Ergonomic Designer
Are you passionate about video games? Do you want to keep progressing in an exciting, young and dynamic environment? Gameloft Barcelona is currently seeking an Ergonomic Designer Expert (Video games on smartphone and tablet) to join our production teams and assist the Ergonomic Director.
Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple® iOS and Android® devices), set-top boxes and connected TVs. Founded in 1999 and a top innovator in its field, Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries. http://www.gameloft.com
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Reporting to the WW Ergonomic Director, the successful candidate will enter an expert team which is responsible for the good evolution of UX /UI development on games created in local studios around the world. As an expert in ergonomics and graphic design, you will contribute to the conceptualization and production of appealing interfaces which follow/enhance the art direction of the in-game content.
You will work in an approach of enhancing, improvement, or retakes of existing proposals from local studios.
On a management approach, you’ll ensure that the UX/UI designer of local studios are proposing innovative and qualitative UI/ UX ideas on the whole flows with excellence. You’ll also ensure the UI art direction is homogeneous throughout the game. You will coach /help local studios on daily , plan workshops, and bring leads in coordination with the WW ergonomic director the way to improve teams skills and game UI/UX
Your input will offer solutions that are intuitive (ergonomics), functional (architecture), and aesthetically pleasing (design).
Daily tasks include:
• Collaborate with teams to translate game systems and gameplay user-experience goals into intuitive interfaces that support and enhance the game’s look and experience.
• Observe and interpret results of usability testing and live game metrics, share conclusions with the World Ergonomic Director, and imagine solutions that help to increase accessibility and inform design decision-making game-wide.
• Produce schemes of global flows with detailed requirements in collaboration with the local Game Designer, and share them with Headquarters.
• Collaborate and participate with artists locally to create high-fidelity mockups to solidify design direction and planning with regards to the World Ergonomic Director’s expectations.
Requirements
• 2-3 years’ experience in web/multimedia/video game design
• Knowledge of various web and smartphone application types
• Able to produce material in line with current trends
• Comfortable taking initiative in terms of graphics, brainstorming, research, and suggesting graphical and ergonomic trends
• Expert knowledge in Illustrator and Photoshop
• Expert in After Effects/Flash for motion effects, transition menus
• Proactive and able to work independently
• Able to work on a team
• Very good general knowledge of graphical trends and flows, particularly in smartphone applications (TV, web, video games, professional applications, etc.)
Skills and Profile
• You must have a passion for AAA games / websites / mobil games /application with added graphical value and you must visit forums dedicated to web/app interface design/video games, icon design and multimedia page layout on a daily basis.
• Your graphical/ergonomic standards allow you to create graphical combinations that are contemporary and trendy.
• You are able to create pictograms, icons, buttons and their effects, and you have skills in multimedia page layout and associated typesetting choices.
Additional Information
• Portfolio showing your sense of artistry and polished execution
• Experience in a video game/web/multimedia agency is a must
• Very good English skills
• Finesse and very good quality of work are essential
Benefits:
• Open work environment with young, dynamic teams around the world
• Salary based on experience and merit
• Permanent, full-time contract and salary-raise system based on merit
• Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona).
*Important*
In order for us to consider your application, please send your portfolio or samples of your work (demos, animations, images, websites, etc.). Please indicate the address of your website and portfolio if you have one.
Please send your CV, cover letter and portfolio to the following address:
glbarcelona-jobs@gameloft.com
Reference: Ergonomic Designer Expert
Thank you for your interest in Gameloft.
Location: Barcelona | Spain
Are you passionate about video games? Do you want to keep progressing in an exciting, young and dynamic environment? Gameloft Barcelona is currently seeking an Ergonomic Designer Expert (Video games on smartphone and tablet) to join our production teams and assist the Ergonomic Director.
Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple® iOS and Android® devices), set-top boxes and connected TVs. Founded in 1999 and a top innovator in its field, Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries. http://www.gameloft.com
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Reporting to the WW Ergonomic Director, the successful candidate will enter an expert team which is responsible for the good evolution of UX /UI development on games created in local studios around the world. As an expert in ergonomics and graphic design, you will contribute to the conceptualization and production of appealing interfaces which follow/enhance the art direction of the in-game content.
You will work in an approach of enhancing, improvement, or retakes of existing proposals from local studios.
On a management approach, you’ll ensure that the UX/UI designer of local studios are proposing innovative and qualitative UI/ UX ideas on the whole flows with excellence. You’ll also ensure the UI art direction is homogeneous throughout the game. You will coach /help local studios on daily , plan workshops, and bring leads in coordination with the WW ergonomic director the way to improve teams skills and game UI/UX
Your input will offer solutions that are intuitive (ergonomics), functional (architecture), and aesthetically pleasing (design).
Daily tasks include:
• Collaborate with teams to translate game systems and gameplay user-experience goals into intuitive interfaces that support and enhance the game’s look and experience.
• Observe and interpret results of usability testing and live game metrics, share conclusions with the World Ergonomic Director, and imagine solutions that help to increase accessibility and inform design decision-making game-wide.
• Produce schemes of global flows with detailed requirements in collaboration with the local Game Designer, and share them with Headquarters.
• Collaborate and participate with artists locally to create high-fidelity mockups to solidify design direction and planning with regards to the World Ergonomic Director’s expectations.
Requirements
• 2-3 years’ experience in web/multimedia/video game design
• Knowledge of various web and smartphone application types
• Able to produce material in line with current trends
• Comfortable taking initiative in terms of graphics, brainstorming, research, and suggesting graphical and ergonomic trends
• Expert knowledge in Illustrator and Photoshop
• Expert in After Effects/Flash for motion effects, transition menus
• Proactive and able to work independently
• Able to work on a team
• Very good general knowledge of graphical trends and flows, particularly in smartphone applications (TV, web, video games, professional applications, etc.)
Skills and Profile
• You must have a passion for AAA games / websites / mobil games /application with added graphical value and you must visit forums dedicated to web/app interface design/video games, icon design and multimedia page layout on a daily basis.
• Your graphical/ergonomic standards allow you to create graphical combinations that are contemporary and trendy.
• You are able to create pictograms, icons, buttons and their effects, and you have skills in multimedia page layout and associated typesetting choices.
Additional Information
• Portfolio showing your sense of artistry and polished execution
• Experience in a video game/web/multimedia agency is a must
• Very good English skills
• Finesse and very good quality of work are essential
Benefits:
• Open work environment with young, dynamic teams around the world
• Salary based on experience and merit
• Permanent, full-time contract and salary-raise system based on merit
• Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona).
*Important*
In order for us to consider your application, please send your portfolio or samples of your work (demos, animations, images, websites, etc.). Please indicate the address of your website and portfolio if you have one.
Please send your CV, cover letter and portfolio to the following address:
glbarcelona-jobs@gameloft.com
Reference: Ergonomic Designer Expert
Thank you for your interest in Gameloft.
Location: Barcelona | Spain
