Interaction Designer – San Francisco

 

Interaction Designer – San Francisco

This is an opportunity for an entry to mid-level interaction or user experience designer with ambition, talent and a desire to work in a fast-paced environment on compelling projects with world-class team members!  You will be part of a group of design consultants and researchers working on a variety of programs—from games and software to consumer hardware products and enterprise business software.  Artefact designers have a strong interest in software interaction design, visual design, and a passion to make digital experiences as simple and elegant as possible.

As an interaction designer, you will participate in design programs and enjoy collaborating with other designers to solve complex interaction problems.  You will work closely with researchers, customers and client side product teams to define new user experiences expressed through various levels of prototyped output.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to define user interaction and workflow models for product features
  • Work with user researchers to turn observational and other data into creative solutions
  • Find ways to make complex information and interaction as simple as possible
  • Produce error free high quality visual assets to communicate a design approach
  • Build Flash, Director, HTML, or After Effects prototypes to demonstrate interactive behavior
  • Create user experience guidelines and UI specification documentation
  • Develop navigational hierarchies and effectively visualize key concepts of site structure and user pathways
  • Create storyboards and plan activity scenarios, flow and sequences

Qualifications

  • BA or MA in Visual Communication, Product Design, Industrial Design or equivalent
  • 2-6 years experience in web, software or product design
  • An online design portfolio demonstrating strong creative skills, ability to generate compelling  ideas, and thorough understanding of good design process
  • Able to accomplish objectives and possess proactive and strategic problem-solving skills
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Director, and HTML/Web authoring, In-design or equivalent

To apply

Send resume and online portfolio link to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Interaction Designer – San Francisco in the subject line.

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

Artefact in San Francisco

 

 

Developer

 

Developer

Artefact is expanding its software engineering team, and we’re looking for a front-end developer to join the team in Seattle.

At Artefact, you will work on a variety of projects, collaborating with top-class designers and Fortune 500 clients. You will quickly learn and use a broad range of technologies – from the latest mobile platforms and SDKs to modern HTML5 apps, to game engines and 3D rendering. Some of our projects also involve interfacing with hardware and embedded systems. See the projects section of our website for a sampling of the kind of work we do. It’s a super exciting and fast paced environment!

You,

  • Have 2-4 years of experience building and shipping software products
  • Have strong skills in two or more of the following technology stacks – Web Apps (HTML5+CSS+Javascript), iOS, Android, WP7, Flash/ActionScript
  • Have experience in turning Photoshop designs into beautiful HTML/CSS/JavaScript implementations
  • Optionally, have experience with Ruby on Rails, PHP, .NET, Unity or other 3D toolkits and/or game development environments
  • Think visually and pay attention to pixel-level details
  • Have got down the fundamental CS concepts of algorithms
  • Love working in a creative environment, with other developers and designers
  • Are a fast learner, and enjoy trying new things

If this sounds like you, drop us a line!

To Apply

Send resume, cover letter, and work samples to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Developer in the subject line.

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

Interaction Design Intern – Seattle

 

Interaction Design Intern – Seattle

Artefact is reviewing portfolios for spring and summer internships.  This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge designs across a wide variety of platforms, including mobile, web, 3D and embedded devices.  Our approach is to hire the best talent possible and to nurture that talent in a fast-paced and creative environment.  If you are passionate about working on design solutions that address real user needs, this may be your internship!

Interaction Designers at Artefact collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to define user interaction and workflow models for product features in a range of domains.  They find ways to make complex information and interaction as simple as possible while building prototypes to demonstrate interactive behavior.  As an interaction designer at Artefact, you will brainstorm ideas, create storyboards and plan activity scenarios.

Qualifications

  • Be in your final year in a masters-level interaction design or user-experience related program (Winter or Spring 2012 graduate)
  • Impress us with your approach, portfolio and outlook
  • Have a clear passion for technology and its impact on society
  • Be innovative, productive, able to work closely with other researchers and designers
  • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrate mastery of design prototyping tools as appropriate for the role
  • Enjoy quickly learning new technologies and developing prototypes and solutions

To apply

Send resume and online portfolio link to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Interaction Design Intern in the subject line along with your anticipated graduation date.

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

Visual Design Intern – San Francisco

 

Visual Design Intern – San Francisco

Artefact is reviewing portfolios for spring and summer internships!  This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge designs across a wide variety of platforms, including mobile, web, 3D and embedded devices.  Our approach is to hire the best talent possible and to nurture that talent in a fast-paced and creative environment.

Do you have a passion for color, form, composition, and typography? Are you obsessive about the details? A perfectionist who is enamored by grids? Do you follow cultural trends both in print design and digital experiences?  Have a strong understanding of layout for both print and UI?  We are looking for aesthetically minded and talented individuals who have a strong point-of-view about what looks good and love their craft.  Bonus points if you know 3D software and have experience designing apps.

 

Qualifications

  • Be in your final year in an undergraduate or masters-level visual design program (Winter or Spring 2012 graduate)
  • Impress us with a visually compelling online portfolio
  • Enjoy telling stories from a visual perspective to a range of audiences
  • Be a master of digital design tools and eager to learn new ones
  • Seeking new domains to exercise your visual craft

To apply

Send resume and online portfolio link to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Visual Design Intern in the subject line along with your anticipated graduation date.

 

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

Visual Design Intern – Seattle

 

Visual Design Intern – Seattle

Artefact is reviewing portfolios for spring and summer internships!  This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge designs across a wide variety of platforms, including mobile, web, 3D and embedded devices.  Our approach is to hire the best talent possible and to nurture that talent in a fast-paced and creative environment.

Do you have a passion for color, form, composition, and typography? Are you obsessive about the details? A perfectionist who is enamored by grids? Do you follow cultural trends both in print design and digital experiences?  Have a strong understanding of layout for both print and UI?  We are looking for aesthetically minded and talented individuals who have a strong point-of-view about what looks good and love their craft.  Bonus points if you know 3D software and have experience designing apps.

 

Qualifications

  • Be in your final year in an undergraduate or masters-level visual design program (Winter or Spring 2012 graduate)
  • Impress us with a visually compelling online portfolio
  • Enjoy telling stories from a visual perspective to a range of audiences
  • Be a master of digital design tools and eager to learn new ones
  • Seeking new domains to exercise your visual craft

To apply

Send resume and online portfolio link to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Visual Design Intern in the subject line along with your anticipated graduation date.

 

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

Lead Industrial Designer

 

Lead Industrial Designer

We are expanding our team and looking for a talented and experienced Industrial Designer to join our Seattle studio!

At Artefact you will work in a collaborative environment with researchers, strategists, and designers to deliver programs for leading technology companies. As a lead designer, you will be responsible for working closely with our clients and the Artefact team to deliver projects of the highest caliber.

In our work we aim to blur the boundaries between ID and UI, and we look for opportunities to re-think products and experiences by focusing on the issues that matter most. Quality is our first priority and we are passionate about maintaining a dynamic and creative environment that helps our people do their best work.

Your ideal background

  • A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a consulting (or corporate) environment working on technology products
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate and defend an informed point of view around design solutions and their appropriateness to the project brief
  • The ability to think beyond hardware and UI in your conceptualization of solutions to a broad range of design problems
  • A demonstrated ability to translate business objectives and user requirements into innovative design solutions
  • Experience working in collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams
  • A demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical disciplines and OEMs/ODMs to implement your design solutions
  • A great eye for details and a keen sense of what is current and what’s next
  • A passion for quality
  • Fluent in 2D and 3D software tools
  • Excellent communication skills
  • An undergraduate or graduate level degree in Industrial Design

To Apply
Send resume and portfolio to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Lead Industrial Designer in the subject line.

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

IxDA at Artefact on December 8!

 

We’re excited to host the first of the event Seattle IxDA series focused on the “other” user (clients). We’re opening the studio on Thursday December 8 at 6.30pm to the design community and we welcome you to join us. Here’s the information on the event:

The Other User: Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Client Deliverables

IxDA Seattle is pleased to announce our first in a series of events focusing on the “other” user. Over the course of several events we will explore ways to apply the principles of user-centered design to our deliverables, presentations, and other communication tools. The series goal is to consider not only the end-user of our designs but the people who influence the success of our designs. For our design ideas to be successful we must effectively communicate them while considering the goals and behaviors of the “other” user, who include clients, developers, and visual designers.
We hope that you can join us and contribute your ideas and experience to the discussion.The first series event will be co-presented by Jon Mann, Olen Ronning and Paul Hoover of Artefact. They will share not only how they found innovative ways of applying user-centered design principles to client deliverables but will leave us with practical tools that can be directly applied to our work. Following their presentation there will be an audience Q&A.
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Senior Visual Designer

 

Senior Visual Designer

Artefact is looking for a super-creative and experienced individual contributor to work closely with various project teams and other senior creative talent to define ‘best-in-class’ visual and creative design for Artefact.

The ideal candidate is: a hands-on, obsessive visual creative force, constantly experimenting with technology and pushing the boundaries of their tools.  They are great at visual communications but also great at being able to explain, articulate, rationalize and inspire the teams and clients they interact with on a daily basis.  They will have a portfolio of amazing creative work in both static and interactive fields, most likely having award-winning interactive design and experience working with technologists on challenging web/software development experiences.

You probably can check off most of this list, but if you can’t, you might reconsider if this is for you:

  • 6+ years of experience
  • Consulting/Agency experience, client-facing projects
  • Mastery of the common and some uncommon design creative tools
  • Organized and able to move between multiple simultaneous projects in different phases
  • Highly productive, hands-on, fast but with great eye for detail and perfectionist tendencies
  • Passion for great design – graphic, product, interactive or otherwise
  • Passion for communication, understanding, learning, educating
  • Online portfolio of outstanding work

To Apply

Send resume and online portfolio link to careers@artefactgroup.com.  Please include Senior Visual Designer in the subject line.

Artefact is an equal opportunity employer.

Daniella Spinat

 

Daniella is a graphic designer who works in print and screen-based media, and likes most working collaboratively across disciplines.

She believes design should be deliberate and bold. With each project, she strives for an approach that is highly rational while also formally inventive. Some of her favorite tools to get there are articulating a core idea through visual means, leveraging what’s already there, and keeping it simple.

Daniella’s background includes designing identity systems at 2×4 and Siegel+Gale. Prior to joining Artefact, she worked on the brand and experience for new consumer-facing products at Microsoft. Daniella earned her MFA in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and has been recognized by AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers.