Job Opportunities

User interface design has never been more exciting than today as modern devices and applications provide designers with new challenges. Ranging from tiny embedded and mobile applications over classical web- and desktop applications to gesture-controlled multi-touch programs our international clients like to come up with outstanding GUIs – and ask for our support in order to do so.

To meet these high demands now and in the future, we would like to strengthen our team.

Please send your application including CV and work samples as PDF to .

Currently we offer the following job opportunities:

Position

Senior .NET Software Engineer (m/f)

Contract Type

Permanent/full time

Your Tasks

Creation of user interfaces in accordance with MVVM (Views in XAML and ViewModels in C#) using WPF and/or Silverlight
Development of Custom Controls
Prototyping innovative UI design concepts

Your Profile

At least three years of professional experience with a focus on user interface development
Good communication skills in a young team
An eye for detail and the big picture
Fluent in spoken and written English
Pleasure in learning something new

Position

Interaction Designer (m/f)

Contract Type

Permanent/full-time

Your Tasks

Conception, design and specification of user interfaces

Layout and information architecture
Interaction design (macro, micro)
Wireframing and prototyping

Planning, conducting and evaluating

Expert reviews
Empirical usability tests
User task analyses
Contextual analyses
Requirements elicitations
User surveys (e.g. interviews and online questionnaires)

Communicating / presenting findings, designs and recommendations internally and for clients
Point of contact for developers and user interface designers, internal and for client

Your Profile

Degree in computer science, computer science in media, psychology or comparable discipline
Profound knowledge concerning procedures, methods and techniques in usability engineering
Knowledge concerning procedures, methods and techniques of software engineering
Skills in presenting, negotiating and moderating
Good writing skills
Fluent in written and spoken German and English
Client-oriented demeanor, good communicating skills and excellent team-player
Ability to travel
Keen perception, high degree of accuracy and precision in (self-directed) work
Ability to quickly create concrete artifacts as basis for discussion (scribbles etc.)
Strong analytical skills and enthusiasm for creative, user-friendly and feasible solutions on diverse platforms
Knowledge of established GUI standards (e.g. Java, Windows, Mac OS, mobile platforms)

Position

User Interface Designer (m/f)

Contract Type

Permanent/full-time

Expected Knowledge and Skills

With your perennial experience in user-centered interface design projects, you face your duties and responsibilities with passion and competence. Your focus lies on conceptualizing and creating individual screen designs and Look & Feels, with Photoshop belonging to your set of core tools. Furthermore, you know how to productively leverage Expression Blend and Flash to conceptualize, prototype and implement resolution-independent and animated GUIs.

Qualifications

The following keywords outline your qualifications:

Activities

Screen Design
Look & Feel Design
Motion Design and/or Icon Design
Prototyping and Storyboarding
Interaction Design

Tools

Photoshop and/or Illustrator
Expression Blend and/or Flash

Scripting- und Programming Languages

XHTML and CSS
XAML for WPF and Silverlight and/or Actionscript

Miscellaneous

Passion
Creativity
Team player
Fluent in spoken and written English
About 3 years of professional experience desired

Application

If visual user interface design is more than eye candy for you, if you experienced that a stunning visual design cannot go without a solid interaction design and vice versa, if you want to remove arbitrariness from your design decisions as well as possible and you design by the motto "less is more" – then you will integrate in our team perfectly and create excellent GUIs in exciting projects.

Position

Communications Designer (m/f)

Contract Type

Permanent/full-time

Expected Knowledge and Skills

With your perennial experience in digital communications design projects, you face your duties and responsibilities with passion and competence. Your focus lies on conceptualizing and creating individual screen designs and Look & Feels. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or other comparable tools belonging to your set of core tools. Furthermore, it would be helpful, but not necessary, to know how to conceptualize, prototype and implement resolution-independent and animated GUIs.

Qualifications

The following keywords outline your qualifications:

Activities

Communications design
Screen / Look & Feel design
Corporate design
Information design
Icon design
Motion design skills advantageous
Prototyping and/or storyboarding skills advantageous

Tools

Photoshop or
Illustrator or
InDesign or
Comparable designer tools

Miscellaneous

Passion
Creativity
Team player
Fluent in spoken and written English
Project experience
Knowledge of scripting / programming languages advantageous

Application

If visual digital design and especially user interface design is more than eye candy for you, if you feel uncomfortable when you see wrong positioned pixel in any design, if you want to remove arbitrariness from your design decisions as well as possible and you design by the motto "less is more" – then you will integrate in our team perfectly and create excellent visual designs and GUIs in exciting projects.

Position

Usability Engineer (m/f)

Contract Type

Permanent/full-time

Your Tasks

Analyzing user interfaces
Designing, conducting and analyzing usability tests
Interaction design
Documenting and reporting project results
Presenting results for project teams / clients and moderating discussions

Your Profile

Knowledge of experimental design and statistical data analysis
Interest in the intersection between cognitive psychology and computer science
Passion
Creativity
Ability to work as an effective team player
Good command of written and spoken German and English

Position

Java™ User Interface Developer (m/f)

Contract Type

Permanent/full-time

Your Tasks

Conceptualizing, implementing and customizing

Java™ Swing Look & Feels
Java™ GUI components (predominantly based on Swing)
Java™ applications

Second- and Third-Level-Support for

Java™ Swing Look & Feel development and integration
GUI development in Java™, especially using Swing

Presenting technical concepts internally and for clients
Point of contact for the internal First-Level-Support and our visual designers and usability engineers
Compilation of technical documentations

Depending on the project you work in a team of developers, support staff members, visual designers and usability engineers or independently when conceptualizing and implementing software.

Your Profile

Degree in computer science, computer science in media or comparable discipline
Profound knowledge and experience in GUI development with Java™ Swing
Profound knowledge and experience in Java™ software development tools and frameworks (Eclipse, NetBeans, Swing, JUnit, etc.)
Experience with current Java Swing™ libraries, e.g. NetBeans Platform, JIDE, SwingX
Experience with current techniques and patterns of GUI development (MVC, Presentation Model, ...)
Experience in HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL
Strong analytical skills for inspecting and solving technical issues
Keen perception, high degree of accuracy in self-directed work
A good eye for aesthetics and visual details and an intuitive perception of "the big picture"
Good writing skills especially regarding technical documentation
Fluent in written and spoken German and English
Good communicating skills and excellent team-player
Ability to travel