Interaction Designer

Introduction
Thomas J. Watson said it best: “Good design is good business.” Visualization is critical to discovering data-driven insights and effectively communicating that knowledge to others. Designers at IBM work to create experiences that work together work the same and work for our clients. Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson Blockchain IoT and Security excite you?  If so read on!

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Interaction Designer at IBM Research on the Product Incubation team you’ll be contributing to converting early-stage technologies into real-world impact through a user-centered approach. You will design experiences that translate complex AI technologies into delightful intuitive and compelling prototypes to accelerate the lab-to-market pipeline.
Your role and responsibilities:
– Design the user experience of digital tools to explore potential applications for AI technology.
– Translate the complexity of early-stage technologies into intuitive and compelling solutions.
– Design and demonstrate detailed interaction design through storyboards mock-ups and clickable prototypes in Figma.
– Create prototypes applying the IBM Design language through applying and extending the IBM Carbon Design System.
– Collaborate with UI/UX designers to define end-to-end detailed interfaces and interactions.
– Collaborate with design researchers to understand user needs and iterate on user experiences based on user feedback collected.
– Collaborate with product managers engineers and stakeholders to understand constraints and requirements and provide creative solutions.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
– At least 4 years of experience designing interactive digital experiences.
– Experience working in multidisciplinary teams including engineers product managers and design researchers.
– Proficiency working with Figma.
– Experience applying and extending design systems.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
– Expertise designing AI applications or other highly technical products.
– Knowledge of Carbon Design System.
– Experience working with Github and ZenHub in collaboration with developers.
– Experience with data visualization.
– Experience creating micro-animations.