Garmin Ltd.
Product Designer 1 - Outdoor and Fitness
Garmin Ltd., Olathe, Kansas, us, 66051
OverviewGarmin is seeking a full-time
Product Designer 1
to join our Outdoor and Fitness group at our Olathe, KS location. You will be a part of a team designing user experiences for a highly diverse range of Garmin’s product interfaces including wearables, satellite communicators, golf, scuba diving, cycling, backcountry navigation, tactical tools and more. Your designs will help users explore the great outdoors, stay connected and enable rescues in remote locations, dive amongst coral reefs, enable performance athletes to train more effectively, and bring new levels of analysis to golfers around the world.In this UX-focused role, you will be paired with a design mentor and be responsible for understanding, ideating, and creating compelling, well-crafted designs for new features and functions for many of our products. Success involves understanding and applying fundamental usability and user-centered design principles, working amongst many groups and stakeholders to hone your design, and guiding software user interface development, working closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders of your assigned projects.Essential FunctionsResearches, designs and prototypes new user experiences for new features and productsCommunicates research and designs using mockups, storyboarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentationProduces creative, simple, and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behaviorAssists with new user interface testing and conducts usability tests to get feedback on new designsCollaborates with and communicates to teams in engineering and product managers to produce superior solutionsMaintains and ensures user interface design and behavioral consistency across product typesRemains current on user interface design trends and competitors’ designStays abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and softwareApplies design standards and procedures to implement basic designs and applies engineering tools when neededBasic QualificationsBachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user-centered design principlesExcellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating different types of prototypes or mock-ups using tools such as FigmaExcellent presentation, communication, and organizational skillsDemonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, usability)Desired QualificationsOutstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)Technical knowledge to bridge gaps between engineering and design environmentsDeep curiosity for learning and an excitement for solving challenging problemsPassion for Garmin products or the experiences they seek to enhanceExperience in mobile UX designGarmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
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Product Designer 1
to join our Outdoor and Fitness group at our Olathe, KS location. You will be a part of a team designing user experiences for a highly diverse range of Garmin’s product interfaces including wearables, satellite communicators, golf, scuba diving, cycling, backcountry navigation, tactical tools and more. Your designs will help users explore the great outdoors, stay connected and enable rescues in remote locations, dive amongst coral reefs, enable performance athletes to train more effectively, and bring new levels of analysis to golfers around the world.In this UX-focused role, you will be paired with a design mentor and be responsible for understanding, ideating, and creating compelling, well-crafted designs for new features and functions for many of our products. Success involves understanding and applying fundamental usability and user-centered design principles, working amongst many groups and stakeholders to hone your design, and guiding software user interface development, working closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders of your assigned projects.Essential FunctionsResearches, designs and prototypes new user experiences for new features and productsCommunicates research and designs using mockups, storyboarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentationProduces creative, simple, and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behaviorAssists with new user interface testing and conducts usability tests to get feedback on new designsCollaborates with and communicates to teams in engineering and product managers to produce superior solutionsMaintains and ensures user interface design and behavioral consistency across product typesRemains current on user interface design trends and competitors’ designStays abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and softwareApplies design standards and procedures to implement basic designs and applies engineering tools when neededBasic QualificationsBachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user-centered design principlesExcellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating different types of prototypes or mock-ups using tools such as FigmaExcellent presentation, communication, and organizational skillsDemonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, usability)Desired QualificationsOutstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)Technical knowledge to bridge gaps between engineering and design environmentsDeep curiosity for learning and an excitement for solving challenging problemsPassion for Garmin products or the experiences they seek to enhanceExperience in mobile UX designGarmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
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