How do I become a Interaction Designer at Coolblue?
As an interaction designer at Coolblue you work in a multi-disciplined team focussing on a part of the Coolblue digital experience. You will be working alongside talented developers, data analysts, researchers and other stakeholders translating insights and data into customer centric design solutions. You facilitate and drive the creative process from start to end and translate business goals and user data into concepts, user flows, prototypes, visual designs. You test, refine and itterate together with your team creating the best experience by making the product a little bit better every day.
You will spend the majority of your time with your product team, but will also be part of a design community with designers from other teams. A community where you connect, share, learn and support to improve the way we design at Coolblue and grow as a designer.
Are you a self driven creative problem solver who understands the bigger picture, yet good in details and on the tools? Are you comfortable in navigating through complex challenges and pitch your ideas whilst managing a variety of stakeholders? Please keep reading.
You enjoy doing this
- Designing for a cleaner, smarter energy world is your thing
- Devising and visualising new functionalities and even brand-new products
- Facilitating the creative process with your team from concept to detailed visual design
- Being part of a team and collaborating to find solutions.
- Keep learning, improving your skills/knowledge and share your wisdom with others.
- Taking initiative in improving processes.
- Using data, user insights, technical limitations and business goals to fuel your design solutions.
- Being the glue in between stakeholders, product owners, researchers and developers and you’re not afraid to deal with them to reach the best possible design solution.
You recognize yourself in the following
- Having a user-centric mindset that cares about problem-solving and good user journeys.
- You can present your design ideas confidently and remain open to continuous feedback
- You have a background in CMD / Interaction Design or similar.
- You have at least 2/3 years of work experience in UX design or similar.
- You have a strong, demonstrated understanding of UX patterns, libraries, design systems, design kits, recent UI trends as well as a good eye for details.
- You have experience in end-to-end UX Design; from gathering input from users to creating great-looking pixel-perfect screens
- You have demonstrated passion for design and problem solving.
- You have a broad skill set in UX/UI design and solid experience with design tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Maze etc.
- You have great prototyping skills and know when to use it.
- You have experience with setting up and conducting user tests, split tests and other ways to validate your ideas.
- You are able to facilitate workshops and creative sessions to inform the design process and or get people involved.
- You’ve created/contributed to some beautiful web and mobile applications that shipped and made an impact which you can highlight through a portfolio.
- You're not afraid to deal with a large number of stakeholders and align them to reach the best possible design solution.
- Have experience in agile development and scrum.
This is what you’re looking for in a job
- Money.
- Over 30 training courses at our own Coolblue University.
- Travel allowance and a retirement plan and where-you-work-allowance.
- 25 days of leave. As long as you promise to come back.
- A discount on all our products.
- An extraordinarily good work environment with colleagues from all over the world who make you happy, epic (digital) Coolblue parties, pubquizzing, and other activities.
- Working together in an international environment.
- Room for new initiatives and ideas. We’re always open to those, whether you’ve been with us for a week, a month or years.
- This role is based in Utrecht but requires travelling to our headquarters in Rotterdam a few times a month.
- Hybrid working: a fine balance between working at the office and working from home. Of course, we’ll help you create the best home-office possible. Including desk chair, laptop, and blue garlands.