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Senior Interaction Designer

Punchcut — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:04:14 +0000

Punchcut is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join the Interaction Design team on a full-time basis. You should have a strong understanding of the user-centered design process and be comfortable working independently as well as alongside other designers. You have at least 5 years of relevant design experience, including design for mobile or other services, and feel comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, creative agency environment.

Location:

San Francisco

Mobile Handset UI

Punchcut — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:55:24 +0000

Mobile design is not a recent addition at Punchcut. We have nearly a decade of history with handsets, and a deep understanding of mobility’s unique design requirements, contextual opportunities and dynamic industry ecosystem. Companies come to us to conceive next-generation handset experiences for a new era of mobility.

As smartphones proliferate manufacturers struggle to differentiate

Every day, digital devices grow smaller, smarter and more powerful, yet users are still encountering the same issues of usability, feature-complexity and lack of relevant value. Companies often fail to extend the smarts of smartphones, building features and devices without a clear point of view. As a result, too many of today's handsets are still dumb devices, unable to sense the world around them.

The answer: understand and design for the mobile lifestyle

Punchcut designs handsets to integrate seamlessly with the mobile lifestyle. We create device designs that measure the context around them and create more robust and intimate connections between people and their technologies. Whether creating core or feature UIs, we use strategic frameworks and extend the role handsets play within the mobile ecosystem. Furthermore, with our go-to-market experience, we understand what is required to work collaboratively with the involved parties — product managers, brand groups, developers, and content providers — to deliver holistic, meaningful solutions that spend less time between concept reviews and more time in the users' hands.

Punchcut solutions focus on:

_ Core operating system UIs
_ Native and non-native applications
_ Embedded features
_ User experience frameworks
_ Usability & user research studies

Over the last eight years, we’ve established insights to help our clients designing innovative handset experiences. There are a few we often find ourselves coming back to; here are a few excerpted from our articles Mobile Is Not a Device, It's a Lifestyle and UI Innovation: It's Not Just About Features:

Mobile is a lifestyle, not a device

Design with the understanding that people are mobile, not their devices. The more we study people’s lifestyles and motivations, the more successfully we can design natural mobile experiences.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

Don’t get caught up with "feature addiction." Innovation can come from what’s already there. Design doesn’t have to be additive. It just has to be smart.

Feeling is better than feeling efficient

Judge mobile products and services by how effective they are at connecting people. With so many stimuli, designs must always add positive human value.

Senior Visual Designer

Punchcut — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:06:14 +0000

Punchcut is looking for senior visual designers to join our team on a full-time basis. You should have 5-7 years of experience with portfolios that demonstrate conceptual thinking and unique creative solutions for complex interactive experiences.

Location:

San Francisco

Front-End Developer (contract)

Punchcut — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:32:15 +0000

Punchcut is looking for a web developer to join our team on a contract basis, to collaborate with our designers to create responsive web solutions. You will play an essential role in building a wide variety of web experiences for Punchcut and its clients, across engagements ranging from a few weeks to a few months in duration.

Location:

San Francisco

Visual Designer (Entry-Level)

Punchcut — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:21:41 +0000

Punchcut is looking for an entry-level Production Designer to join our San Francisco team as an intern, contractor or full-time employee. The ideal candidate is a production designer who has a meticulous eye for detail, is extremely organized and militant about production of graphics and style guides.

Location:

San Francisco

Andy Gilliland Speaks at RE:DESIGN/UX DESIGN

Punchcut — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:00:14 +0000

MENLO PARK, April 29, 2013 – Andy Gilliland, a Design Director at Punchcut^® in San Francisco, joined other design industry leaders to share his user experience design thinking at RE:DESIGN/UX DESIGN 2013 conference.