Interaction Designer
Location: Calgary
Type: Full-time
Our Client develops and markets construction project management software for North American retailers and both commercial and residential developers. The company’s flagship product is a modern, web-based solution deployed in companies of all sizes, from two of the world's largest retailers to local and regional land developers across Canada, the United States and Mexico. Their clients use the software to manage their design, construction and remodeling projects from start to finish, to standardize their business processes, streamline communications and bring dispersed project teams together, realize substantial cost savings, and ensure faster project delivery. In addition, our Client’s product is the only software solution that supports the “greening” of construction, by giving retailers and developers tools to manage their sustainability initiatives and ensure compliance with key environmental regulations. Our Client’s software is currently trusted by over 23,000 users to manage over $12 Billion US in construction projects and 6.1 million documents.
As an Interaction Designer, you will help drive the design process for new products and features, as well as improving existing ones. You are a critical thinker with a strong design and technical background and a knack for improving things.
Major duties and responsibilities:
• Helping to define and refine the user interface for new and existing products
• Being a primary advocate for users and the user experience
• Developing and maintaining user interface standards specifications
• Creating both high level and detailed storyboards, user flows, mockups and prototypes
• Evaluating and constantly improving the usability of new and existing products
• Understanding user needs and designing to meet or exceed them
Experience and skills in the following areas are required:
• An academic background in HCI, interaction design, product design, industrial design, graphic design or a suitable combination of relevant education and/or proven professional experience
• Minimum 2 years in an Interaction Designer role (or similar)
• Strong understanding of usability and accessibility concepts, web standards and user-centered design principles in web-based interfaces
• Creative ability to leverage user interface design conventions in new and exciting ways
• A strong clean visual design sense
• Keen attention to detail, thorough and organized
• A technical skill set that supports rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player with excellent critical thinking skills
Beneficial:
• Experience in ACAD or construction software
The pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the rewards are exciting! Get in on the ground floor of one fastest growing companies in Alberta, where you can really make a difference!
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