About This Role
This role involves designing user-friendly, visually engaging websites and web page layouts that support Associated Students' programs, services, and communications. The Web Designer works collaboratively to develop and coordinate a wide range of web pages, requiring extensive knowledge of specialized design concepts and media.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, plan, design, and produce user-centric web pages with high attention to detail on a Mac platform using industry-standard software and languages
- Maintain all web pages and files, making corrections and updates as needed, and ensuring all A.S. websites and published files are ADA compliant
- Design and develop responsive, accessible websites using development tools and languages consistent with modern UI/UX and web development best practices
- Create wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes, appropriate to project requirements
- Collaborate with designers and developers to ensure visually accurate and high-quality implementation of approved designs, prototypes, and branding guidelines
- Maintain, update, and troubleshoot existing web pages and web-based tools as needed
- Implement functional, standards-compliant code that performs across devices and browsers
- Optimize web pages and web files for speed, SEO performance, and best practices in caching, image handling, and asset loading
- Apply established web security principles to prevent vulnerabilities and protect user data
- Collaborate on the design and implementation of database-driven features, including building and modifying CMS, writing mySQL queries, integrating with PHP-based systems, and ensuring secure, optimized data handling
- Design and create optimized custom CMS, queries, database integration, and output pages ensuring secure optimized data handling to support department and program needs
- Conduct accessibility and quality assurance testing using browser tools, diagnostic software, and manual review to validate functionality, compliance, and usability
- Design, manage, and build optimized HTML emails for A.S. communications, ensuring consistent rendering across major email clients and devices, as needed
- Produce proofs and coordinate proofing with appropriate A.S. staff, in conjunction with the Graphics Manager
- Provide oversight of the Graphics Department in the absence of the Graphics Manager and Graphics Specialist
- Assist in conceptualizing, planning, designing, and producing a wide range of specialized print and/or illustrative material, as needed, using the Mac-based Adobe Creative Suite
- Participate actively in production and marketing planning group sessions and meetings
- Assist the department with special tasks and projects as assigned
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