Interaction Designer - Zurich
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This position is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
The area: Knowledge
There is always more information out there, and the Knowledge team has a never-ending quest to find it and make it accessible. We're constantly refining our signature search engine to provide better results, and developing offerings like Google Instant, Google Voice Search and Google Image Search to make it faster and more engaging. We're providing users around the world with great search results every day, but at Google, great just isn't good enough. We're just getting started.
The role: Interaction Designer
The mantra of the the User Interface (UI) team is: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UI Designer, you have a strong technical background and work closely with Engineers and Product Managers to design products that are simple but great for the user, focusing on interaction and visual design. Using your keen design aesthetic you design and conduct experiments with real users so that improvements to the user experience are based on real user behavior. Your job is to make sure that our products are intuitive, accessible and usable to our millions of users.
Responsibilities:
- Help define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
- Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Gauge the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.
Minimum Requirements:
- BA/BS degree. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MS in Computer Science or Human-Computer Interaction.
- Demonstrable experience in designing usable web-based interfaces.
- Demonstrable experience in designing mobile interfaces.
- Expert HTML and CSS skills.
- Excellent knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes.
- Strong, clean visual design sense.
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