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 graphic design skills, in addition to outstanding skills and experience in Interaction Design.
Skillset
Proven experience designing user interfaces and flows that are intuitive, and easy to use. You can take and idea and turn it into a detailed wireframe specification or basic mockups that can then, if necessary, be refined in collaboration with a graphic designer. Proven experience creating production-quality, standards-based XHTML and CSS. Basic Javascript skills also desired.
Basic Graphic Design skills. You can take a wireframe and turn it into production-level XHTML and CSS that developers can build on, but you can also recognize when more in-depth graphic design is required that you can’t provide.
You live and die with your tools. Whether it’s Visio, Omnigraffle, or something else, 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.