User Interface Designer

Company Cap Gemini
URL www.capgemini.com
Location Pune, India
Experience 5-12yrs

I. Principal accountabilities

1. Create site architecture documentation including interaction models, site navigation, information structuring, labeling, and searching systems and translate into visual experiences to offer insights on technological impacts.
2. Provide design direction and act as a mentor to Senior and UI Designers.
3. Create, design and deliver effective, intuitive and pleasing user interface design mock-ups with one or more diagramming and design tools including Visio, Adobe Photoshop, or equivalent programs.
4. Maintain an awareness of current trends in technology, design, eBusiness, marketing and financial services to identify opportunities to enhance the experience design of interactive products and services.
5. Multi-task, manage and act as creative mentor on larger, more complex projects including taking ownership of creative scheduling, deadlines, deliverables, quality control and art direction.
6. Foster a collaborative creative environment by sharing critiques and participating in project and team brainstorming sessions.
7. Observe, understand, and translate research (field observation, contextual interviewing, task analysis, usability testing, competitive analyses, industry trends, social trends, stakeholder interviewers) to uncover customer and business needs and define visual context of project.
8. Understand what users of web-based products need and want to do in the context of those products. Design interfaces for those products that best serve the users' needs while balancing the needs and expectations of the business.
9. Communicate with and offer refinements to the business requirements if out of synch with research of user needs.
10. Create material for user testing (paper prototypes, electronic click-through prototypes, live system testing, etc.)
11. Evaluate and translate research findings into actionable insights and user interface improvements.
12. Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with HSBC and regulatory standards, policies and practices; report control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational loss events.
13. Complete other related duties as assigned.

II. Knowledge, skills & abilities

This position requires an individual with:

1. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Interactive/Multimedia Design, Graphic Design, Studio Art, Human Computer Interaction, or related area
2. A minimum of five years experience creating and developing experience design solutions for high-traffic dynamic interactive products or services as well as experience with e-commerce design.
3. Experience in product and application design in a consulting environment preferred.
4. The ability to multi-task, prioritize and consistently meet deadlines; a strong understanding of HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, major graphic design applications, and digital media editing software and standard office productivity applications.
5. Strong oral and written communication skills; good analytic and problem solving skills; an understanding of user-centered design principles; knowledge of industry best practices and standards; and a professional communicator inside and outside the design team.
6. Knowledge of personalization, customization and content management systems preferred.
7. Must present a portfolio that demonstrates a strong understanding of and passion for experience design and graphic design principles.

To apply

Contact: reena.shivankar@capgemini.com