GM/Detroit, MI
Senior Mobile User Interface Designer-INF0001679
The General Motors GoMobile Application Development team within IT is responsible for delivering both Internal Facing (Enterprise) and External Facing (Consumer) mobile apps. The UI/Human Factors specialist will work in a team of business product owners, developers, and engineers to develop concepts and iterate over user stories for mobile applications using the agile development methodology.
The position is responsible for creative UI Design, must be comfortable designing for the most well-known automotive brands in the world. The UI Designer will provide the end-user with the best possible experience, regardless of whether the project is internal enterprise or external customer facing. Applicants must have strong Graphic Design and Usability background with an understanding of all the major mobile OS visual/UX paradigms (including mobile web). The candidate should also possess a technical disposition, as well as confidence when speaking about design and usability to a broad range of people within an interdisciplinary team environment. Experience with Agile Development Methodologies is a plus, the ability to bring innovative solutions to seemingly mundane problem statements is a must. The candidate will be responsible for gathering and processing project requirements, ideation and conceptual problem solving, developing wireframes and prototypes of your own (as well as others) concepts for development adoption, contributing input throughout the development cycle, and also creating production-quality graphic components where needed.
Major Duties/Responsibilities
• Work with Business Analyst and Business Product Owner using Waterfall or Agile requirements gathering
• Evangelize a clear vision of the style and standards, working as a user advocate throughout product planning and delivery
• Conduct ongoing primary and secondary research and incorporate resulting insights into your user experience vision
• Design world-class products that empower and delight customers and propel our business
• Provide a multitude of concepts and designs in low fidelity to review with business customer
• Provide revised concepts in high fidelity to business customer to further refine the final product
• Work collaboratively with mobile development team to clearly explain concepts and requirements on which the design was based
• Be able to work with agility and flexibility to meet the changing customer needs and / or requirements
• Actively document user interface design standards and guidelines
• Conduct front-end analysis, interviewing, focus groups, requirements gathering
• Use storyboarding, user scenario development, high-level use case definition, user and task analysis, to capture and develop user requirements and integrate elements into user interaction designs.
Qualifications
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- A current portfolio exhibiting exceptional ability to design mobile user interfaces with a focus on user-centered design and optimization for mobile form factors
- Demonstrated extensive experience in the visual design of consumer mobile applications is preferred
- Adaptation and creation of branded graphic assets for mobile applications
- Proven experience visualizing and designing mobile applications for smartphones (Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone) and tablets (iPad and Android)
- Ability to produce, adapt, modify high quality graphics for mobile applications in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to create innovative designs and user interactions that enhance and simplify the user experience including but not limited to navigation, flow, information architecture, human factors
- A passion and drive to create an exceptional mobile user experience through successive iterations of concept, critique, refinement until the ultimate design is conceived
- Experience with designing an engaging user experience with touch, voice, gesture, swipe, pinch, zoom, inertia, fade, etc. to animate or to otherwise create interactive models
- Experience with all media types: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, Video, Flash, AVI, MPEG and their utility in mobile applications
- Expert user of Adobe Creative Suite 5 or later, Experienced in iRise or similar prototyping tool
- Experience with all mobile platforms: Titanium, PhoneGap, native iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry
- Web graphic design (buttons, icons, and other graphics)
- Expert knowledge of CSS3, HTML5 and cross browser requirements
- Demonstrated ability to incorporate user-centered design principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces
- Skilled in user & task analysis, user research techniques, storyboarding, information architecture and wireframing
- Fluency in web accessibility and compliance.
- Comfortable in a fast-pace environment, working across multiple projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrate written and oral communications skills and the ability to articulate ideas effectively
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong communication and conceptual skills
- Proficient at project management skills (e.g. project planning and estimating)
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines
Education/Training
Bachelor's degree in a creative discipline preferred or equivalent experience required.
Marketing/Advertising agency experience is desirable.
Experience
5-7 years in the business environment
Primary Location: US-MI-Detroit
Posting Date: Oct 2, 2012, 4:12:16 PM - Ongoing
Job: Information Technology
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