Visual Designer Job Description
Visual designer
provides production Support for all Digital Projects within channel specifications - with a specialty in Flash/HTML 5.
Visual Designer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective visual designer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included visual designer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Conducting usability testing to validate design decisions and when needed, collaborating on user research (focus groups, interviews and surveys) to understand user needs & requirements
Contributes to the creation of on-strategy concepts through active participation in brainstorms and other idea-generating sessions
Collaborate with Product, Engineering and UX to develop and implement creative solutions for web, mobile
Maintaining a working archive
Cohesive branding
Influencing layout
Creating and managing style guides
Working from upstream design specifications (wireframes and the equivalent), or from suggested approaches, develop a variety of graphical design artefacts, including high fidelity page/screen/interface design and styling guides/specifications to support correct downstream coding and development activities
Ensure designs are consistent with / follow broader style guides / specifications currently being used
Provide a variety of executions to match differing platform / presentation requirements
Visual Designer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Visual Designer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BA, BFA, CTS, IBM, CQRID, NCIDQ, CID, ASID, AMX
Education for Visual Designer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the visual designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Design, Graphic Design, Visual Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Interaction Design, Industrial, Computer Science, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts
Skills for Visual Designer
Desired skills for visual designer include:
Illustrator
Sketch
CSS
HTML
Photoshop
Adobe Creative Suite
Flash
Usability
JavaScript
Best practices in typography
Desired experience for visual designer includes:
Must be able to understand and interpret existing site design and style guides, and create effective solutions, assist in testing to meet compliance guidelines
3+ years experience designing in web, mobile, advertising, and typography with an award winning online portfolio that demonstrates conceptual thinking, exceptional design, and proficiency of development/functionality
Knowledge of both Mac and PC platforms, and the ability to work in and convert files on both platforms
Self-motivated, enthusiastic and a collaborative spirit
Bachelor’s Degree in graphic/interactive design, development or related field
Industry/Agency, advertising, or digital/interactive experience
Visual Designer Examples
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Visual Designer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of visual designer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual designer
- Remain current and have a thorough understanding of marketing principles, technologies and best practices to assure favorable online user experiences
- Work productively and collaborate with other Crain Communications designers to ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception and user experience
- Proactively acting on opportunities to tell engaging visual stories - Labs customers, approach and outcomes in a variety of media, including digital, video and print
- Able to take ideas from wireframes/brief, through to conceptual designs, visual treatments, and high fidelity designs
- Empathetic and curious about why people do the things they do
- Drive creative production and help produce simple iconic, yet scalable marketing communication tactics
- Acting as the creative lead for the visual elements of the product
- Creating user interface implementation specs for the team (UI specifications)
- Meeting complex design challenges with interface solutions with other team members
- Working closely with back-end developers to ensure that products are being implemented to spec, and to find ways to push the limits of existing technologies
Qualifications for visual designer
- Highly proficient with design tools, Adobe Suite
- Flexibility to design for Digital devices Print, Web, and Marketing collateral
- Experience with common software project management (JIRA/Confluence ) and agile workflow
- A minimum of 2-5 years experience working in a professional capacity as a Visual Designer
- Work with Google Docs, FinalCut Pro, Adobe Creative Suite, and other design applications
- Design world-class templates for LZ academic content that reflect the LearnZillion brand while also being easy-to-use by colleagues and lesson creators
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Our company is looking for a visual designer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual designer
- Being a sparring partner for the Interaction Designer, Art Director and part of multi-disciplinary teams (which may also include marketing, developers, engineers, usability experts, application experts)
- Taking responsibility for maintaining visual and UI consistency across all features of the application
- Creating visual assets, including icons and simple illustrations for assessment items
- Creating assets and brand collateral consistent with the application’s visual identity for multiple media, including web, print, interactive, and social media
- Other duties as assigned by group leader and project supervisors
- Serve as main point of contact for specific departments to incorporate their needs into the company website, print, event marketing materials
- Strong experience in designing user interfaces
- The ability to clearly articulate not only what you did, but more importantly why you did it
- Working knowledge of agile project methodology
- The ability to impress clients and stakeholders with your awesome understanding of our users’ needs and wants
Qualifications for visual designer
- Expert in a number of design wireframe and prototyping design tools such as Omnigraffle, InVision, Axure, Balsamiq and Adobe Creative Suite
- Collaborate with the curriculum-development team to design academic content such as lesson plans, videos, and printable worksheets and documents that reflect the LearnZillion brand and are appropriate to a variety of audiences, including students, teachers, district personnel, and parents
- Build a deep understanding of the structure of the LearnZillion mathematics, literacy, and professional development curricula in order to design visuals and other material that help teachers and school districts understand, use, and navigate them with ease
- Provide guidance, feedback, and training as necessary to colleagues in order to support them in developing materials for the curriculum and/or external audiences
- 3+ years experience as a visual designer working on various media project types and styles
- An impressive portfolio featuring examples of professional visual design work (please link a personal website or portfolio)
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a visual designer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual designer
- Create clickable prototypes to illustrate flows and interactions
- Know when to use existing standards and when to introduce new ideas
- Ensure high standards for visual consistency, quality and clarity
- Partner with product managers and engineers to build & release new products
- Natural collaborator who prefers developing designs in a team environment being self-motivated with the ability to work independently
- Use marketing and business requirements to assist in developing compelling designs
- Developing concepts, visual solutions and communicating ideas to the team business partners
- Creating visual designs for various clients across different sectors
- Making the UI intuitive – Present the user interface visually so information is easy to read, easy to understand and easy to find
- Partner with Experience Designers on conceptual designs for potential new initiatives to inform and influence key stakeholders
Qualifications for visual designer
- Strong desire to collaborate with and support colleagues in creating presentations and materials
- A practical sensibility (you understand that templates and materials must be easy and accessible for content developers of all capabilities)
- Record of being a strong team player with a “whatever it takes” attitude
- Interest in how children and adults learn (and K-12 education in particular)
- Photography and film background a plus, including experience shooting with a DSLR camera, lighting scenes
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and responsive design, deep and broad knowledge of usability principles and techniques
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a visual designer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for visual designer
- Identifies user research needs and participates in immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing
- Consistently creating things that are surprisingly good
- Making sure the useful is also beautiful
- Collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams (strategy, engineering, data science and product management) to conceive, validate and produce new experiences, products and services
- Collaborate and assist in the production of art targets, redlines, comps, flows, explorations, vision demos and prototypes which establish and drive product-wide concepts, brand narratives, and experience value propositions
- Bring your passion for visual innovation and creative exploration each and every day
- Contribute strategically to the development of brand identities
- Ability to think and develop across experiences versus individual moments
- Create aesthetically excellent work that is true to the Google brand spirit
- Drive projects from start to finish, collaborating with Marketing, Engineering, and other web designers and developers
Qualifications for visual designer
- Bachelors degree or higher, preferably in a related field such as interaction design, graphic design
- Online portfolio with work samples
- BFA degree in Design or related field
- Expertise in Sketch, InVision and Adobe CC
- Comfortable with technology concepts
- 5+ years of experience in designing visual language systems for digital products and services
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of visual designer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual designer
- Collaborate with Traffic Manager to ensure correct and consistent online solutions are executed and met
- Create stunning graphics for our clients, with or without strong client brand guidelines
- Collaborate closely with Product Marketing, UI/UX designers, and content strategists
- Create and deliver beautiful executions that work well for our internal and external partners/teams on time and at high quality
- Work with designers and dev integrators to ensure quality of visual and interaction are met and exceeded
- Work with internal and external brand teams to ensure designs align to brand strategies and mission
- Working closely with members of the product management and marketing teams to align the product strategy with target audience needs, brand positioning, and team resources
- Participate in the brainstorming of and creation of concepts for best-in-class user experiences
- An aptitude for storytelling and presenting your ideas and opinions in a thoughtful and engaging way
- Create customer-centric designs by integrating marketing objectives, target audiences, and creative assets into branded experiences
Qualifications for visual designer
- Consumer centric design process background with proven ability to deliver design for product families that align with brand vision
- A strong portfolio demonstrating breadth and creativity in successful product design, versatility with design and rapid prototyping tools and methods, and a strong understanding of design and creative process is required
- Able to effectively communicate ideas to our visitors through the manipulation of form, content arrangement, light and color
- Expert in applying visual hierarchy, interaction design, information design, color, typography, iconography, in the context of a existing or new design direction
- To maintain and develop a consistent level of VM across the network
- To support for specific in-store events of the assigned area