NYU Digital Libraries group seeks a coding designer, someone with great user
interface and interaction design skills, who's also comfortable coding web
pages and employing the latest techniques in responsive design. The Position
is charged with working across a portfolio of projects to design, build, and
maintain front end software for web-based systems that support and enhance
accessibility and user experience for the Digital Libraries. Overall the
position relies on user and project manager feedback to drive improvements.
Visualization Skills / Design Process: Experience with some of: Wireframes,
Sketching User Interfaces, Paper Prototyping, Interactive Prototyping,
HTML/CSS/JS Mockups, Photoshop Mockups, Usability Testing
Web / Graphic / Interaction Design Skills: Grid systems? Äicss frameworks,
Typography? Äi Especially web fonts, Visual Hierarchy, Style guides?
ÄiFollowing and Creating, Color Theory, Image Optimization
CSS / HTML Skills: Familiarity with CSS3 and browser prefixes, Familiarity
with / interest in CSS preprocessors such as Sass, Compass, or Less,
Familiarity with / interest in Responsive Web Design / Mobile First / CSS
Sprites
Languages: Advanced CSS & HTML, Familiarity with / interest in : CSS3, HTML5,
jQuery, PHP (Drupal Themeing), Bonus: Javascript, YUI, MySQL, Mustache, other
Frameworks
Visual Design Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, OmniGraffle etc
Technical Tools: Local Web Development (WAMP/XAMP/MAMP or equivalent), Command
Line Navigation Unix/Linux/Mac Os X, SSH SFTP SCP, Version Control, Systems
SVN GIT etc.
Qualifications/Required Education: Bachelor's degree
Preferred Education:
Required Experience: 3 years of experience in web user interface design and
development and services or equivalent combination of education and
experience.
Preferred Experience: Experience developing start-up web 2.0 and / or social
networking applications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: (include unique competencies,
certification, licenses, etc.): Strong, demonstrated experience in Web 2.0
user interface design, development, and deployment using technologies such as
HTML, XHTML, JavaScript (including AJAX), and CSS; knowledge of UI design
methodology and processes such as user-centered design; demonstrated
experience with one or more of the following languages and frameworks:
Java/JSP, Perl CGI, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, Ruby; demonstrated experience
with XML and XSLT; experience with search engine optimization; experience with
source code version control; demonstrated experience with UNIX/Linux command
line tools; demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills;
excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skill; flexibility to
work in a dynamic and evolving area both independently and as part of a
team.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: (include unique competencies,
certification, licenses, etc.): Experience in web user interface programming
frameworks such as JQuery, CoffeeScript, Blueprint, SASS, and/or other WebUI
frameworks. Experience with HTML5; experience with web content management
systems, specifically expertise in Drupal Theming and Drupal module
development; expertise in web development frameworks, such as Rails; advanced
Unix/Linux command line interface skills, work experience in an academic
library or research university; knowledge of Library and Academic standards
such as METS, MARC, MODS, OAC, EAD; familiarity with ADA requirements and
methods of achieving compliance; familiarity with web security standards and
methods of achieving compliance; demonstrated experience with distributed
source code version control systems such as Git; demonstrated ability to take
initiative to improve current services offered by the organization and to
document procedures. Relational database experience, preferably MySQL and
Postgres. Experience with webservers such as Apache httpd and Nginx and Java
Servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat.
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