Interaction Designer

at Lextant

Location: Columbus, OH

Are you seriously curious? Apply your information architecture, human-computer interaction, and interaction design skills on a wide variety of projects from consumer appliances to web-based applications.

Who we are.
Lextant is a design research and user experience firm that helps companies bring the best possible products and services to market. Our innovative techniques dig deep into customer emotions - the frustrations, expectations, needs, and aspirations that frame every brand experience. These insights give our clients design clarity, a key to aligning efforts, reducing risk, and building customer loyalty.

Our User Experience team designs experiences that reflect peoples' natural behaviors. We organize information and simplify interactions to create the perfect balance of beauty, usability, and performance.

Who we're looking for.
Lextant is currently reviewing portfolios of qualified interaction designers who can humanize complex interactive experiences. Our interaction designers lead concept development, create wire-frame interaction models, design prototypes, and coordinate projects. At Lextant, you will provide customer insight for design and strategy challenges, join and contribute to a growing team, and work on exciting programs for interactive, retail, consumer product, and brand design.

What you should have:
* experience managing and executing a wide scope of interactive projects
* an ability to produce descriptive design requirements, storyboards, scenarios, and wireframe prototypes
* excellent information design, information architecture, and problem solving skills
* visual communication skills and the ability to articulate and demonstrate verbal and visual design artifacts
* understanding of applied user-centered design practices
* understanding of user behavior and human factors techniques and how they relate to design
* familiarity with both generative and evaluative user research and usability testing approaches

You should present a body of work that:
* Demonstrates a passion for designing interactive experiences
* Demonstrates user-centered design approach
* Exhibits stylistic breadth, attention to detail, and balances beauty, innovation and usability
* Communicates visual design sensibility supported by an intimate understanding of human computer interaction
* Conveys user experience and emotion relevant to the product, the context and their goals
* Shows experience with diverse content

Interested?

Please send your résumé, cover letter and some of your work to careers@lextant.com with the words “Interaction Designer” in the subject line.