UX Designer

To Apply: DesignJobs@RocketFarmStudios.com

Date Posted: Thursday August 19, 2010

Company: Rocket Farm Studios

Location: Cambridge, MA

Overview
Rocket Farm Studios is an App Design and Development Company focused on creating innovative apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. We're looking for talented User Experience Designers to help us define and design exceptional user experiences and interfaces on a per project basis. Having a flare for Visual Design is a big plus.

We're a startup that likes to have fun along the way to creating beautiful, usable, and high performance Apps. Please visit us at: www.RocketFarmStudios.com.

Responsibilities
Always represent the voice of the user or customer. Define and design user experiences and interfaces that meet both business and user needs and goals: Information Architecture, interaction designs, user interfaces, wireflows, functional designs, UI prototypes, and documenting UI requirements.

Desired Background
• Enjoys working in a collaborative design environment and bouncing ideas around.
• Desire to work with a fast growing startup where you can help to create fun, usable, and exceptional App experiences.
• Considers yourself both a Designer--problem solver and a technical thinker.
• Experience with identifying and addressing complex user interface and information design problems by providing multiple viable UI solutions that marries the business and user goals.
• Extremely proficient with diagramming workflows, user interfaces and concept models using the Adobe Creative Suite and wireframing tools such as OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, or similar.
• Collaborates with Key Stakeholders and Project Team Members on a per project basis to drive and define the UI and UX product requirements.
• Define personas or user groups to drive product user scenarios and requirements.
• Execute user research and usability testing as needed.
• Possesses an understanding of industry standard applications/technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Flash.
• Design portfolio a must.