Mindlance
Designer UX Standard II Job at Mindlance in Washington
Mindlance, Washington, DC, United States, 20022
Position Summary:
Title: Designer UX Standard II
Duration: 6 Months - Long Term
Location: Washington, DC
Hybrid Onsite: 2/3 days onsite per week from Day 1.
Position Overview:
The User Experience Designer will perform the full range of responsibilities associated with user-centered design methodology for software development. He/she will also conduct reviews of software products and provide guidance on how to remediate usability issues. He/she must be able to explain usability principles and techniques to both technical team members and business sponsors.
Essential Job Functions:
Educational Qualifications and Experiences:
o Information architecture, navigation design
o Interaction design and graphic design
o User modeling and task analysis
o Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript a plus
Required Skills/Abilities:
Title: Designer UX Standard II
Duration: 6 Months - Long Term
Location: Washington, DC
Hybrid Onsite: 2/3 days onsite per week from Day 1.
Position Overview:
The User Experience Designer will perform the full range of responsibilities associated with user-centered design methodology for software development. He/she will also conduct reviews of software products and provide guidance on how to remediate usability issues. He/she must be able to explain usability principles and techniques to both technical team members and business sponsors.
Essential Job Functions:
- Interact directly with business sponsors and subject matter experts to understand business and functional requirements and constraints, and converting them into appealing, highly usable interfaces.
- Engage with the business development team and/or customer early in the project lifecycle to seek a deeper appreciation of the customers business problems and goals.
- Develop an understanding of the end users of the websites/applications to be developed by conducting primary and secondary research, including user interviews, traffic data, existing systems, enterprise guidelines, etc., and communicate findings of user research
- Carry out user modeling and task analysis, and develop personas and scenarios
- Create wireframes and visual design mockups as needed in order to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed user interaction behaviors.
- Ensure application-level consistency with respect to visual design and interaction components
- Prepare low fidelity prototypes of sites/features ranging from draft concepts to wireframes or interactive prototypes for internal review and brainstorming.
- Create or advise on content architecture and navigation design, Design page level layout, page flow, and task fulfillment
- Propose design solutions for identified usability problems in existing applications
- Present low and high-fidelity designs/mockups to clients for review, iteration, and approval.
- Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience.
- Make recommendations to solve complex interaction problems and improve overall user experience within an application and across different applications
- Conduct heuristic reviews of websites and web applications
Educational Qualifications and Experiences:
- Bachelors degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Web Design, or similar field
- High level of visual design expertise
- Experience with the following:
o Information architecture, navigation design
o Interaction design and graphic design
o User modeling and task analysis
o Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript a plus
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Proven experience designing responsive websites.
- Strong visual design skills; Able to explain his/her design philosophy verbally and in writing.
- Advanced skills in Photoshop, UX prototyping, Illustrator, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, InVision, wireframing, and other mapping tools.
- Track record of solving cross-browser/cross-platform UI compatibility issues.
- Cutting-edge knowledge of most recent UX/ UI design standards and trends. Advanced knowledge of visual design, and information architecture.
- Proficient understanding of the limitations of web and mobile application design, with ideas to flex those boundaries, strong understanding of technical feasibility of their designed prototypes.
- Advanced understanding of the trade-offs between optimum user experience and technical, information security, business constraints, and ability to propose optimized designs within those constraints
- Demonstrable astuteness regarding aesthetics in web design, including layout, grid systems, color theory and typography.
- Capable of working directly with clients in an iterative and agile manner to dramatically improve prototypes in a short time.
- Competency in the following technologies: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap.
- Advanced knowledge of graphic design and accessibility principles
- Advanced understanding of information systems, application development standards and life cycle methodologies, particularly in a large-scale, Agile context
- Knowledge of storyboarding/prototyping, Axure, usability testing, and survey tools
- Knowledge of interaction design
- Familiarity with principles of human computer interaction
- Strong interpersonal, communication skills and a team player
- Ability to produce deliverables within tight deadline.