UI Designer

Applied Technical Systems; Silverdale (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Technical Systems is seeking a creative UI Designer to craft and refine user interfaces for our products. You will participate in research, experimentation, and revision, and collaborate closely with developers and product management.

You will turn usability feedback into design solutions, design responsive websites and applications for multiple devices, and integrate UX into Agile development while championing semantic markup and web standards.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of web and user-application design experience.
• Able to translate feedback into practical design solutions.
• Experience building responsive websites and apps.
• Strong written and spoken English communication.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain security clearance.
• Integrates UX into Agile development cycles.
• Passion for semantic markup and web standards.
• Designs mobile-ready graphic assets for iPhone/iPad/Android.

Responsibilities

• Participate in research, experimentation, and revision.
• Incorporate usability testing feedback.
• Collaborate with developers and product management.
• Design for multiple devices and screen sizes.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Skills

Full stack design

UX design

Responsive design

Agile UX

English comms

Self-directed

Team collaboration

Semantic markup

Mobile assets

Job description

We are looking for a creative UI Designer to help us create, improve, and innovate the user-friendly interfaces that make our products successful.

Responsibilities:

• Part of a design process involving research, experimentation, and revision.
• Incorporate usability testing feedback.
• Elicit constructive feedback and capable of interpreting that feedback into design solutions.
• Perform field research to discover and implement important design details that people may not realize they need.
• Collaborate with others and work well with developers and product management.
• Familiar with Agile/Scum methodology.

Qualifications:

• Ability to solve all sorts of design challenges with creativity, efficiency and precision; a full stack designer (interaction, usability, graphic design, html, css).
• Skilled at building web sitesand applications and an understanding of how they work.
• Comfortable designing for web browsing through any device: be it a desktop, laptop, iPad or smartphone.
• Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, both written and spoken English, with both technical andnot-so-technical people. Ability to explain why a design works or why it doesn’t
• U.S. citizenship, and eligible to obtain clearance required
• Minimum of 3-4 years of web and user application design experience.
• Able to integrate UX into Agile development practices. We release working software in
  short iterations.
• A passion for semantic mark-up and standards
• Experience in developing graphic assets scalable for mobile devices (e.g. iPhone/iPad/Android)

DOE

Location:

Alexandria, VA / Silverdale, WA / Anywhere in the United States