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Location: Irvine, CA
Obsidian Entertainment is looking for an experienced, talented UI/UX Designer to join our team.
The UI/UX Designer position requires a highly technical mind in addition to a good sense of layout, interactivity, and flow. The ideal candidate will have a strong understand of information architecture and how large amounts of information can be visually and functionally transformed into an attractive, intuitive user interface.
Requirements
- Prior experience as a UI/UX designer on at least one shipped game title (non-game industry experience on completed software products or live applications/websites may be acceptable).
- Proficient working with motion graphics - vector and raster.
- Willingness and ability to take ownership of the creation of a user experience from the concept stage (starting from a written design, sketches, and/or wireframes) all the way to the execution of a functional interface.
- Strong understanding of how to objectively evaluate a user experience for learnability and usability, and then adjust the design of the UI based on empirical data.
- Ability to continually re-evaluate, simplify, and improve existing designs to increase user acceptance.
- Ability to communicate effectively between design, art and programming.
- Comfortable with rapidly changing requirements and tight deadlines.
- Passionate about games and gaming.
Bonuses
- Understanding of and comfort with existing standards for ergonomics and usability compliance (ISO, MSDN, etc.).
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, etc.).
- Proficient with Scaleform SDK.
- Educational background in cognitive science, psychology, industrial design, engineering, or any other applied science.
- Experience with any commercial game development packages (Unreal, CryEngine, Unity, etc.).
- Non-UI programming or scripting experience (C++, C#, Lua, Python, etc.).
- Traditional art, photography, or graphic design experience.
- 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, etc. in any major 3D package.
- Web design, HTML, CSS.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the entire user interface pipeline on an upcoming video game title, from design to implementation.
- Understand, wrangle, and integrate huge amounts of data into a powerful, dynamic, functional, beautiful user experience.
- Work with artists, game designers, and programmers to fully integrate the aesthetic, mechanical, and technical elements of the product's user interface.
- Continually improve on an existing user interface, even after a product is launched.
Portfolio Requirements
- A portfolio that demonstrates an understanding of the entire UI/UX pipeline from concept to completion.
- Examples of working interface prototypes (preferably interactive - videos may be acceptable).
- Samples of UI/UX work from previous completed commercial products/websites.
- Plus: Samples of traditional art or graphic design.
- Plus: Samples of code/scripts.
- Art resumes must be accompanied by a Website portfolio.
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