Job: User Experience Designer

Modis is looking for a savvy, driven User Experience Designer. The UXD will design informational web sites and new functional applications for the rail industry. He or she will work with product managers, project managers, marketers, web developers, rail industry experts, and end users to produce novel solutions to rail industry needs.

Responsibilities:

• User Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Understanding customers’ stated and unstated needs by performing interviews, task analysis, needs analysis, and voice of the customer.
• Information Architecture: Designing information spaces to achieve an intuitive structure. The Information Architecture fuses the interaction design with the interface design to create a complete blueprint of the web site.
• Interaction Design: Developing workflows and paths that describe user tasks and define how the user interacts with the web site’s and functional application’s features.
• Usability Testing: Conducting usability testing, analyzing the results, and creating an actionable recommendations report.
• Functional Prototyping: Developing prototypes for demonstrating concepts and gathering feedback from business partners, customers, and end users via usability testing.
• Interface Design: Designing wireframes with excellent layout and typography. Experience with storyboarding. Knowledge of graphics design preferred.

Qualities:

• Project Leadership: The UXD will be a driver on their projects, acting as a bridge between business and development. Experience with agile methodology preferred.
• Creativity: The UXD will have experience in new product development for web enabled applications. Can facilitate ideation and brainstorming sessions.
• Communication: We are looking for someone who can describe their process to team members and explain UCD and NPD.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in human factors, HCI, information design, cognitive psychology, or related fields
• Minimum 3 years experience.
• Thorough knowledge of User-Centered Design methodology. New product development a plus.
• Thorough understanding of web strategy, design, technology and traditional application development processes and practices. Graphics design is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or basic Web development tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver for UI prototyping. Flex is a plus.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest and resume to Amy Shah at amy.shah@modis.com. You can also call Amy directly on 919.674.2125 or send your resume to Amy’s attention at:

Modis
3333 Regency Parkway, Suite 150
Cary, NC  27518