Recruitment:
- Design and develop user interfaces in a java based web application contributing in all phases of a development life cycle
- Provide the user interface solution to the end-user including look, feel, and behavior
- Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and a UI toolbox that promote ease-of-use and regulatory compliance (Section 508/WCAG)
- Establish, maintain, and enforce UI standards throughout the application
- Participate in design reviews and provide input throughout the creative process for the work of your teammates
- Conceptualize new and improved user interfaces, starting from requirements gathered by Product Owners and Architects
- Quickly develop functional prototypes to demonstrate concepts and support iterative usability reviews
- Partner with software architects and developers to ensure that prototyping techniques and technologies translate to the web-based solution (or even better: produce standards-compliant front end code using HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and other related browser-based UI frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, Ext JS)
- Present complex sets of data in ways that are easy to comprehend
- Excitement for new UI/UX design and development trends and the technologies that enable them
- Well-versed in fundamental visual and interactive design principals
- Fluent in front-end web development languages, i.e., HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Skilled in Java and AJAX
- Ability to translate high-level user requirements into design solutions
- Comfortable with an iterative design process that includes accepting and managing feedback and constructive criticism
- Knowledge and understanding of web accessibility guidelines and Section 508 compliance