Posts Tagged ‘Information Architect’

Freelance Information Architects- £375-425pday – Central London- J567

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Hello,

I have another freelance role to brief you on. This one is for an integrated agency based in Central London, and they are looking for an IA to lead on a complex project for a key client. The role begins on the 24th August, and will run for at least 4 weeks, and potentially 8. It is paying between £375-425 depending on the usual stuff.

The project is to completely redesign a desktop application, a complex and data heavy application to allow companies to track vehicles in their fleet. The client in this instance is not hugely digitally savvy, but understands that they need to bring their product into the 21st century, so the agency is guiding and massaging them through this process, and making them aware of what is possible with current tech (geo mapping, global positioning, cutting edge data visualisation and modular screen customisation.) Requirements gathering, workshops and stakeholder engagement for this project will be handled by the Head of Production, but you will be present in key meetings, and as the lead IA on the project, you will need to be able to confidently and clearly explain your design decisions to key stakeholders. The agency are partnering with a very good UX consultancy to deliver the user research documentation, as well as creating some of their own documentation.

You will be producing user journeys, page flows, increasingly complex wireframes and product maps, interaction design documentation and specification documents. It would be great if you had had exposure to working on products that had a lot of complex information feeding into the back end, but required beautifully simple, intuitive front end interactions and flows for the user.

Drop me a line if this is of interest.

ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Senior Information Architects – client FTSE Listed Content Owner – £450pday-London – J566

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Hello,

I have 5 increasingly rare, long term contract roles to brief you all on. They are for one of our largest, FTSE100 listed, content owning and aggregating media conglomerates, based 25 minutes train ride out of London (south west). They are ongoing, 6 month renewable contracts, and will pay up to £450pday for the right people. We are looking for strong, senior level Information Architects, but with a good, solid understanding of the wider UCD process.

This company has a well established and senior product and digital research team, so requirements and research documentation is all in place for projects. They also have a state of the art user testing laboratory, with a senior practitioner running the programs, so these roles are for pure UX designers, but who also have a good understanding of how that research documentation and testing data should feed intelligently into design.

These roles will be working across a number of the clients products, with the immediate requirements being an overhaul of the extensive online shop, from interactions to content layout to look and feel. Following this, other projects will come online, including revisions to areas of the .com presence, and a number of other transactional and functional revisions to consumer facing digital products.

You must be comfortable creating user journeys, site maps and wireframes, of increasing fidelity and complexity, working in an agile environment with the internal build teams, and iterating on your design work as results from testing and extended requirements feed into the project. This is an opportunity to work on some key consumer facing products for one of the countries most recognisable and well known media brands, used by millions of people every single day.

Drop me a line if these are of interest.

Ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Information Architects, Freelance £400-450pday, London, J545

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Hello,

Me and Be have a new freelance role to brief you on, to start ASAP (1 weeks notice is OK), but you must be able to get to South West London 5 days a week (final destination 25 minutes out of Clapham Junction on an overland train). The role will run for 1 month initially, but if it works from all sides, could be extended to up to 3 months and beyond.

This is a design focussed role (wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes and concepting), requirements are either in place or will be gathered by the lead UX on the projects. You must be comfortable taking part in workshops / focus groups, and presenting and defending your ideas in this format, but will not be expected to run them.

This is to work across various work streams, including main site revisions, ecommerce products, and marketing and micro-sites. You will be working through a globally renowned agency, for one of the countries largest and most profitable blue chip media conglomerates, and will have a variety of projects to get your teeth into (you won’t just be churning out identical wireframes indefinitely).

The role will pay between £400-450pday depending on experience and contextual fit. Please drop me or Be a line for more info.

be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Information Architect, London, £400 per day, J479

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

My client is a big big bank in the city and has a couple of major work steams to move content into CMS’s (if you have worked with Vignette or Fat wire, great). 

 You will be there for 2 months initially, working on a content audit, and understanding the gaps so you could see how the new content would fit into the content frameworks and CMS’s. They may also like you to critique some of the work that is in place. It’s to work across a number of B2C retail brands, and you need to be efficient in using visio, excel and maybe axure.

To apply for this role email be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Information Architecture Manager, London, £400 per day, Freelance

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Hello everyone,

I have a new freelance to brief you on, with the countries largest and most complex digital convergence strategy project (some of you I’m sure will be able to guess the client from that alone.)

This role is focussed around managing the implementation of the Information Architecture deliverables, using the extensive scoping, requirements and research documentation already in place up to this point. There is a focus around the IA for this project feeding into the ‘findability’ concerns of the project.

Deliverables for this role include an IA principles document and an IA ‘style guide’, including all standards, guideline and maintenance procedures for the IA, as well as ensuring that the principles created are in line with the clients metadata and taxonomy. There is also an ongoing need to ensure that the principles outlined are in line with the various stakeholders requirements and needs, which calls for some strong stakeholder management expertise. Key relationships are internal senior management team, strategy and proposition team, product design, customer insights team and convergence programme management team. External relationships will include government department franchise heads. This is a managerial role in title and context, but has no actual direct reports.

The job is based in London-Rate £400 per day- Freelance

Drop me a line ASAP if this is of interest. Ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

User Experience Architect, £350 per day, London 2-4 Weeks

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

My client has a Facebook application, you will be helping to promote a contest looking at user generated content. Helping to work with features and functionality that are appropriate, you will make key decisions on the information flow and interaction design.

I’m awaiting to hear more about deliverables but i would expect you to have experience of producing the full suite of documentation including user journeys, task analysis and structures. This project is for 2-4 weeks and starts on Monday  7th June.

The job is based in London over a period of 4 weeks.

The rate is £350 per day

To apply for this job please contact be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Information Architect for 5 days £400pd (ref J344)

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

I have a new, short term freelance role to brief you on. It is for a central London based User Experience consultancy, starting on the 5th May for 5 days, delivering an Axure prototype from a full set of complete wireframes. The client can pay between £350-400pday, but would prefer someone with extensive experience of producing the actual deliverable.

 If this sounds of interest please do drop me a line. Ben Tregoing 020 3326 0568/ ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Freelance midweight IA role – agency – £350pday (ref j321)

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

I have a new freelance role to brief you on. This one is with one of our full service digital agency clients, to start the 12th April for 3-4 weeks, with a strong possibility of follow on. You will be working alongside the Head of UX, and be supported by a junior IA, as well as have support from the Creative Director as part of the wider project team. The role is to work with a major high-street bank, to work on redesigning their .com presence, and requirements for this project are all in place already, so all that is left is to deliver the solution. You should have a thorough understanding and experience of an end-to-end web build project lifecycle, and have a thorough understanding of the full User Experience toolkit; including persona production, user journeys, site maps, wireframes, accessibility and usability audits, concepting and prototyping.

If this sounds of interest please do drop me a line with your CV and folio so we can talk more.

Contact Ben Tregoing 020 3326 0568, ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Who said 13 was unlucky? Lots of User Experience roles

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

1.    User Experience Consultant £35-55K dependent on experience and suitability

My client is a leading brand communications consultancy based in central London, they instil pragmatic user centred design and user experiences into all of their digital work, they also contribute to service design, brand strategy and marketing communications across a wider group. They are looking to grow the existing team with user experience people who have worked closely with design and technical teams producing simple design solutions for clients. You will be able to quickly mock up information architectures, experiences and interaction design deliverables, working off instinct as there is not always an in-depth user research phase that takes place. You need to be happy to work with clients to understand their requirements. You will be based in super offices, and be mentored by a very senior and well respected leader and practitioner in the industry

 2.    User Experience Consultant, £30 to £38K

This agency are always winning awards, they have a dedicated team and they are known for slick design – can you help underpin this with a great user experience? You will have experience of working on both websites and applications, where the emphasis is on motivating the user and organising content. You will support the team in place in translating business requirements, and help develop personas and scenarios from immersive user research. You will work in collaboration with design and tech teams to produce mock ups and prototypes for clients and work with designers to develop user journeys. You need to be a great communicator. To find out more about this award winning team, get in touch.

 3.    User Experience Architect £30 to £45K

One of the top 20 digital marketing agencies in the UK are looking for a user experience consultant to join their very ideas led business. They have a wide range of clients in travel, finance, the arts and automobile. The projects can range from e-commerce and banking sites, through to campaign microsites, advertising, email and mobile. You need a thorough understanding and experience of the end to end web-build project life cycle, great client liaison skills, and a full understanding of the user experience toolkit. You will be supporting members of the team in costing, planning and pitching for work. Conducting and documenting research and insights (user interviews, focus groups, surveys, expert reviews, ethnographic studies and heuristic and expert evaluations etc). You will be using personas, user journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, usability and accessibility audits, content audits an d prototyping as design and documentation and work closely with design and tech teams to ensure feasibility and quality of the solution.

 4.    User Experience Consultant – to £45K

My client works with world class luxury brands both on and offline, projects range from dynamic site builds toregional press campaigns to CRM and offline direct marketing. They offer an integrated approach to their client but also understand the importance of good user experience. I am looking for a user experience consultant who has experience of, or an appetite for working in a very integrated way – everything my client delivers is against brand and business goals. Of course you will be responsible for business and user requirements, translating this throughout the design and technology phase. You will create documentation including wireframes, site maps, use cases, business process flows, navigational flows & create usability guidelines and consistent information hierarchy’s. You will be based in cool cool Shoreditch  for a boutique agency, but working with truly international brands.

 5.    User Experience Consultant – to 40K

My client, a FTSE100 owned recruitment website, are looking to bolster their central User Experience team with a strong mid-weight User Experience practitioner. This role will focus both on delivery, working within an ‘agile’ framework, and on new product development, working closely with a variety of stakeholders and cross-functional teams.  The User Experience analyst will also be asked to support all the activities performed by the User Experience Team (including research and measurement). The successful candidate will have The senior user experience analyst will have an appropriate level of experience of working for one or more well-known, online brands, whether in permanent or consulting roles. The User Experience analyst will be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of e-commerce, product and website development.  You will ideally be skilled and practiced in a wide range of user experience techniques, tools and methods.  Additional experience in concept / new product development would be a plus. This is a good opportunity to work on a suite of very visible, high profile products, to work on long term, end to end projects, and to help evolve, refine and improve a central product.

 6.    User Experience Designer perm role – up to 50k – client side -

Our client, a renowned e-commerce application provider to the financial markets, is looking to bolster it’s in house User Experience team with a senior User Experience Designer hire. The scope for this role is  to work alongside a team of senior UX professionals, working on highly interactive rich internet applications, with a focus on exemplary UI’s. The products in this instance are internal applications, NOT web based products. This role will involve direct liaison with the companies client base, so excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are essential. You will be responsible for creating wireframes and interaction designs, produce rapid iterative prototypes, design and brand numerous UI iterations, develop new UI concepts and prototypes, create style guides, lead research projects to update personas and design maps. This is a great opportunity to join a company with a healthy and growing appetite for UX, and impact a crucial core function of the business.

7.    New perm agency role – Interaction Designer – up to 60k

We are looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join one of our User Experience Consultancies in Central London. This role is focussed around shaping the organisations approach, integration, and methodology of interaction design, as well as being  a hands on practitioner and subject matter expert for the agencies full portfolio of clients and projects. Somebody with 3-5 years experience in information architecture / interaction design, preferably from an agency environment, would be a good fit for this position. Exposure to the following things would also be beneficial; user journey mapping, conceptual interaction modelling, storyboarding, site mapping, taxonomy and categorisation, and conceptual wireframing through to detailed heavily annotated wireframing. This is a great opportunity to join a fast growing consultancy with a voracious appetite and mature approach to User Experience, and really impact the core business. An interest in platforms outside of pure web would also be beneficial.

8.    New perm agency role – Senior UX consultant – up to 60k  

We are looking for a Senior User Experience Consultant  to join one of our dedicated User Experience Agencies, based in Central London. This role’s focus is to lead the organisations User Experience practice and act as subject matter expert across the business and full client portfolio. This role is integrated into projects from the point of requirements gathering and client brief, all the way through design, delivery and ongoing testing. This role requires somebody with full bodied UX exposure, including extensive research skills (competitor analysis, expert reviews, content audits, workshops, task analysis and user journeys), design skills (site maps and wireframes) and user testing (1 on 1, talk aloud, eye tracking). As this will be a client facing role, as well as requiring strong internal and external relationships across numerous business units and partners, a confident communicator who is able to build rapport quickly is essential. In return for all of this, you get to play a pivotal role in shaping this organisations integration and approach to User Experience and UCD, and work within an organisation to whom the User Experience is integral to everything that they produce for their clients.

9.    Experience Architects, London and Gloucester – £50K -

Experience Architects, London and Gloucester – £30 to 40K. Client is a business consulting firm based in Central London, you will work with large scale projects and ensure that a business and user centred design process is adopted throughout the production process. You need to be an excellent communicator and you will often be asked to work on client site so you can absorb the requirements gathering process and ensure that you can be the guardian of these through design and development phase. Its essential that you have demonstrable skills in development of information architectures, wireframes, usability testing, competitor benchmarking, accessibility compliance, user profiling and user research. My client would love to meet someone who has additional skills in search, social media, mobile and content audits.

10. Perm Information Architect – Agency – 50k –

My client, a leading London based corporate and brand communications agency, are looking for an information architect / user experience practitioner to join their team on a permanent basis. Whilst the role is primarily focussed on the delivery of digital products to clients, it also directly impacts the agencies growth plans and business strategy through research and analysis on a wider scale. This agency works predominantly with FTSE250 business’ and multinationals, so strong stakeholder management skills are key, as is hands on experience of the full end to end user experience process, including numerous research tools (focus groups, site audits, competitor analysis, peer benchmarking), strong wireframing and design skills and exposure to testing methods. This is an agency with a strong appetite for user experience, and a great place for somebody to gain exposure to working with some of the biggest brands and      organisations in the country across the full range of digital products.

11. Midweight Information Architect £30-£50k -

My client, an award winning full service digital design agency, are looking for a mid-weight Information Architect to join their already sizable User Experience team as soon as possible. This role is to work across the agencies full portfolio of FTSE250 and multinational clients, and across a variety of different channels and mediums, from internal and external site design, to rich media applications, widgets and apps. Usability is absolutely central to everything this agency does, and this role will involve seeing projects through from initial brief with clients and gathering user and business objectives, all the way through design, delivery, testing and beyond. This role is central to ensuring that all internal stakeholders are aware and understand what the goals are for the projects throughout their lifecycle. Key internal relationships include the planning, creative and technical teams, but the role also involves client facing responsibilities, so a confident and capable communicator is essential for this position. In exchange for all of this, you will have the opportunity to work within one of the most exciting digital agencies in the country, and in an environment where the role of the Information Architect is both central to and of great value to everything that is produced.

12. User Experience Architect £30 to £45K -

A corporate design and communications agency based in West London are seeking an additional member to the user experience team. This is an opportunity to work on large FTSE 100 companies and deliver rich interactive experience often using video and rich media. You will be able to gather translate and document user requirements through appropriate research and scoping techniques such as site audits, competitor analysis, benchmarking, stakeholder interviews and workshops. You will use best practise tools and technology to deliver innovative visualisation – storyboarding or wireframeing  as appropriate. You need to be an evangelist internally, and inspire clients and colleagues to keep up with the market and conduct research and testing with users as necessary. You need to be really passionate to join this team, you need to be an excellent communicator with a well to climb the ladder quickly and work on bigger and bigger projects. This company has great benefits including medical cover, 22 days holiday + Christmas and a great social life.

 13. User Experience Designer, £30K Perm

A User Experience Designer is required to join a luxury travel brand  based in Surrey. You will work closely with marketing and ecommerce teams and be responsible for bringing customer journeys to life in the form of designs, prototypes, web pages and emails. You will have worked in a similar environment and be involved in web design strategy, user research and testing. The user experience design and prototyping incorporates all aspects of information architecture, interaction design, brand development and visual design. You will be accomplished in converting layouts using Photoshop or Fireworks and be able to maintain and create style guides for other members of the business and external agencies. You will be working with a great team using paper and HTML prototyping  and designing templates for page build in XHTML. You will work with some experts in the industry, in a great environments with a salary of up to £30K + great bens.

Perm Information Architect – Agency – 50k – (refJ186)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

My client, a leading London based corporate and brand communications agency, are looking for an information architect / user experience practitioner to join their team on a permanent basis. Whilst the role is primarily focussed on the delivery of digital products to clients, it also directly impacts the agencies growth plans and business strategy through research and analysis on a wider scale. This agency works predominantly with FTSE250 business’ and multinationals, so strong stakeholder management skills are key, as is hands on experience of the full end to end user experience process, including numerous research tools (focus groups, site audits, competitor analysis, peer benchmarking), strong wireframing and design skills and exposure to testing methods. This is an agency with a strong appetite for user experience, and a great place for somebody to gain exposure to working with some of the biggest brands and organisations in the country across the full range of digital products.

Contact Ben Tregoing 0207420 3538/ ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk