UX Designer, Google Maps
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
- Experience designing for consumer-focused mobile products across platforms (Android, iOS).
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building flexible frameworks that scale across various global infrastructures and user segments.
- Ability to tell a compelling story through design and build alignment across geographically dispersed cross-functional teams.
- Ability to build quick functional prototypes to test complex, predictive user journeys.
- Ability to adopt AI tools and prompt engineering into design workflow.
- Ability to complete end-to-end tasks and deliver innovative design solutions with minimal guidance.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.
As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.
Urban mobility is at the heart of humanity’s rapid urbanization. Good city life is often predicated on the mobility systems it provides for citizens however, people have many issues when going on trips across their city, from the process of deciding and comparing on how to travel, which route to take, comprehending the logistics of the trip, and of course navigating each step of the trip and finally arriving.
In this role, you will be making public transportation better across the globe and get the details right that help users complete their journeys, feel safe and allow them to make more sustainable choices.
The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.
Responsibilities
- Design for complex features, providing detailed mocks and functional prototypes as necessary.
- Partner with engineering during implementation, holding bug bashes and providing feedback on builds.
- Partner with engineering and research to deliver the right feature set for users.
- Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
- Work closely and collaboratively with co-designers to create artifacts/documents/specification that enable engineers to implement new UIs efficiently.
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