Job opening in Singapore: Senior Visual Designer at HP

HP Singapore has an opening for a Senior Visual Designer, with strong graphic skills that succeed across media and platforms. Please send portfolio URLs in addition to your resume.

Responsibilities:
– Translating concepts and ideas into innovative, successful design solutions
– Creating visual design throughout product development and launch, from initial explorations to final design deliverables
– Articulating design strategy and rationale, inside the team and out
– Producing a range of design deliverables & prototypes, comprehensives, user interface (layouts and components), templates, presentations, color palettes, type and graphic specifications, etc.
– Understanding and extending brand elements
– Collaborating with creative, business, and engineering teams, and coordinating with off-site team members
– Setting design specifications and maintaining design standards.

Requirements/Qualifications:
– 5 years of professional visual design experience
– Strong graphic skills and high creativity
– Thorough knowledge of formal design elements & form, color, layout, typography, information design & as well as usability principles
– Fully conversant with current web as well as print design tools and technologies
– Expert understanding of interactive design requirements for intuitive user interface, interaction, navigation, site architecture and functionality
– Branding print and presentation experience
– Application and web development experience are pluses.

Interaction Designer
HP is at the forefront of a revolution in how the world shares information, how we make sense of the ever expanding web, how we save memories and how we drive towards a greener tomorrow. We are rethinking everything in an effort to bring consumers an unrivaled experience – an experience so effortless and engaging that it empowers users every step of the way.
To achieve this unprecedented wave of innovation, we are recruiting experienced designers comprising Industrial, Graphics and User Interface Designers as well as Human Factors Engineers.

Job Description
– Work collaboratively with cross-functional customer experience teams to effectively integrate design expertise along with customer data into product development process.
– Provide system level and detailed design perspective to ensure integrated hardware, software and web system that provides an optimum customer experience for products from out-of-the-box, through initial learning and then daily usage.
– Involve in the research and validation of customer experience and their integration into products.

Key tools and deliverables employed in the research and development process include support and/or delivery of the following:
– Conduct user needs assessment, task analysis and user profiles; identify key tasks for user research, competitive analysis and user testing, develop usability plans.
– Develop high level task flow content and then use storyboards and other design documents to communicate concepts and vision to others.
– Develop detailed task scenarios, navigation map, flow, and state-transition diagrams to document design decisions.
– Develop UI layouts including controls, labels and graphical elements for hardware, front panel, firmware and software (Windows, Mac and Web)
– Participate in documentation development process such as user experience specifications (UES), testing and evaluation.
– Design, coordinate and report on all user testing activities, including (but not limited to) usability tests, heuristic walkthroughs and other large and small customer trials.

Qualifications
Education:
– Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Cognitive or Experimental Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, significantly related disciplines and at least 3 years of equivalent combination of education and experience successfully applying customer-centered design on products.
Experience and knowledge:
– Experience in the Digital Imaging and Printing industry strongly preferred.
– Must possess in-depth knowledge of product design, usability evaluation techniques, perception, cognition, task analysis, experimental design and statistics.
– Experience in applying human factors engineering principles to user-centered designs within a lifecycle capable of producing a Customer Experience specification synchronized with product lifecycles.
Skills:
– Must have strong written and verbal English communication skills.
– Must have excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute within multi-functional and multi-disciplined project team(s).
– Must be able to work with minimal supervision on multiple concurrent projects in a fluid, fast-paced environment. Expected to demonstrate a high level of initiative.
Low Ko Wee (UID IxD Alumnus 2005)

Hewlett-Packard | IWS Design | Interaction Design
+65 672 73525 | low.ko.wee@hp.com
138 Depot Road | Level 1 | Singapore 10968