes.
Qualifications
- Graduated with relevant degree in Product Design: HCI, UI design, interaction design, cognitive science, computer science, visual arts, or product design.
- Industry experience: solid background in designing for e-commerce.
- Knowledgeable in discipline: Competent in user-centred design methods, such as UI widgets, affordances, mental models, user testing, visual layout, etc.
Desirable functional / technical skills
- Experience with localisation/internationalisation
- Experience conducting user studies and usability testing
- Experience designing user interfaces for mobile or embedded hardware products.
Personal attributes / competencies
- Focused: Entrepreneurial, creative, ability to execute, detail-oriented.
- Resourceful: Ability to multi-task well, flexible, manages their time intelligently.
- Collaborative: Works well with others, team-player.
Other
- Permanent staff of Product Design team
- Located in London
- Might have to travel, but infrequently
Ref: USAB-DES-HAR
