User Experience Designer
Responsibilities
- While concentrating on delivering the best user experience, filling a variety of sometimes unforeseen project needs will be expected
- Use initiative, creativity and innovation to drive effective design and process ideas to fruition
- Produce appealing, engaging and usable interface design solutions that optimize among customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities
- Directly responsible for all aspects of design, from delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications
- Compare, contrast, and prioritize various design solutions, taking technical, resource, and time constraints into account
- Leverage rapid prototyping and frequent customer interactions to inform design directions
- Work with Development and Quality Assurance Teams to scope projects, and ensure designs are implemented and tested to specifications
- Track and report project status
- Proactively identify project risks and escalate issues as appropriate
- Set reasonable expectations for deliverables, and reset when necessary by engaging decision makers at appropriate levels
- Stay up to date with new technologies and industry trends, from the core applications being developed to new design tools
Requirements and Skills
- Strong portfolio available for viewing
- Minimum BA/BS degree in product/interaction design, human factors or related field or equivalent experience
- 2-5 years of user interface design experience with Web applications and sites
- Flexibility, intelligence, versatility and proactive volunteering to identify any project needs and meeting them creatively
- Expertise with design tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Visio
- Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. wireframes, prototypes, presentations, etc)
- Knowledge of web technologies and their impact on design feasibility
- Tolerant of a range of project types, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation
- Ability to switch easily between different projects and flexibility to handle a rapidly changing environment
Please submit cover letter, resume and online/digital reels with samples of your professional work along with a breakdown of your specific contributions to – please list “USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER” in the subject line.
