User Interface Designer

You’re welcome to apply, but we’ve moved from “actively looking” to “always interested”. Given the work involved in a sincere application it’s probably worth getting in touch before spending hours tuning your portfolio and crafting your approach.

— Matt, 2011-08-03

Tasks

  • Designing innovative user interfaces based on user research and design standards
  • Building low fidelity and functional user interface prototypes
  • Creating of wireframes, sitemaps, information architecture and interaction patterns of excellent usability
  • Quality control for technical deliverables, making sure the interaction matches the initial concept
  • Work closely with development team/Contribute to the culture of innovation and teamwork and be passionate about UX; Share new ideas and UX insights

Skills

  • Ability to manage competing interests and conflicting demands
  • High level of initiative
  • Critical thinker with a good design sense, a strong technical background, and an eye for making things better
  • Best practice and understanding and experience with HTML and CSS
  • Tertiary qualification in Human Factors, Design, User Interface Design or related field is highly desirable

Why work here:

  • We have a small team managed by engineers
  • We rotate as a team between a wide variety of projects: no one gets stuck as a 2nd-class citizen on a legacy project
  • We are constantly experimenting with new tech: recent projects have used Backbone, Coffeescript, Chef, etc
  • 20% time for (amongst other things) your personal self-improvement
  • We contribute back to projects we believe in like Less Wrong, Overcoming Bias, and the Khan Academy
  • Casual, open working space with flexible hours

What we do:

  • Internal web projects
  • Projects from our larger business group (Investling)
  • Client projects, generally in the web space.

Next Steps:

Contact jobs@trikeapps.com with:

  • Three usability issues you find on http://www.melbourne.com.au/ (keywords are enough, this should not take more than 5 minutes to do).
  • Your resume.

Last modified: Friday, August 26, 2011