Information Architect

Company:	Q-Industries Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (9)
Job Location(s):	Washington
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	Immediate
Starting Salary Range:	Competitive
Required Education:	Open
Required Experience:	4 to 20+ years
Related Categories:	IT - Internet/Web Development, Graphics and Industrial Design

Position Description

Description:

Create clean and concise wireframes, use cases, site maps, flow diagrams, screen prototypes and other artifacts to describe the intended user experience

Participate in project scope & definition and review activities with project managers and business stakeholders

Visualize concepts quickly and cleanly through sketching and other rapid prototyping methods

Define site architecture and navigation that serves as a blueprint of the site upon which all other aspects are built

Moderate and prepare documents for usability tests, including test plans, scenarios and questionnaires

Participate in user studies to understand user behaviors/preferences and build, from this understanding, informed user interface solutions

Participate in formal and informal design critiques

Work collaboratively with designers and developers to develop interface functionality

Scope, develop and understand development / engineering leads to determine efficacy of a given solution

Participate in quality assurance checks during production

Create and document functional specs based on user interaction and wire frame development Requirements:

Bachelor’s, Masters degree or equivalent work experience in HCI, Information Architecture, design disciplines (industrial, graphic, instructional, architecture), or other relevant field

4+ years of experience as either an Information Architect, or a member of an interactive design team.

Highly demonstrable skills creating user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, screen prototypes and functional specifications

Working knowledge of User Centered design principles and practices

Ability to research, understand and organize specialized content

Experience working on large, complex sites

Experience and/or interest in mentoring others

Excellent writing, speaking, presentation and interpersonal skills

Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Visio, Word, and Photoshop

Solid understanding of HTML & CSS