Resource Point LLC
Job Description
Job Description
Role: Senior UX Designer
Location: Detroit, MI (Once in week onsite)
Duration: 12 Months
Description:
- User experience is part strategy, part research, part design.
- The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end-user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives.
- The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers.
- The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end-users using human-centered design principles and best practices.
Required Skills:
- Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:
- User research:
- Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
- Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products
- UX design:
- Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred), Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch or Adobe XD.
- Demonstrate using human-centered design principles and best practices.
- Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success
- Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes in order to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.
- Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)
- Plans, sets up and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
- Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer's touchpoints with a product
- Researches current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
- Structure, organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users
- Iterates on designs based on user feedback
- Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in related field required
- Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.