Location: Chiswick
Salary: Competitive basic plus benefits
Location: Chiswick
Salary: Competitive basic plus benefits
About Smart
With millions of people switching their TV, broadband, mobile, energy and insurance suppliers every year, Smart is changing the way the people enjoy these everyday services. We stand out from the crowd for our digital mindset and the way we empower customers to stay on top of their lives.
Smart is set to become UK’s leading multi-play challenger offering truly differentiatd convergent services to consumers and the convenience of getting quality and value from a trusted brand.
Principle Responsibilities
- Design and direct the creation of UI, info architecture, interaction designs, and visual design of new and existing in-content experiences for Kindle apps on iOS, Android, Mac, PC and Web.
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups and detailed UI and visual design specifications for web, mobile web and app interfaces
- Provide guidance for typographic choices and reading layout decisions across Kindle platforms
- Understand target users deeply: develop or work from user profiles and conduct task analysis, create user scenarios or use stories
- Help define product direction and focus, working collaboratively with product managers and leadership to make hard decisions about what to prioritize
- Be a champion for user testing by partnering with researchers to get your solutions in front of customers; and be willing to conduct scrappy, around-the-office user testing on your own if required
- Contribute to user interface design and development best practices and standards at Amazon
- Partner with strategic product management teams and highly technical development teams to support product launch and iterative improvement
Required competences
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect or similar role.
- An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions from the ground up and UI design expertise. Must illustrate solving for multi-platform UX challenges with complex workflows and demonstrate scalable, user-friendly design solutions
- Typography and layout expertise
- Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI) or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in a variety of design and prototype tools such as Sketch, Axure, Invisionapp, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong visual design skills
- Strong information architecture skills
- Ability to prototype in HTML, CSS and Javascript or native technologies
- Relevant work experience in the education and e-learning spaces
- Excellent written and oral communication skills