UX Designer

Requisition Number: 176938

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

UX Designer
12 Month Contract

We are EA

Over the last twenty years we've entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning and massively entertaining games. We are a team of accomplished people who create games with joy and passion.

At Criterion, we place enormous value on creative collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspective. Our studio is a healthy mix of industry veterans and newcomers working together to inspire, support, and educate one another.

Criterion's latest game is Need For Speed: Unbound, with its very bold stylized look for characters and driving effects, and a photorealistic world and vehicles. We think it looks awesome.

The Challenge Ahead

Criterion is looking for an accomplished UX expert, someone with a formal or practical training in all the psychological and design principles, and methodologies surrounding UCD, from research methodologies to heuristic evaluation.

What You'll Do:

• Report directly to the UX Director.
• Gather and elicit requirements, with Game Design and Franchise teams.
• Work with our dedicated UX Research team to construct and document research that informs design decisions, at all stages of the development cycle.
• Use the research and requirements to design player experiences, on well-known AAA games using standard UX tools (personas, journeys, wireframes, interaction design, information architecture, prototypes, metrics).
• Represent the User Experience Design craft, and find ways to educate us in UX methods and design principles.
• Oversee the design, and work with the entire team to bring these experiences to life throughout the development lifecycle, and find pragmatic solutions when challenges arise.
• Ensure your experiences meet our UX/Game Design goals.

What We're Looking For:

• Passionate about computer games, player experience and the UCD process.(User centered design process)
• Junior / mid level centered design experience.
• Full knowledge of the theoretical and practical UX design rules (e.g. heuristics), with evidence of application.
• Knowledge of UX Research tools and methods (e.g. personas, journey mapping, use cases, competitor analysis, surveys, etc.). When to use one over another etc.
• Create detailed UI specifications, that can convey complex design details to colleagues from all disciplines.
• You will have created prototypes (low or hi fidelity) using standard prototyping tools (e.g. PowerPoint, Visio, Balsamiq, Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, Axure, Unity, and Unreal)
• You do not have to have made a video game before (personally or professionally), but do tell us if you have.
• Committed to inclusive design, including accessibility.

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Community / Marketing Title: UX Designer

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 23

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。