User Experience Designer

This position has been filled.

Itching for an opportunity to work in an environment where design really matters? Here's your chance. From the beginning, Primal Fusion has understood the critical role that product design will play in the success of our business. We're now looking for another designer to help us conceptualize and sweat the details of our web applications' user experience.

Responsibilities

• Imagine new opportunities to hit the sweet spot, that place where our products delight customers while fulfilling our business goals.
• Develop a deep understanding of our customers' motivations and behaviours through user research methods such as field studies.
• Lay the groundwork for new products by analysing workflows, crafting mental models and personas, writing scenarios, and sketching storyboards.
• Design the form and behaviour of our products by creating prototypes of increasing fidelity and detail, from concept sketches to wireframes to interactive simulations.
• Improve your craft by subjecting your work to rigorous assessment, including usability studies, A/B testing, and web log analysis.
• Help to further elevate the practice of design at Primal Fusion.

Requirements

• A passion for design. Design thinking isn't something you turn on and off — it's how you think all the time.
• An entrepreneurial and energetic spirit. This is a startup environment in which things move quickly; you’ll have the opportunity to wear many hats.
• Demonstrated experience in designing elegant and highly usable websites and web applications.
• A proven understanding of why, when, and how to create artifacts that support the design process, such as workflow diagrams, mental models, personas, scenarios, sitemaps, and wireframes.
• Strong visual/graphic/information design skills for highly interactive online products.
• Experience in communicating design requirements and shepherding products through the development process.
• Expertise with Adobe applications such as Fireworks or Illustrator.

Bonus points for any of the following:

• Ability to code in CSS+XHTML, Javascript, or Flash.
• Experience in designing for large-scale consumer web applications.
• Experience in conducting usability studies and A/B testing.
• Strong written communication skills, especially for web copy.
• Post-secondary education in Design.