This position is for a designer who can build his or her own designs in production-level, standards-based XHTML and CSS. Candidates should have at least basic interaction/interface design skills in addition to outstanding skills and experience in Visual Design.
Skillset
Proven experience crafting designs that are both functional and beautiful. You can take and idea and turn it into a static mockup, and then into an actual “living” webpage, that can then, if necessary, have its interface details be refined in collaboration with an interaction designer. Proven experience creating production-quality, standards-based XHTML and CSS. Basic javascript skills are also preferred.
Basic Interaction Design Skills. You can take a set of static mockups and identify potential big problems in interaction, complexity, or user confusion. You can turn designs into production-level XHTML and CSS that developers can build on, but you can also recognize when more in-depth interaction design is required that you can’t provide.
You live and die with your tools. Whether it’s Photoshop, or Fireworks, or Illustrator, you are a master of the tool of your choice and they can pry it out from your cold, dead fingers. You know that Dreamweaver is nice, but also you know that the real work in web development is done with Firebug, Textmate, Ultraedit, or just plain Notepad.
Basic understanding of development processes and tools. You have used in the past tools such as version control and you don’t need to be convinced they’re a necessary evil. Code doesn’t scare you. You can whip up a page in PHP, Ruby or Python to show how a flow should work, or you can use basic Javascript to mockup dynamic behaviors in a page.