Interaction Designer (Web) at Last.fm

at Last.fm in London, UK

Purpose of Role

Last.fm is looking for a passionate designer who is excited about joining the web team to improve, iterate on, and design new features for Last.fm’s flagship product: www.last.fm.

Responsibilities

Engage with the webteam to ship great product end-to-end: from initial concepts and research all the way through to pixel perfect interfaces.

- Provide holistic design thinking and strategy across the website to inform new and improved user experiences.

- Make use of data (such as Omniture, internal web stats, A/B testing results etc.) to inform your design decisions

- Seek feedback on the usability of your designs through (but not limited to): conducting formative testing/research, user observation, and mining forum feedback

- Turn your ideas into reality using the best tool for the job, including (but not limited to): sketches and drawings, wireframes, storyboards, animations, mock-ups and prototypes

- Engage with web developers (in their language) to solicit ideas, and devise solutions to overcome challenges of different browsers; screen sizes and fluid layout; multiple languages; as well as varying UGC data cases

- Design (and do production for) visual assets including (but not limited to): layout, typography and icons

- Help define and document on-going internal website guidelines for consistency and effective re-use of components on the front-end

Skills and Experience

Essential:

- +3 years work experience as an interaction designer


- Familiarity with modern web standards and limitations for front-end development (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript)

- Proficiency in candidate’s chosen design tools (e.g. Adobe CS)

- Strong communication and presentation skills

Desirable:

- An avid user of digital/online music products

- Familiarity with user testing

- An understanding of Agile (Scrum methodology)

- Ability to write ‘micro’ interface copy

- Familiarity with Omniture

- Knowledge of IAB standards and web advertising

- Experience sourcing and working with freelancers

- Experience outside web, ie: desktop, mobile, hardware, gaming

Education and Qualifications

- Bachelor’s (Honours) degree or equivalent in Design

The kind of person we're looking for

- Creative, with an unstoppable passion for making things


- Committed, with an obsession for better user experiences

- Empathetic, with users and team-members alike

- Pro-active; with a knack for moving along projects

- Positive; with amicable optimism

- Open, transparent and nonexclusive about information

- Naturally curious, holding an inquisitive lens to the everyday

Submission criteria

- 3 pieces of finished work (preferably live URLs)

- 2 pieces that show your process (ie. wireframe, flow diagram, sketch)

- Indicate your role and the team size for each piece

- Your CV (preferably PDF)


- Put “Interaction Designer” in the subject line of your email application, (otherwise we probably won’t see it).



- Send your application to jobs@last.fm

We do not accept applications from agencies other than those on our preferred suppliers list.

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Published at 29-06-2010