Google Hiring for Senior Interaction Designer, Home Controls, Google Home App at Mountain View, CA Full Time

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and across teams to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. You’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, and inspired products that people love to use.

In this role, you’ll act as the advocate for the end user in team discussions, and partner closely with user research to understand how we can make home controls accessible to a wide variety of users.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Nest team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Develop design directions, create concept work, and drive concepts through to final spec delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate requirements, and build concise user-centric solutions, journeys, and concept roadmaps.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process by developing wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and presentations.
• Give direction to others on the team. Encourage creative use of our existing design frameworks to produce elegant layouts and, when necessary, create new patterns.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.