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Web Designer

February 15, 2012

The Web Designer is responsible to design and develop the look and feel for our websites. He focuses on the elements of the site that tie directly to what the user sees. Building and designing technical structure behind the page designs and flows, as well interactive elements within the site.
  • Job Title:Web Designer
  • Location:Milan
  • Employer:Populis Media
  • Department:IT / Software
  • Job Summary:The Web Designer is responsible to design and develop the look and feel for our websites. He focuses on the elements of the site that tie directly to what the user sees. Building and designing technical structure behind the page designs and flows, as well interactive elements within the site.

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize websites, banner ads, landing pages, and site graphics elements.
  • Approach all projects with a focus on communication hierarchy using layout, color, typography, UI.
  • Create engaging, usable, and effective visual design solutions.
  • Create purely semantic and valid XHTML and CSS.
  • Create cross browser framework issues with UI JavaScript and CSS.
  • Developing reusable markup framework standards.
  • Providing innovative solutions.
  • Work closely with members of the UX team and Visual Design Team to achieve desired results, uphold visual standards.
  • Provide to bugfix all the Xhtml and CSS bugs.

Requirements

  • 2 or more + years of experience as web designer.
  • Strong experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc;
  • Strong Experience developing websites using XHTML for structure and CSS for style
  • Experience creating enhanced user-interfaces using JavaScript and AJAX
  • Experience with a JavaScript Toolkit such as jQuery or YUI
  • Experience cutting and and translating PSDs into functional XHTML/CSS
  • Experience measuring and improving the performance of website front-ends a plus
  • Familiarity with an Open Source CMS such as WordPress is a plus
  • Familiarity with mobile development is a plus
  • Familiarity with HTML5 or CSS3
  • Passion for engaging in new technologies, new software concepts and innovations in general.
  • Fluent English and Italian.

Other/Notes

  • Please provide a portfolio.
  • If interested, please send your cv or video cv and a cover letter to careers@populis.com writing “Web Designer Milano” in the object.