UI Designer

Job Description:

The newly formed HP Emerging Businesses Unit has a mission to develop new businesses that provide significant growth opportunities for HP's Personal Systems Group. As the HP Experience Software Business, we are tasked with developing software that gives people compelling, easy-to-use experiences and services on their personal computing and entertainment devices including HP PC's, laptops, phones, and home entertainment products.  

This position will lead the efforts that will design fun, intuitive and innovative user interfaces for the next generation of our products and will be accountable for the design output throughout the life cycle.  This position will also be responsible for providing clear specifications for product management for iteration and for development direction, from concept to implementation.  This role will lead design reviews, work closely with engineers, product managers and UE designers, to uncover issues, vet constraints and refine requirements. 

Job responsibilities include a subset of the following:

• Collaborate in concept development and design ideation
• Clearly translate requirements, and dissect complex workflows into intuitive and simple designs
• Deliver user interface specifications that communicate design solutions, through work flow modeling, wire frames and style specifications
• Be accountable for design end-end, from concepts and prototypes to specific UI specifications and final implementation
• Collaborate effectively other designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and other team members
• Contribute strong leadership skills that help drive best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you
• Suggest solutions that optimize requirements and balance technological realities
• Leverage existing UI patterns and guidelines, and contribute to new ones
• Maintain and evangelize for consistency within UE guidelines and principles across all features
• Be up to date in UI technologies and their application, and how they influence both the design itself and the agility of the design-development process (use of IDEs, creating designs quickly to render functionally in prototypes, how to effectively collaborate with UI engineers)
• Push the boundaries of what is possible to create better experiences for users

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or related fields of study such as Human Factors, Communication Design or Information Design.
• Proven track record of user experience advocacy, well-versed in both the art and science of product design and the development of software products
• Expertise with in tools such as Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
• Knowledge and design experience in UI patterns using Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other rich internet application technologies
• Portfolio, which clearly demonstrates successful user-centric software design solutions, should be available for viewing

 

 Preferred:

• Academic background in human factors/ergonomics, cognitive science, psychology or HCI
• Design experience in mobile software

 

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