Job Responsibilities:
- Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including mobile, desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
- Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
- Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations.
- Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.
- Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influenced the decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
- Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Delivers work that’s not only user-friendly, aesthetically engaging, but which also produces results.
- Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
- Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
- Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
- Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
- Contributes to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.
UX Designer Qualifications / Skills:
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design
- Strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
- Experience in a highly Agile/scrum environment
- Ability to work in a startup environment
Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 5+ years equivalent professional experience
- Master’s in Human Factors, HCDE, or Cognitive Psychology a plus
- 3+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
- A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions
- Experience designing and shipping products for mobile and desktop
- Experience with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Invision, Sketch, Hype, Axure, and Keynote
Thanks,
Josh Freidus
Technical Recruiter
YOH, A DAY & ZIMMERMANN COMPANY
C 215-614-9391
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