User Experience Designer

Company is seeking a technically adept designer to specialize in building responsive and elegant standalone app UIs, with advanced Microsoft Expression Blend (v3) skills for contract production of xaml layer / prototype for subsequent attachment to a C# based WPF MVVM application (not Silverlight). This is a work from home position, but you must be local to the Seattle or Bay Area locations.

Ideal candidate must possess the following:
- Has Blend v3 and knows how to use it well. If you don't know Blend at an advanced level don't apply
- Must have a passion for elegant design
- Must be good at incorporating innovative technologies
- Must have relentless attention to detail
- Must have gifted eye for aesthetics
- Must have the ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex matters are crucial
- Must have excellent visual and user interface design skills and the ability to problem solve
- Must have an understanding of fundamental design disciplines (typography, composition, color, and animation) and principals (affordance, clustering, progressive disclosure, consistency, etc.)
- Must have artistic and XAML-based portfolio piece(s) that demonstrate the successful delivery of innovative application interface design solutions

Desired skills:
- Previous WPF and/or MVVM history
- Previous Blend v3 (black box) QA or technical writing experience

Location: Work from home/Seattle WA, Bay Area, CA
Compensation: TBD

Employer Posted:Thursday, November 12, 2009