Job: Visual Designer at D2L

Company: D2L
Location: Kitchener, Ontario or Winnipeg, Manitoba

What would I be doing in this role at D2L?

• You will be helping learners achieve their full potential. Think about the good you will do for the world!
• You will be researching, designing and influencing products that are going to have an impact on improving teaching and learning.
• You will make the products more usable and beautiful. You will work with layout, typography, color, and motion to guide users through the product and evoke an emotional response. You will push creative boundaries. You care about every pixel.
• You will work with an agile scrum team delivering mobile and web-based solutions that benefit learners, teachers, and those who support them.
• You will collaborate with our team of product designers—experts in visual design, interaction design, user research, accessibility, and front-end development. You will have an opportunity to share your expertise and be supported by other like-minded people. You will continually learn and look for ways to innovate.

What would my main duties be?

• Demonstrate a passion for our users. Participate in a variety of research activities to understand our users’ motivations, behaviours and unmet needs. Validate design ideas and respond to user feedback
• Iteratively design and specify the visuals for key parts of our mobile and web apps
• Rapidly prototype designs so that they can be demonstrated and tested
• Refine the composition and layout of key screens
• Create the detailed visuals elements and subtle animations that make our apps beautiful
• Be a champion for the brand within product development

What is D2L looking for from me?

Visual designers at D2L demonstrate excellence in:

• Layout
• Colour
• Typography
• Illustration
• Motion Graphics and Animation
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Mobile App Design

In addition, we like to see:

• A track record of delivering successful mobile and web application
• Experience working in an agile development team
• Good understanding of mobile and web technologies and an appetite for learning more
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Degree in graphic design, digital media design, or related discipline

Ready to make a difference?

Contact Pete if you’d like to chat about the role – peter dot rothe at d2l dot com. Otherwise, apply online now.

Reference #: D2LVDWIN