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Information Architect
As a strategy and design consultancy, Macquarium’s mission is to create valuable, measurable, and high impact online solutions. We approach every design from multiple perspectives. Business Strategy. User Experience. Research and Analysis. Technology. Content. But most importantly, from the point of view of its users. The result? Award-winning designs that achieve sustainable business advantage while seamlessly intertwining strategy, technology, and a compelling user experience.
Our Information Architects play a key role in the lifecycle of every project. Fully involved from the outset, Macquarium IAs work alongside business analysts, technical architects, and visual designers to identify requirements, study users, and develop the designs that translate research findings into informed and highly engaging online experiences. .
Position Summary - Description
Our Information Architects play a key role in the lifecycle of every project. Fully involved from the outset, Macquarium IAs work alongside business analysts, technical architects, and visual designers to identify requirements, study users, and develop the designs that translate research findings into informed and highly engaging online experiences.
Responsibilities
- Transforming business requirements and research findings into highly usable, compelling designs
- Expressing designs through wireframes, flowcharts, storyboards, and interaction specifications
- Planning and facilitating client and/or team meetings
- Presenting research findings and solution recommendations
- Conducting user research, including interviews and field studies
- Creating user models, including personas and scenarios
- Conducting competitive/comparative analyses and evaluations
- Identifying and communicating compromises or alternatives, as needed
- Fostering long-term client satisfaction and trust
- Closely collaborating with other disciplines, including business analysis, project management, technical architecture, and engineering
All interview candidates must be prepared to show a portfolio of representative past work such as wireframes, user flows, site maps, storyboards, and writing.
Qualifications
- BS or BA degree in recognized field
- 3+ years in Information Architecture / User Experience role
- Problem solving, resourcefulness, and forward thinking in IA and Web design
- Proficiency in developing highly detailed deliverables, including but not limited to, wireframes, site maps, process flows, personas, and scenarios
- Familiarity and commitment to involvement with the full user-centered design project lifecycle, including user research, requirements gathering, ideation/concepting, and design
- Expertise with tools of the trade, e.g., OmniGraffle, Visio, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Driven self-starter able to work individually and collaborate with other team members
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Additional Desirable Experience and Skills
- Masters in Information Design, Interaction Design, Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
- Consultancy or agency experience
- Experience designing for ecommerce and enterprise-class applications
- Experience with lab-based or guerilla usability testing
- Proficiency with simulation and prototyping tools (e.g., Axure, iRise)
- Content strategy
- Copywriting / content development for the Web
- Taxonomy development
- Rich Internet application (RIA) or Web application design
- Rapid prototyping
- Multi-platform/multi-channel design
- Interaction design
To Apply
If you are interested in this position, please send an email to Liz Laluyaux at jobs@macquarium.com. Include your resume and samples of your work. Also include a reference to an online portfolio, if available.
By Mail
Macquarium Intelligent Communications
Attention: Human Resources Department
1800 Peachtree Street NW Suite 250
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Macquarium, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.