Visual Designer | Chicago Digital Studio

Welcome to the Avanade Digital Innovation Studios, where the best in creative and technology mix it up to push the boundaries of innovation. We're a fast-moving, big-idea-dreaming, mishmash of designers, UX architects, technologists, delivery experts, writers, and more, who, when brought together, create trans formative digital experiences for some of the biggest and best brands on the planet. Sound like a place you wouldn't mind hanging your hat? Great, in North America you can find us in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, NYC, Raleigh, Seattle, and Toronto.

About the role

As a Visual Design Sr Consultant, you will participate to customer engagements and create UX and creative transformation deliverables on projects. Your role focuses on design-oriented work, translating users’ needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities from concept to delivery with exceptional attention to detail.

Day-to-day, you will

Research

Conduct research from a visual design perspective to gain insights that will guide design decisions

Conduct visual design explorations to generate ideas, find the best solutions and craft a compelling visual language

Design

Create a design strategy that includes the brand’s promise, insights from users, and competitive analysis, to inform interface and interaction elements

Develop a visual language that communicates what the brand is trying to achieve and express its rationale so that other visual designers, developers, and future teammates can build upon it

Produce high-quality visual designs—from concept to execution, including those for desktop, web, and mobile devices

Use prototyping tools to convey design intent as appropriate

Integrate core tenets of responsive and adaptive design into work

Understand the basics of HTML/CSS/JS, in order to be aware of how visuals translate to code

About you

You are a talented Visual designer with a passion for solving business problems. You have both great technical and people skills, are able to design great work of your own, have the desire to mentor junior staff and the ability communicate well with clients. You should have a strong portfolio that demonstrates an expert capability in design principles and solutions. 

Your skillset likely includes

Extensive experience with visual design, principles of user interface (UI) design, layouts, graphics development, typography, color and visual theories  

Knowledge of user experience disciplines such as UX architecture, research, usability and content strategies  

Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite; capability with W3C HTML, XHTML, CSS, and Adobe Flash a plus  

Training and experience in digital design and web and mobile development in an enterprise environment  

Experience designing with mobile layouts in mind  

Understanding and articulating technical feasibility assessments. 

You likely have a Bachelor’s Degree in design, graphic design or similar subject, though experience may substitute for a degree. You have about four years of relevant design experience. Some management experience is preferred but not required.