Location - Melbourne, Australia

Job Description

Thirst Studios is looking for a full-time UX/UI designer to join our small, dedicated, enthusiastic team, based at our Melbourne office.
 
Our ideal candidate will be passionate about design for the web and love to create clean, engaging, useful online experiences. You’ll have a fantastic portfolio of design work and preferably a number of years commercial experience. Most of all we’re looking for someone who is passionate about the industry and has a desire to push the web design / UX / UI fields forward.
 
Skills required for this role:
 
• An amazing creative portfolio (and probably a dribbble account)
• Fluent in the usual web design authoring tools

• A good understanding of design concepts such as colour theory, grids and typography

• Experience creating engaging, standards-compliant websites using HTML and CSS

• Passionate about user centred design for web sites, web apps and mobile applications
• Love for all things interactive
• The ability to create designs that are true to brief and requirements
• Able to interpret specification documentation and wireframes

• Keen to collaboratively brainstorm digital creative concepts
• Good communication and presentation skills
 
Techy stuff:

• Solid front-end code skills. (Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, jQuery & JS)

• Basic programming skills and knowledge of server-side technologies
• Experience designing for data-driven websites and content-management systems
 
You:
 
• You’re passionate about all things ‘web’.
• You’re innovative, creative and comfortable contributing to discussions about how to design something better.
• You appreciate experience as much as aesthetics.
• You’re into attending web design conferences and reading the latest web design mags.
• You’re comfortable working on a range of projects for a wide range of clients, from large corporations and government departments to small community service organisations and funky little start-ups.
 
Salary:
The salary for this role will be based on skills and experience.

Job Perks

What Thirst Studios can offer you:

• A small, close-knit team focused on quality, creativity and innovation
• A supportive, flexible and enjoyable work environment
• Professional development.

How to apply

Send a cover letter, CV and samples/folio link to: work@thirststudios.com

Feel free to contact Ben Tollady or Andrew Gunstone on 03 9642 8454 if you have any questions.

Location - Lake Macquarie, NSW Australia

Job Description

Lake Macquarie City Council is a progressive, community-oriented service organisation.  Located at the northern tip of beautiful Lake Macquarie, we are the fourth largest local council in NSW.  The Council already uses the web as a communication and service delivery tool - but we plan to do so much more!

We are looking for a talented and creative web designer to join our cross-disciplined web team.  This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the design and development of a wide variety of projects.  You will be working with technologies such as XHTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX, XML, XSLT and Microsoft .Net while adhering to industry standards, best practice, and accessibility guidelines.  Your web graphic design skills will also be highly valued.

Candidates will have industry experience with web-based systems or have relevant tertiary qualifications.  We will consider undergraduates who are currently progressing toward their qualification.  This is an excellent opportunity to step into the web industry.

Job Perks

How to apply

Applications must be accompanied by a portfolio of your work – either in PDF format or on your personal web site.

Closing date:  9.00am Monday, 2 February 2009.

To Apply: Visit www.lakemac.com.au for a complete application package or contact Mark Piper on 02 4921 0270.

Location - Melbourne, Australia

Job Description

Itomic is looking for a full-time web designer to join our small team of dedicated web professionals in our South Yarra studio… Is this you?

• Are you passionate about the web?
• Do you have a solid portfolio of great live website designs?
• Have you had at least 3 years of commercial experience designing and building website front-ends for clients?
• Can you build standards compliant CSS/XHTML in your sleep?
• Are you handy at Flash, or keen to get better?
• Are you looking for fulltime employment and currently living in Melbourne?

If you’ve answered YES! to the above I’d very much like to hear from you via email (ben-at-itomic.com.au). Please include:
1) Live examples of your work (outlining your contribution to each project)
2) Bullet point summary of your skillset/level i.e. CSS (Intermediate), Website Design (Advanced), Flash (Intermediate) etc
3) Your availability
4) A bit about your work/education history, and plenty about you!

Hope to hear from any interested people soon!

Thanks
Ben Townsend

Job Perks

How to apply

Via email ben-at-itomic.com.au