Visual Junior Designer - Fjord / The Dock

Job description

JUNIOR VISUAL DESIGNER

The Dock, Dublin 2

Fjord has joined forces with The Dock. This is the new home for experimentation, co-creation and experiential design, and an exciting opportunity to put design doing at the heart of innovation.

Who are we?

We are a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, where designers, doctors, visionaries and makers are doing things that matter for people, places and robots. Located in the heart of the Dublin Docklands in a connected, state-of-the-art workspace designed for creativity, collaboration and fun.

Who are you?

You are a kick-ass Junior Visual Designer ready to join a fast-paced, growing innovation centre. You will operate across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time. You will thrive in an open and interactive working environment, which facilitates collaboration with colleagues, clients and ecosystem partners. Our experimentation culture, combined with a disruptive brief, will ensure that together we will make it count.

What You'll Be Doing

· Support conceptual thinking to create world-class digital services across multiple platforms, smartly bringing together user needs, business goals and technical realities

· Contributes to sound UX concepts, including the definition of customer needs, task analysis, and the creation of personas, storyboards, scenarios, user flows and use cases.

· Create digital brand and identity assets as required by the project

· Translate concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite system complexity

· Contribute to the Visual Interface Design through personas, storyboards, scenarios, mood boards, iconography, photography and illustrations

· Produce animation/motion solutions and demos created in After Effects, 3D or similar software

· Give data meaning through information visualization

· Create lightweight style guides and brand guidelines to supplement prototypes for our implementation partners

· Contribute to the communication of research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually

· Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented

· Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, program management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers

· Participate in and contribute to Project Debriefs.

Other Requirements;

· Seek out opportunities for self-development.

· Effectively manage administration such as time reporting, expense submission etc.

· Engage with and work within changing multi-disciplinary teams.

· Develop and maintain open honest and trusting relationships.

· Continually strive to exceed client expectations.

· Communicate in a clear, consistent and transparent manner.

· Adhere to procedures relating to the proper use and care of equipment & materials provided.

Desired profile

Your Skills And Qualifications

· 2+ years experience of user interface design with consumer applications, mobile devices, rich web apps/site, enterprise/industrial software.

· Experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management and user research

· Working knowledge of design and prototyping tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Flex and Visio

· Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. storytelling, storyboards, mood boards, prototypes, etc)

· Knowledge of web based technologies and mobile operating systems and platforms and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions, for example HTML 5, CSS, scripting, iOS, Android, Windows, and various other technologies are a plus

· Demonstrable skills in illustration, photography, or diagrammatic expertise and iconography are an advantage.

· Knowledge of mobile, tablet and desktop platforms is an advantage.

· Good task management skills and the ability to brief and on-board other Designers.

· Ability to articulate and justify ideas and design solutions to clients.

· Ability to work independently and identify and solve problems effectively and efficiently.

Please note, as part of all Designer recruitment processes, we require a portfolio of your relevant work or we will not be able to consider your application.

Please be sure to include a link to an online or downloadable portfolio on your CV, or, be sure to attach an additional document with a portfolio of your work, as part of your online application for this role.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. The Dock at Accenture is a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, as an accelerator for Accenture and our clients to unlock value. Launched in Sept 2015, the global innovation centre brings together top talent under three disciplines; designers, developers and domain experts with expertise in AI, IoT, digital marketing, cyber security, advanced analytics and tech development.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

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