Information Architect, Visio, User Experience Consultant / UX

  • Reference: 3724b
  • Location: UK
  • Salary / Rate: Market Rates
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Sector: General IT
  • Date Posted: 22/02/2010
  • Information Architect, Visio, User Experience Consultant / UX

    Essential Skills and Experience:

    3+ years of professional experience as an Information Architect, User-Experience Architect, or Interaction Designer
    Agency experience preferred
    Ability to lead user-centered design initiatives from inception through implementation
    Ability to collaborate with designers, strategists, managers, and developers
    Ability to communicate design rationale to internal team as well as clients
    Ability to address user needs in the context of business goals, branding, and requirements
    Extensive experience in information design and user scenarios
    Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    Ideally you'll be used to working with major brands and producing top notch solutions. You'll also need to be equally at home producing wireframes, site maps and planning content solutions. Experience with Axure would be advantageous.

    To apply you'll be a well versed user experience / IA professional with proven experience under your belt, as you'll be based on site you'll need to be comfortable in a client facing role. It may be that you've set out in life as a creative, developer or project manager however you'll have turned your focus to IA for at least three years.
    As the User Experience Architect/Information Architect you will work across a wide variety of digital channels and projects you will maintain an optimal user experience through:
    - Competitor Analysis
    - Requirements Gathering (developing workshops, interviews, and meetings to capture, analyse and develop requirements).
    - Scope definition
    - Functional Specifications
    - Pitching

    Position Responsibilities:

    - Design, lead, and analyse user research and usability testing initiatives
    - Develop personas and scenarios to inform the design process
    - Develop user flows
    - Create content hierarchies, site maps and navigational models that are aligned with the defined, and/or expected, user experience and business requirements
    - Create wireframes that illustrate site layout, navigation, controls, and content prioritization. Axure experience advantageous
    - Articulate user experience issues and concerns and overall design principles to team members and clients
    - Translate complex concepts into interactive experiences through the design and/or implementation of Web site architectures
    - Collaborate with designers on visual comps and provide input from an information architecture perspective
    - Focus on user centered design principles and uses these elements as foundation for design solutions and informational approach
    - Consult on any changes to information flow


    We are looking to fill this role asap, please apply now supplying your CV, examples of clients / projects

Consultant Details

  • Consultant Name: James McPherson
  • Telephone: +442072563546
  • Email: Send email
 
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