Senior Design Analyst

at frog design inc.

Location: Seattle WA, New York NY, Stuttgart, Milan

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll free you to do the best work of your career.

About frog design, inc.

frog design, inc. is one of the world's leading strategic-creative consulting firms. By identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service experiences, frog helps Fortune 500 clients to evolve, expand, and envision their businesses. Founded in Germany in 1969, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with studios in Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Milan, Italy; and Stuttgart, Germany. With a cross-disciplinary team of more than 325 employees, frog offers a broad range of industry expertise, in fields such as consumer electronics, software, entertainment, finance, medical, retail, and fashion. Clients include Alltel, Disney, GE, HP, Logitech, Microsoft, MTV, Seagate, Yahoo! and others.

Senior Design Analysts lead product research, strategy, information architecture development, and interaction design to create products that bring a smile to the lips and a flutter to the heart; regardless of whether it's a corporate Website, software application, or consumer electronics device. Senior Design Analysts are able to discover, understand, and communicate the business requirements of our clients, the emotional desires of their customers, and the context in which these two come together.

Responsibilities:

* Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture design, interaction design, and usability testing.
* Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery.
* Produce user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.
* Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
* Manage the design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules.
* Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
* Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers.

Requirements:

* At least five years of user interface design experience.
* Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to Web-based applications and consumer electronics.
* Strong project and people management skills. Must be able to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
* Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as PhotoShop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
* Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS.
* Excellent communication and organization skills.
* Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or behavioral science discipline.
* A passion for creating products that resonate emotionally with people.

Please submit your resume online to: http://www.frogdesign.com/ jobs.

frog design is an equal opportunity employer

Interested?

Please apply online at: http://www.frogdesign.com/jobs/view-job.html?jobid=5773