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UX Designer Summary Description A Designer on the Retail Design Systems team works closely with creative and technical disciplines to create considered and elegant design systems supporting Retail e-commerce purchase flows, transactional email communications, and the Store App platform. This hands-on design role balances creativity and logic, and helps ensure a holistic approach is thoughtfully applied across platform typography, iconography, forms, and interface elements. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of branding principles, style guides, and product design; an elegant design aesthetic, with exceptional attention to detail; Photoshop and Sketch expertise, with working knowledge of HTML and CSS, or iOS. Responsibilities Systematic Designer • Audit current implementations, and identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency. • Create holistic, elegant design systems with a high degree of polish and attention to detail. • Design with flexibility in mind, ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows, viewports, technologies, and locales. • Stress test designs across all possible variations, and refine as needed. • Create prototypes to convey states, transitions, and/or behaviors. • Prepare design files for final documentation. Ensure layout, typography, and specs are pixel perfect. • Communicate flexibilities and/or limitations to both designers and development, as needed. Collaborator • Work closely with the Retail Sr Art Director to understand design direction and priorities .Collaborate with Art Directors and project teams to explore and iterate on design options. • Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent. • Promote thoughtful and purposeful design, rather than an enforcement of rules. • Help define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools. Presenter • Help determine the best medium and optimize design files for creative review - be it print, onscreen visuals, prototype, or code. • Help create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale. • Clearly articulate design rationale and any applicable limitations. • Participate in healthy debates to ensure design systems are as robust and considered as possible. Qualities • Keen interest in strengthening brand identity through a balance of consistency and flexibility. • Proficiency in the formal elements of design, with a strong focus on typography, balance, and proportion. • Systematic thinker; able to anticipate the impact of design decisions well in advance of their application. • Excellent digital file structure and asset management skills. • Passion for pixel-perfection and order. Unparalleled attention to detail. • Ability to articulate ideas verbally and digitally; be clearly understood by creative, project management, and development staff. • Ability to deliver strong design rationale and supporting files in a tight timeframe. • Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, creative workplace. Required Skills and Experience • A minimum of 3 years experience in product design (including web, mobile or app design), defining or extending design systems, and/or working within a brand's strict style guidelines. • Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use. • Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences. • Experience in e-commerce, with a strong understanding of HTML and CSS; or app design, with a strong familiarity with iOS and Human Interface Guidelines. • Preferred: UX and/or UI experience. • Preferred: Acuity in iconography. • Preferred: Working knowledge of Principle. • Preferred: BA or BFA in Graphic Design (or equivalent).
- ID: #23797145
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State: California
Sunnyvale
94085
Sunnyvale
USA
- City: Sunnyvale
- Salary:
USD
TBD
TBD
- Job type: Permanent
- Showed: 2021-12-03
- Deadline: 2022-01-31
- Category: Systems/networking