UI/UX Designer (Contract)
Description
Naughty Dog is seeking an experienced User Interface / User Experience
Designer to join our award-winning team in Santa Monica, CA. You will be
responsible for creating the art assets and graphics for our in-game
menus and HUD, as well as helping spearhead the development of our
meta-game, menus, and overall user interface. Most importantly, we’re
looking for someone whose job it is to ensure the player experience is
as intuitive as possible in guiding players through a complex network of
selection, inventory, and customization screens. Working alongside
programmers and game designers, you will concept, create and test the
interface that drives players through our games.
Requirements
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Game Designers to create mockups and prototypes of UI features
- Partner with the Art Director to establish and execute the UI aesthetic
- Create, and maintain all required art assets (icons etc.)
- Work closely with UI engineer for implementation
- Rapidly iterate and develop solutions to design challenges while following game and art direction
- Create the meta-game menus, in-game interfaces, and HUD graphics to be featured in our video games
- Establish UX workflow and drive best practices with an eye toward
consistent design patterns, localization, and ease of maintenance.
Requirements
- Excellent and proven graphic and information design background
- Strong usability design/test experience
- Excellent, self-motivated communicator and collaborator who loves to work with programmers, designers, and other artists
- Expert with standard art tools of the trade (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Strong analytic abilities. This position requires the ability to
evaluate complex technical and user requirements to create practical
solutions
- Burning desire to break the mold to push interfaces in innovative directions
- Preferred: BS/MS/BFA/MFA preferred in a design or UI/UX discipline
(industrial, information architecture, interaction design, graphics) or
demonstrated proficiency and experience in the field of software user
experience/interaction design
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience with user interface design for video games, especially console titles
- Submission of portfolio with previous UI/UX design work mandatory
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