Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA
posted 3 months ago
MIT Technology Review seeks a product designer to play a central role in shaping the user interface of its digital ecosystem, which includes editorial tools, reader-facing web presences, digital magazines, and marketing tools. The product designer will take projects from conceptual questions through to pixel-perfect visuals, developing an extensible process that ensures excellence regardless of project timeline. This role is crucial in interpreting brand elements into clean, clear, and balanced user interface elements. The designer will propose, champion, and deliver user interface design solutions that leverage typography, iconography, visual composition, and best practices in interaction and animation/motion design. The responsibilities of the product designer include illustrating and articulating design ideas using conceptual wireframes, storyboards, information architecture diagrams, high-fidelity mockups, interaction specifications, and final graphics. The designer will create and maintain a set of design and visual patterns to strengthen consistency across products, rapidly iterate through multiple concepts and prototypes, and create new user-centered designs. Additionally, the designer will deliver prototypes and clear requirements to describe interactions and motion to enhance the user interface. Effective communication of design concepts visually, clearly, and concisely across different audiences is essential, as is the design and maintenance of design systems and libraries to ensure product-wide visual consistency.