Usability consultant

Position based in Copenhagen Denmark

The Milk is searching for a high skilled Usability Consultant or user interface designer. The work is challenging, creative, fast paced and intellectually stimulating. Strong analytical skills, unwavering commitment to quality, collaborative work ethic and cutting edge design skills are best fit.

Responsibilities

  • Team up with Information Architects and Web Analytic Consultants to design easy-to-use, innovative and award-winning user interfaces.
  • Articulate and champion innovative design approaches.
  • Lead user interface designs through the UI design cycle.
  • Interactive Design: Brainstorm and refine interface concepts with Project Management & Engineering.
  • Prototyping & Testing: Create prototypes of interfaces to allow sufficient user feedback prior to development.
  • Ongoing Enhancement: Revise designs and implementations based on continuing user testing, web analytics and customer feedback.
  • Support user experience research and usability testing efforts to ensure that the user interface is useful and extremely easy to use.
  • Play an active role in establishing a winning culture and environment.

Requirements

  • Proven track record (and accompanying portfolio) for translating business requirements and use cases into highly usable and innovative web-based applications.
  • Understanding of web-based design and the implications of dynamic interface design.
  • Evangelizing core usability constructs and design principles.
  • Integrating feedback from multiple sources to improve design and building consensus across departments on design decisions.
  • Taking initiative to create a best-in-class user experience.
  • Experience/educated in Prototyping visual design concepts via visual design tools such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
  • Creating style and usability guidelines.
  • Designing interfaces that use JSP, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML and/or XHTML.
  • Creating designs that use CSS-based, tableless layouts is a plus.
  • Cross browser, cross platform knowledge of CSS and XHTML: IE, FireFox and SafarWeb 2.0 JavaScript and AJAX technologies: prototype.js, script.aculo.us, Dojo, mochikit experience is a plus.
  • Fluency in Danish/Swedish and English.


Please apply by sending your resumé to The Milk at or to The Milk ApS, Esplanaden 34 C, DK-1263 Copenhagen, Denmark.