Experience Architect
Chicagoland
Creative & User Experience /
Full-time /
Rocket Wagon is looking for an Experience Architect (UX/IA) to join our team of designers, strategists, developers, and architects and help with client-facing application design. Rocket Wagon works within the space between product strategy and interaction development and with a broad spectrum of clients, from high-profile startups to publicly traded companies on UX design projects ranging from mobile devices to web applications.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside strategy team to define target audiences' needs, tasks and goals and translate them into creative information architect concepts
- Collaborate with strategy and visual UI design teams to brainstorm and validate experience design concepts
- Participate in user research, concept testing and usability testing
- Understand and utilize usability guidelines and design patterns
- Organize content into logical categories; and develop structural designand establish the foundation of information access and functional relationships at the site- and page-level
- Produce site maps, application maps, workflows, functional specifications and interactive or static wireframes to communicate architecture and experience
- Contribute to overarching UX strategy, by identifying how the proposed application architecture, features, functionality and navigation reflect the strategy and audience objectives
- Keep abreast of trends and best practices in interactive design, rich media and information design; share these lessons with team members and management
- Provide competitive analysis of IA and functional design, as appropriate
- Guide and be a resource for other information architects in their project roles
Qualifications
- A minimum of 5+ years experience in Web and mobile application architecture design for interactive mediums (e.g., information architect, interaction designer or experience designer)
- Advanced knowledge of architecture software programs (e.g., Axure, OmniGraffle, InDesign, Illustrator and similar)
- Experience building and rapidly iterating on interactive prototypes
- Experience thoroughly annotating and documenting wireframe designs
- Range of concepting ability, from sketching to high-fidelity prototypes
- Expert-level familiarity with design patterns for mobile, tablet and Web
- Excellent organizational, presentation and verbal and written communication skills.
- An extremely detail-oriented and flexible mindset, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules (and while juggling multiple projects)
