Maxfront Technologies is recruiting qualified candidates to fill the position of:
Job Title: Graphic Designer / UI Designer
Location: Lagos
Job Description:
- The ideal candidate will understand and design to business goals as well as creative aesthetic. Creativity, style, love of the Internet, communications, and commerce, and the ability to produce and execute in a fast-paced production environment are core skills.
- The UI designer aids in the project requirement gathering and generates mockup templates to help demonstrate software functionality.
- The UI Designer works with solution developers to develop, test, and generate easy to use applications that are both functionally sound and aesthetically pleasing.
- The UI Developer is responsible for both internal as well as external/customer-facing sites and applications.
Essential Functions
- Involved in the ideation and brainstorming of new applications
- Conceive and design user interface prototypes based on high level feature requirements.
- Works with internal teams to identify, evaluate and recommend screen interfaces.
- Designs prototypes and mockups using html design tools and various mockup tools.
- Evaluates, analyzes and develops web pages and graphics resulting in easy to use applications.
- Produce clear, well-communicated, complete designs for product features and sub-systems
- Build interfaces for both mobile and desktop based applications that address customer and business needs.
- Works with solution developers in choosing the proper layout, page flow, and page controls to match functional needs.
- Assists in testing and quality assurance of end product.
- Involved in all aspects of the development life cycle, from the initial kick off through the requirements analysis, design, implementation, and post production feedback
- Works with business users and engineers to help train on the developed product.
- Supports in house and 3rd party applications
- Adheres to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Document functional requirements
Technology Competencies
Subject matter expert
- Technical expert for one or more technical areas such as
- Primary Software Design Packages (html and graphic design tools) –Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator
- Primary Languages :HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript/jQuery, Bootstrap Design Elements, ASP.Net (aspx pages) – Web Forms and MVC architectures
Competencies/Skills
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Exceptional interpersonal/team building skills including the ability to communicate with all levels of the organization and participate on multi-functional teams
- Ability to work at a detailed level while maintaining an overall project perspective
- Ability to multi-task and work on a variety of projects and tasks at once and prioritize their work
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- A strong self-starter
Experience
- 4+ years' experience in software UI design.
- Experience working both independently and in a team oriented collaborative environment
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
- For fastest consideration, please include a link to your online portfolio or any website/software applications you've created.
Application Closing Date:
31st May, 2014
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates shouls send CVs to:
[email protected]