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Information Architect for Conchango (No 3 in Top 100 NMA)
- Company:Conchango (Bima Member)
- Posted:18th Apr 2008
- Location:London and Client Sites
- Salary:Attractive Salary + Bonus + Full Benefits + Training
- Contract Type:Permanent
- Start Date:ASAP
- Duration:Permanent
- Ref:BIMA/IA
Key Skills
user experience, usability, ue, ia, information architect
Details
Conchango puts great importance on User centric Design – indeed we lead the agency field in the UK around this approach. When we solve design briefs and create compelling experiences, we combine the skills of a variety of disciplines to deliver something that is appropriate to the users and effective for the client.Information Architects at Conchango work with User Experience Consultants to define the user interface – how it is structured, the content it will present, its functionality and the interactions within it.
You will join a team of highly motivated and dynamic professionals. You will be exposed to a variety of the world’s leading brands. You will work in a vibrant studio and face to face with your clients. The work you create will be measurably successful for our clients and as a consequence, will make us recognised as the best in the field of digital design.
Your role
As an Information architect you will be required to:
- Create conceptual diagrams to illustrate the outputs of planning and user experience design
- Design and maintain site maps, interaction flows, storyboards and page/screen schematics/wireframes
- Develop comprehensive content taxonomies, including establishing intuitive hierarchies and categorisations
- Scope or factor in non displayed information e.g. metadata, whether created by the business or by users
- Maintain detailed functional specifications
- Creation of prototypes, appropriate to each stage of the design process
- Contribute to user testing – definition (selection via screeners, questionnaires, scripts) and interpretation (reporting)
- Work in close collaboration with the Insight team, User Experience Architects, visual designers, interface developers, technical developers and project managers
Essential Qualifications and Experience
- A relevant Degree or Higher Education qualification
- Dedicated experience in information architecture and interaction design for web sites
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates some or all of the required outputs suggested above
- An ability to balance the needs of users against business and technical requirements
- The ability to isolate, prioritise and solve user experience challenges
- An good ability to communicate ideas, internally and client-facing
- Proven experience of working in collaborative teams, across design and technology
- A strong appreciation for technical constraints around webs development
- Working knowledge of usability and Accessibility in interface design
Required Competencies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with people from all disciplines, both within and outside the Interactive Media team
• To be able to establish rapport and good working relationships with clients
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies
• Effective negotiation and management skills
• Ability to demonstrate strong problem solving skills
• Team player - and “can-do” attitude
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise work
• A fastidious attention to detail
• Travel throughout the UK is an integral part of the job as you will be working on customer sites during elements of each project
About us
We started life in 1991. Since then, we have built an impressive list of blue chips clients including M&S, Tesco, Boots, HMV, Lloyds TSB, Bank of Ireland, Kensington Mortgages, Chevron, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Atlantic to name a few.
We provide our clients with competitive advantage by helping them improve business results. We achieve this by combining great thinking, imagination and creativity and outstanding technical capability.
Training
Conchango provides formal training for its consultants within a career development programme. Formal training is provided on a highly customised basis and the best trainers and thought leaders are bought in from around the world to provide the best training possible in their discipline. Courses are tailored heavily around project needs and an individual’s career plan. All consultants are provided with relevant training, which may be course-based, online, book based or workshop based depending on an individual consultant’s preferred learning mode. This includes Microsoft Certification, Sun Certification, ISEB, ITIL & PRINCE2 certification and any other technology-specific training required.
Certain foundational training is required for all consultants. Conchango has 4 internal courses which all consultants will attend at some point which include Consultancy Skills training course, Sales & Negotiations workshops, Agile t
