Ui/Ux Designer

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience.

• Executes all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering.

• Conceptualizes original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks.

• Collaborates with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience.

• Provides user experience and design guidance to 3rd-party design teams. Work with 3rd-party design teams and assesses 3rd-party designed interfaces

• Executes all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering.

• Conceptualizes original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks.

• Creates wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.

• Presents and defends designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive-level stakeholders.

• Plans and conducts user research, user testing, and evaluates user feedback.

• Ensures that approved prototypes are followed by implementing fidelity checks during and/or after development.

• Promotes design usability guidelines, best practices, and standards.

• Mentors junior team members regarding UI/UX design.

• Other job-related activities may be assigned from time to time.

• Related Work Experience – At least 3  years of experience in UI/UX design in software development.

• Provides fluency and expertise in the UX process, practices and deliverables to the team and client using industry-recognized UI/UX standards (i.e.. CUA - Certified Usability Analyst )

• Owns design for several features and mid-sized projects

• Creates designs based on user research, user experience analysis and based on standard techniques and tools

• Tests the usability and accessibility of components and alternative designs.

• Conducts evaluations, records data and feedback. Analyses evaluation data, recommends and addresses actions.

• Contributes to influencing user-oriented product KPIs (i.e. user adoption, user retention/churn rate, etc)

• Works effectively with internal and external stakeholders - able to articulate design decisions and elicit feedback.

• Knowledge –  Knowledgeable in the following:

• Demonstrable UI/UX design skills with a strong portfolio showcasing at least the ff: Web Application Designs (40%) Mobile App Designs (40%) Static Website Designs (20%)

• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction.

• Exceptional visual, interaction, production design skills to create wireframes that communicate user workflows.

• Deep understanding of design deliverables such as information architecture maps, workflow documentation, wireframes, visual designs as well as a thorough knowledge of design tools.

• Up-to-date with the latest UI/UX trends, techniques, and technologies - Strong Prototyping and Wireframing skills using any of the design tools: Prototyping: Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, Marvel InVision, Balsamiq, Axure.

• An eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.

• Understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and the ability to create prototypes.