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Visual Designer

Lime Wire LLC is looking for a Visual Designer. The role of a visual designer is to balance usability with desirability using color, style, type, icons, information design and visual hierarchy to indicate relationships, communicate about brand, and hint at the behavior of LimeWire. You will be working closely with user experience designers and user interface developers to iteratively refine a visual system that supports the interaction and makes people enjoy spending time with LimeWire. You should be able to present your design rationale based on the brand, user goals, and usability, rather than personal opinion.

Responsibilities:
• Work with and design desktop and web applications
• Take functioning Flash prototypes and define several visual styles for them
• Create a visual language that helps achieve brand and user goals

Requirements:
• B.S. in graphic design, communication design, information design, or other visual arts.
• Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating design rationale
• Can crank out multiple unique stylistic approaches to a problem
• Understanding of interface and interaction design principles
• Can communicate clearly about design, from presentations to writing style guides
• Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of common GUI technologies
• Expert in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

About Lime Wire

Lime Wire LLC is the maker of the most popular file-sharing software in the world.

Lime Wire prides itself on its great products, one of the most engaged user bases in the world, and an incredible team of talent. Since launching the LimeWire application in 2000, we have continuously sought ways to empower our users. Recently, we have been busy with the launch of the LimeWire Store and creating more ways for Lime Wire’s peer-to-peer community to connect.

Still, we are determined to do much more and seek gifted and inspired people to join our team.

We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and great perks including 5 weeks of vacation per year, free lunches, snacks and drinks, tickets to cultural and athletic events, company-sponsored outings, fabulous rooftop parties, and coworkers who are also great friends. Located in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, we foster a happy, healthy work environment where a free exchange of ideas is encouraged. Ideal candidates thrive in our do-it-yourself, entrepreneurial atmosphere.

Interested in Lime Wire? We look forward to hearing from you.