Come create impact with us:

At IDEO, Interaction Designers play an integral role in our design process, and in evolving our business through the work. We count on our interaction designers to create compelling interactions and experiences through design, prototyping, and storytelling. They guide project teams to consider interactions people have with complex systems, software, services, and each other, create prototypes of varying levels of fidelity to communicate a concept, and provide expertise on the potential of hardware/software intersection, digital product design, service design, systems design, and experience design. As an Interaction Designer at IDEO, you’ll work on project teams to help clients practice human-centered design to solve complex problems, & create breakthrough experiences, services, and products. 

Along your journey, you may have called yourself any of the following, but not limited to: Digital Product Designer, UX/UI Designer, Systems Designer, Interaction Designer, Product Designer, Visual Designer; or have studied topics related to Experience Design, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interactions, or Human Factors. 

Why is this role important for IDEO’s work?

At IDEO we create impact through design. Our goal is to create work that is desirable, feasible, and viable. Interaction Designers live at the intersection of all three lenses. This role will create opportunities to stay with your work and support its execution in the real world. 

We're looking for people who enjoy working across a variety of digital platforms, and can zoom in and out, designing at both the detail and the system levels. We are looking for one or more of the following proficiencies:

• Digital Design: Proficiency in digital design tools such as Figma, Principle, and Adobe Creative Suite to work across a variety of digital platforms, such as and not limited to, web, app, TV, voice, motion
• Service Design: Designing for multiple touchpoints (physical, digital, environmental) within a system to yield one coherent user experience
• Integrative Thinking: Take inspiration and learning from other disciplines to improve solutions, and comfortably stretch into other disciplines
• Build to Think: Instinct to make things tangible early in the process in order to understand what’s directionally compelling. Understands and exercises the value of building early and rough to de-risk big questions
• Systems Design: Design at both the detail level and the broad systems level, taking a complex set of ideas or requirements, making sense of their relationships, and organizing coherent, user-centered connections between them

As an Interaction Designer, you bring humility and empathy to both your work output and your collaborators. You thrive on complex challenges, have a passion for design, keep a pulse on emerging trends and technology, and hold a developed point of view about your work. 

We know the skills, passions and flavors of Interaction Design vary, which is why we’re looking for individuals who know how to design across a wide variety of mediums; mobile apps, websites, digital/physical controls, room-scale displays, AR/VR, voice user interfaces, and/or a range of prototyping tools, including new-to-market, interactive, and motion-based tools. Do you have experience with a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Figma, InVision, Framer, Principle, Adobe CC suite, HTML/CSS/JS, Processing/P5, or Arduino? Great! 

You bring experience building and using prototypes to test assumptions and collect feedback on a design direction. You are highly collaborative, and maintain a mindset of curiosity and openness when working across teams and functions. You practice curiosity by asking questions, learning through secondary research, talking to experts or others not like yourself, requesting feedback from others, and seeking out other perspectives. 

Once here you will:

Craft Expertise

• Practice interaction design in a human-centered way, lead with curiosity and empathy, and work on projects that identify and solve problems across a variety of industries
• Translate human-centered research insights into actionable experiences for people, crafting the structure and behavior of delightful products and services