UI Designer

UI Designer
Washington, DC (metro accessible)
Multi-year opportunity










We currently have an opening for a mid-level designer with strong graphic and usability experience who is dynamic, intelligent, and independently motivated. In this position, the Web Designer will work with the development team and the Web Strategy and Operations group to create elegant, innovative and usable interfaces for online applications and websites using a variety of software, interfaces, and languages.
A successful UI Designer will:

Confidently translate requirements, use cases, prototypes, and/or abstract conceptual ideas into inventive visual user interfaces. Create unique and inspiring design compositions using visual design tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks and Illustrator. Understand how interfaces like search, CMS, and web services integrate with dynamic, Web-based applications and be able to appropriately document the design target HTML for back-end integration by the development team. Be adept at developing HTML or XHTML templates, CSS files and necessary image assets that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 guidelines. HTML and CSS code quality is exceptional, semantically correct and easily scalable. Have experience developing with Flash and ActionScript 3.0 Have experience developing in JavaScript / AJAX; libraries such as jQuery, jQuery UI are a plus Understand the fundamentals of server-side coding such as ColdFusion, JSP, PHP or Ruby on Rails, and Subversion. Have experience designing and producing print collateral, such as logos, brochures, posters, etc. using InDesign or similar software. Be detail-oriented with strong interpersonal communication and organizational skills. Thrive in a collaborative, team environment, but also be comfortable working independently. Position application requirements include: A portfolio with design samples is required. Samples may include client work, open source project contributions and personal projects. In your cover letter, please answer the following: What design-related blogs do you read? What emerging technologies do you want to work with? You must submit cover letter, resume and Portfolio with URLs and/or design samples prior to interview. Please include details of your responsibilities and accomplishments for each of the samples provided. If you worked on the project in a team, note that and specify what your contributions entailed. Please have URLs of your work that we can review. If we cant examine your code, we cant hire you.