User Experience Designer

Are you a highly motivated and passionate user experience designer? The Nerdery is looking for someone like you!

What You'll Accomplish:

• Craft the architecture and user experience of projects in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
• Analyze and understand business and application requirements, prioritize and identify user tasks and goals.
• Design interfaces beyond simple brochure sites.
• Develop a wide range of visual deliverables.
• Work effectively within technical, creative, and budgetary constraints.
• Adapt to a wide range of project types and timeframes.
• Quickly and efficiently identify and prioritize requirements across multiple projects.
• Think critically and creatively while maintaining a close attention to detail.
• Justify design decisions with supporting research.
• The Nerdery’s UX team covers a broad spectrum of practice areas including discovery and analysis, user research, information architecture, interaction design and visual design.

What You'll Need:

• A broad understanding encompassing multiple practice areas, or a deep and focused understanding of a single facet.
• Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions for a multitude of platforms including Android, iPhone, Facebook, Twitter and other emerging technologies.
• A high aptitude for learning.
• A natural inclination towards user experience and general usability, ensuring quality accordingly.
• Communicate clearly and concisely through both written and verbal means.
• Proficiency with a variety of design tools including Adobe Creative Suite, OmniGraffle, Visio or equivalent.
• Associate’s degree in relevant field or 3+ years experience as a front end developer, information architect, interaction designer or related role.

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Company description: The Nerdery is a developer-driven interactive production shop that partners with creative minds and big thinkers to engineer and execute their interactive projects, including websites, social media and mobile apps. In 2010 and 2011, The Nerdery ranked #1 on the Best Places to Work list published by Mpls-St. Paul Business Journal. With offices in Chicago and Minneapolis, The Nerdery has a staff of hundreds and was founded in 2003 by three programming pioneers.