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In this role, you design interface layouts for a platform, develop dashboards and a pattern library, consider accessibility, and conduct user research.
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Your role in the team
- You are responsible for the interface design from concept through structure and interaction to the finished surface in the browser. The initial focus is on the dashboards. At Illume, you will take over the creative further development of an already well-developed platform.
- You write the texts for the interfaces, including labels, microtexts, error messages, explanations, onboarding elements, and notifications.
- You will further develop our Pattern Library: a documented design system based on semantic HTML, CSS Custom Properties, and native Web Components.
- They consider accessibility according to BITV 2.0 and WCAG 2.2 AA from the outset in the design.
- They gather feedback from the target groups and translate it into well-informed design decisions.
- You create visual materials for presentations, publications, and conference contributions.
- You work closely with software architecture and development, in the same repository and on the same development rhythm.
Our expectations of you
Education
- You have at least a Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Communication Design, Media Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field. Alternatively, you possess relevant vocational training with several years of pertinent professional experience.
Qualifications
- Portfolio with interfaces you have supported through to production deployment.
- Good knowledge of HTML and CSS, as well as the ability to implement designs directly in the browser.
- Proficient handling of digital accessibility requirements Good command of English for documentation and communication.
- Proficient in at least one programming language (preferably JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Knowledge of the higher education context or other highly regulated environments.
Experience
- Fluent German language skills, at least C2 level, and demonstrable experience in writing user-oriented interface texts.
- Experience with information design and data visualization, especially with graph and dependency representations.
- Experience with Learning Management Systems, especially Moodle - where dashboards for students are embedded.
- Experience with design systems shared across multiple applications.
- Experience with user research on a small scale: interviews, usability tests, analysis.
- Experience in open-source projects.
What we offer
- A design role with exceptionally high creative freedom.
- Products with high visibility both within and outside the university.
- Open-source releases that can become part of your portfolio.
- Direct collaboration with development and software architecture.
- Short decision-making paths.
- Modern technical infrastructure.
- Extensive opportunities for remote work.
- Further training and development opportunities.
- The advantages of employment in the public sector.
- Above all, you can look forward to the opportunity to shape a project that will influence the future of data-informed teaching at Germany's only state distance university and whose results will have an impact far beyond Hagen.
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About your employer
The FernUniversität in Hagen is certainly unique. For 40 years, it has been the state distance-learning university in the German-speaking world and thus offers an incomparable academic education for those who do not want or cannot enroll at a traditional university. With its comprehensive range of teaching and learning materials, it is the right choice for anyone seeking a full academic education.
- 1974
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Education System
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