We are a collection of creatives on a passionate and results-driven mission to design digital products not just for our clients, but for their clients. We’re where the right brain meets the left brain and our strategy-based services are built on real relationships, not egos.
Our designers create with these end-users in mind, working closely with developers and content strategists to create interactive products, applications, and websites. This includes collaborating on foundational elements like wire flows, sitemaps, and page-level interactions, as well as final design concepts for clients that follow the latest best practices in user experience and product design.
About Pyxl
Pyxl is a 17-year old agency that has launched hundreds of websites and digital marketing campaigns for start-ups, mid-market growth companies, and multi-billion dollar market leaders including ICON Health (NordicTrack), CSC Serviceworks, Medtronic, IBM, Booz Allen, Ramboll, Akima, RazorSync, TeamHealth, United States Air Force Academy, QTS, Fillauer and more. Over the last 17 years, our client’s customers have used our digital services to better learn, purchase or download concert tickets, handbags, 3d printers, software, furniture, clothing, sunglasses, home automation devices, hosting services, movie tickets, alcohol, trade shows, home security, healthcare services, mattresses, online courses, skincare products, hotel rooms, festival tickets, servers, medical devices, washing machines, pharmaceutical drugs, jobs, pet supplies, and endless charitable benefits and services. Beyond doing great work and earning lots of awards and recognition along the way, we also like to have fun. Sometimes that fun is in the office and often times that fun is through Slack and Zoom, where we connect with our employees across every time zone across the US.
Responsibilities
- Operates as a product design generalist, demonstrating a high attention to detail in executing on all areas of product design
- Supports the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, and content strategists
- Designs flows and experiences that are effective, delightful, and impactful solutions for mobile and web applications, as well as websites
- Identifies user needs, sketches solutions with prototypes, tests ideas with design researchers, and refines designs with data and user feedback
- Partners with the client in ownership of the product design vision and strategy, getting involved in the client’s process and leading them in order to provide design solutions that meet or exceed product goals
- Develops a deep and holistic understanding of the product to ensure that the client and product goals always align with user goals
- Confidently presents viable solutions and experienced guidance on design-related matters and moving the client to a decision
- Communicates process and design requirements in order to collaborate most effectively with the team and the client within the right timeline
- Identifies opportunities for improvement in client’s products and process and take the initiative to provide solutions
- Stays updated on the latest developments, trends, and thinking within design and shares knowledge and thoughts with colleagues
- Assist in design tasks as needed
Management Skills Required
- Experience with visual design for web and mobile
- Solid understanding of the web as a medium: HTML, CSS, web typography, responsive design, and what it means to realize designs in a multi-device world
- Demonstrated portfolio of compelling, engaging digital solutions and an ability to define what makes them successful
- Strong understanding of digital interactions: patterns, best practices, common challenges, and solutions to those challenges
- Have a collaborative, self-motivated, “always-learning” spirit, interested in identifying and solving the web’s design challenges one experience at a time
- Experience with Figma, Miro and/or FigJam, and various Adobe Creative Suite applications (Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, etc.)
- Knowledge of office productivity software is also required in Slack, Word, Excel, Google Suite, etc. in a macOS environment.
Additional Skills
- Utilize analytics, heatmaps, surveys, etc. to inform decisions to meet user and business goals
- Plan the user journey for digital products, websites and applications through the view of user personas and content strategy
- Create navigational structures, content strategies, user flows, information architectures, and additional documentation (i.e., FSD’s) necessary to communicate intended user experience and interaction opportunities
- Keep up to date with best practices in UX/UI and product design, as well as business/industry trends
- High-level understanding of accessibility on the web
- Audit and provide insight into the usability of existing products
- Present ideas and best practices to clients, team leads, designers and other internal stakeholders
- Demonstrated portfolio of compelling, engaging digital solutions and an ability to define what makes them successful
- Strong understanding of product (Material Design and HIG), including but not limited to: TV platforms (Android, Apple, Roku), iOS, and Android
Software Used
- Figma, Miro, Fig Jam