Information Architect , EMC Conchango

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Job Description

EMC Conchango (EMC Consulting’s interactive agency) puts great importance on User Centric Design (UCD) – indeed we lead the agency field in the UK around this approach. When we solve design briefs and create compelling experiences, we combine the skills of a variety of disciplines to deliver something that is appropriate to the users and effective for the client.

Information Architects at EMC Conchango work with User Experience Consultants to define the user interface – how it is structured, the content it will present, its functionality and the interactions within it.

You will join a team of highly motivated and dynamic professionals. You will be exposed to a variety of the world’s leading brands. You will work in a vibrant studio and face to face with your clients. The work you create will be measurably successful for our clients and as a consequence, will make us recognised as the best in the field of digital design.

We started life in 1991. Since then, we have built an impressive list of blue chips clients including M&S, Tesco, HMV, Lloyds TSB, Barclays, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Atlantic to name a few.

We provide our clients with competitive advantage by helping them improve business results. We achieve this by combining great thinking, imagination and creativity and outstanding technical capability.

As an Information Architect you will be required to:

Create conceptual diagrams to illustrate the outputs of planning and user experience design

Design and maintain site maps, interaction flows, storyboards and page/screen schematics/wireframes

Develop comprehensive content taxonomies, including establishing intuitive hierarchies and categorisations

Scope or factor in non displayed information e.g. metadata, whether created by the business or by users

Maintain detailed functional specifications

Creation of prototypes, appropriate to each stage of the design process

Contribute to user testing – definition (selection via screeners, questionnaires, scripts)  and interpretation (reporting)

Work in close collaboration with the Insight team, User Experience Architects, visual designers, interface developers, technical developers and project managers

 

 

 

 

 

Candidate Requirements

Essential Qualifications and Experience

A relevant Degree or Higher Education qualification

Dedicated experience in information architecture and interaction design for web sites

A portfolio of work that demonstrates some or all of the required outputs suggested above

An ability to balance the needs of users against business and technical requirements

The ability to isolate, prioritise and solve user experience challenges

An good ability to communicate ideas, internally and client-facing

Proven experience of working in collaborative teams, across design and technology

A strong appreciation for technical constraints around webs development

Working knowledge of usability and Accessibility in interface design

Required Competencies

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with people from all disciplines, both within and outside the Interactive Media team

To be able to establish rapport and good working relationships with clients

Ability and willingness to learn new technologies

Effective negotiation and management skills

Ability to demonstrate strong problem solving skills

Team player - and “can-do” attitude

Ability to multi-task and prioritise work

A fastidious attention to detail

Travel throughout the UK is an integral part of the job as you will be working on customer sites during elements of each project

Contact / Application Details

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Michelle Flynn, Internal Recruitment Manager,

Link: www.conchango.com

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