UI/UX Developer / Prototyper

Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 3-6 months

Description

Client’s User Experience group is looking for a contract developer to help create prototypes. User Experience is a multi-disciplinary design team that is customer-centric with an emphasis on usability. You’d be responsible for developing prototypes that marries wireframes and visual design into fully functional prototype code.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with team members to create sites that are user-friendly
• Present and communicate the thinking behind what you have built
• Create front end code that is innovative, user-friendly, and effective for a variety of environments
• Produce CSS/JavaScript/HTML using industry best practices and web standards
• Take direction from both information architects and our visual design team
• Create prototypes that leverage PHP and MYSQL

Qualifications

• Comfortable with an iterative development environment
• Able to take ownership and show initiative to carry design from start to finish
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite
• Proficient in CSS/HTML/JS
• Javascript and jQuery
• Solid skills in PHP and MYSQL – not required, but a nice to have
• 4-8 years of experience
• Able to demonstrate a solid understanding of web standards and development best practices
• Understand visual design and able to interpret it into front end code.
• Good sense of aesthetics
• Understand SEO and accessibility