Overview
ScreenRoot seeks a creative, talented and knowledgeable UI designer capable of producing stunning, user-centric web/mobile interfaces
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Location
Goa
Responsibilities:
Overall responsibility for understanding a customer’s brief and converting that into appealing, highly usable interfaces
· Engages with the business development team and/or customer early on to seek a deeper appreciation of the customers business problem/goals
· Develops understanding of the end users of the website/application through secondary and primary research (user interviews, traffic data). Capable of generating user personas and user scenarios.
· Prepares low fidelity prototypes of sites/features (ranging from paper-and-pencil concepts to wireframes or interactive prototypes) for internal review and brainstorming
· Capable of gauging technical feasibility of the prototype
· Presents high fidelity designs/mock-ups to the customer for review/iteration/approval
· Capable of working directly with customers in an iterative/agile manner to dramatically improve the prototypes in a short time
· Able to explain his/her design philosophy verbally and in writing
Skills/Competencies (Mandatory)
· Design Tools: Mastery of Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks
· Front end Technologies: In-depth knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, and at least some Javascript
· Conceptual understanding of User Interface Design and the Design Process
· Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills. Capable of juggling multiple projects and related complexities at the same time
Desired Experience
· A minimum of 4+ years of formal industry/professional experience as a web/mobile designer
· Solid portfolio demonstrating design savvy
· Good eye for aesthetics: layout, grid systems, color theory and typography
· Strong understanding of mobile platforms, particularly iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7
· Understanding of the limitations of web and mobile, with approaches/ideas to flex those boundaries
· Candidate must absolutely be in sync with recent design standards and trends
Formal education in interaction design (Bachelor’s/Master’s/Diploma) is a definite plus
About Prototyze Services
Prototyze is an incubator, currently working in stealth mode on building mobile technology centered businesses in multiple sectors such as Financial Services, Healthcare & Medical and Training & Learning. Two ventures catalyzed by it (Mobiefit and HandyTrain) have already been incorporated as independent companies with independent teams, investment and trajectory.
One venture as an example of the incubation approach of Prototyze is HandyTrain, which is just incorporated as an independent company. HandyTrain is a mobile platform for corporate training that slashes costs and time, especially for programs involving hundreds of people across scattered geographies. As one instance, HandyTrain was used to train 2,100 sales by Microsoft. With remarkable results (143% better test scores) and glowing client testimonials. We have a strategic investment in HandyTrain by Aptech, a listed global training company (7 million people trained across 28 years, 1,300 centres of learning across 40+ countries, 100,000 people being trained on any given day) to amplify our strengths. See details here.
The second venture MobieFit already has a soft-launch of its app, FirstRun on the Android Playstore, and a major launch on May 19, with Gul Panag as the co-founder. Details here, here and here. The FirstRun site is here, and other social assets include the blog, Facebook and Twitter.
Prototyze is the product-centered, digital economy evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem established across years. It’s a significant initiative of an organization whose companies include ScreenRoot which focusses on human: screen interaction design (mobile apps, web applications, intranets…); Synapse which specializes in business communication, Visual JuJu that’s centered on multimedia, Starving Artist Films which makes films designed for online media. A non-product centric company is Junoon Ventures with brands such as Zaki, which focuses on custom art for individuals, corporate and architects, Gulnar Soaps, that formulates and markets natural hand-made soaps, and Shirkshop that focuses on open source furniture design.
Each of these is profitable and are led by home-grown entrepreneurial leadership. They have for over a decade worked on projects with global clients such as Microsoft, Sun Pharma, Pizza Hut, Hyatt Hotels, McKinsey, IBM, Airtel, Hewlett Packard, KFC, Kotak, Goldman Sachs and many others.
An unconventional ‘Annual Report’ is at PrivateUnlimited.com and a playful compendium of its life is on Facebook.