What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer 1 position at Garmin?
Overview
We are seeking a full-time Product Designer 1 at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding fundamental usability and user centered design principals to guide software user interface development for various products with different specifications.
Essential Functions
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
We are seeking a full-time Product Designer 1 at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding fundamental usability and user centered design principals to guide software user interface development for various products with different specifications.
Essential Functions
- Researches, designs and prototypes new user experiences for new features and products
- Communicates research and designs using mockups, story boarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentation
- Produces creative, simple, and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behavior
- Assists with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to get feedback on new designs
- Collaborates with and communicate to teams in engineering and product managers to produce superior solutions
- Maintains and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types
- Remains current on user interface design trends and competitors’ design
- Stays abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and software
- Applies design standards and procedures to implement basic designs and applies engineering tools when needed
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user centered design principles
- Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
- Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating different types of prototypes or mock-ups using tools such as Figma
- Excellent presentation, communication, and organizational skills
- Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, usability)
- Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
- Experience in graphics production, graphics editing technology, motion graphics, interactive design works and/or videography.
- Software skills using Adobe Flash or After Affects, Adobe InDesign, and/or 3D Studio Max
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits