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Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI)
Irvine, CA | Full Time
$88k-108k (estimate)
2 Months Ago
User Experience (UX) Prototype Specialist
$88k-108k (estimate)
Full Time | Business Services
2 Months Ago
Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI) is Hiring an User Experience (UX) Prototype Specialist Near Irvine, CA
SummaryHATCI (Hyundai America Technical Center) is looking for an intermediate-level UX designer researcher who loves to find design inspiration from users, visualize UX design ideas, demonstrate the ideas with visual, multi-media, and immersive media, and set up the physical environment to test the ideas with users. This prototype specialist supports UX design for the future vehicles of Hyundai/Kia/Genesis.
You are expected to have high proficiency in creative media & design tools - from 2D and interface design, interactive media (web & game design), 3D modeling & VR/AR/MR stimulations, physical controls with sensors, and 4D time-based media. You are a tinkerer. You are an avid learner and experimenter with emerging new mediums. You don’t hesitate to explore the possibilities for novel experiences and storytelling. You can create prototypes independently and in a timely manner to support of communication of UX problems and potential solutions effectively for the team’s decision-making.
Your motivation is always grounded in the value of users. You have a solid foundation of UX design principles and visual research methods by training and practice not by name. You have a good story of your failures and how you learned from those experiences. You will demonstrate design thinking that links marketing, engineering/technology, and social/human science with the holistic approach to design in a fast-paced agile environment for the new mobility transition period involving electric vehicles, autonomous driving, and innovative transportation solutions.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities, Including But Not Limited To
Qualifications And Requirements
You are expected to have high proficiency in creative media & design tools - from 2D and interface design, interactive media (web & game design), 3D modeling & VR/AR/MR stimulations, physical controls with sensors, and 4D time-based media. You are a tinkerer. You are an avid learner and experimenter with emerging new mediums. You don’t hesitate to explore the possibilities for novel experiences and storytelling. You can create prototypes independently and in a timely manner to support of communication of UX problems and potential solutions effectively for the team’s decision-making.
Your motivation is always grounded in the value of users. You have a solid foundation of UX design principles and visual research methods by training and practice not by name. You have a good story of your failures and how you learned from those experiences. You will demonstrate design thinking that links marketing, engineering/technology, and social/human science with the holistic approach to design in a fast-paced agile environment for the new mobility transition period involving electric vehicles, autonomous driving, and innovative transportation solutions.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities, Including But Not Limited To
- Team player. You will support a team culture of empathy and understanding of user needs while balancing business decisions.
- Design thinker. You will move fast in the iterative process -- listening, ideation, prototyping, and evaluation in Agile practice.
- Human-centered researcher. You will define the problems and create solutions from the user’s perspective - and make judgments regarding when to focus on the individual or when to look at the universal human needs.
- Data-driven researcher. You will derive the implication for the design ideas based on the evidence - literature/previous work/competitor review/case studies/ user studies with empirical data.
- UX designer. You will utilize the insights from the research to develop UX design prototypes in various settings and mediums. You will manage the just-right-amount level of fidelity by quickly analyzing the goal, requirements, and available resources -- from low-fidelity & high-fidelity prototypes for testing to presentation materials.
- Excellent Communicator. As a UX researcher, you excel in communication about research data and design ideas for internal and external collaborators. Well-organized; excellent verbal, written, AND visual communication.
Qualifications And Requirements
- In addition to your resume, please submit a portfolio under "miscellaneous documents" with polished work examples of your direct involvement with:
- 2D interface interactive media design
- 3D modeling and VR/AR/MR simulations
- Time-based media - video demo reel
- At least one example of a team project that you prototyping contribute to in the testing/validation of an iterative design process.
- Passion for automobile UX.
- Be open-minded and supportive of diversity.
- Bachelor’s degree in New Media Art Design or Industrial Design with HCI/UX foundations.
- Working history of at least 3 years of professional experience in the automobile industry as an interaction, interface, prototype, modeling designer.
- The ability to be flexible and inventive, using analytic and creative problem-solving approaches to design research and user testing.
- Excellent communication skills: verbal, written, visual, and presentation skills are a must.
- Excellent instruction design & documentation design skills such as MS Office - Excel, PowerPoint.
- Good visual design foundation including color theory, composition,
- Design & Prototyping tools: Figma, ProtoPie, Blender, Unity/ Real Engine, Gravity Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Premier, After Effect, or any similar tools for 2D, 3D, Game, Media design. The portfolio should clearly describe the tools (and version) used.
- Basic web/interaction design: JavaScript (React), Processing, Python.
- (plus) Physical design: Arduino, or any driving simulator.
Job Summary
JOB TYPE
Full Time
INDUSTRY
Business Services
SALARY
$88k-108k (estimate)
POST DATE
05/15/2024
EXPIRATION DATE
07/12/2024
WEBSITE
hatci.com
HEADQUARTERS
YPSILANTI, MI
SIZE
200 - 500
TYPE
Private
CEO
WON SUK CHO
REVENUE
$10M - $50M
INDUSTRY
Business Services
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