ECS Limited is hiring: UI/UX Designer in Arlington

ECS is seeking a UI/UX Designer to work in our Arlington, VA office. Responsibilities to include: • Will serve as a designer in the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) External Services Directorate, responsible for user experience and interface design • Quickly yet thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors • Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications • Engage with stakeholders to do evaluation of needs, goals, mission, values, and overall objectives of site • Solicit and incorporate feedback from CIGIE/USPS OIG/IG Community subject matter and technical experts throughout the engagement. • Leverage the U.S. design standards to the greatest extent possible • Limit custom coding to the greatest extent possible to promote efficient knowledge-transfer and cost-effective in-house maintenance • Throughout development, when significant design choices are required, develop multiple concepts for feedback from CIGIE/USPS OIG/IG Community POCs • Serve as the liaison to the web developers to ensure the visual elements are built as designed within reasonable technical capacity. • Test applications from a UX standpoint to spot design inconsistencies or other visual errors. • At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role • Conceptual understanding of User Interface Design and the Design Process • Intermediate to advanced user of Adobe Creative Suite (or other designer tools) • Intermediate level of HTML, CSS and Bootstrap • Basic JavaScript skills • Understanding of Less and Sass • Understanding of responsive design and touch interface interaction techniques and be in sync with recent design standards and trends • Understanding of the limitations of web and mobile, with approaches/ideas to flex those boundaries. A solid portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions across multiple interfaces and screen sizes • Create user-centered designs for software projects by considering customer feedback • Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of new web and on-device software applications • Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience • Breakdown complex requirements and concepts into well-thought visual designs and workflows • Ability to work collaboratively with developers, project managers, and cross-functional teams to ensure that designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals • Experience creating UI specs & wireframes. Flexibility and willingness to move from idea, to whiteboard, to execution quickly and provide choices to stakeholders • Participates in testing, validating own and others' functionality • Experience in proposing and executing new interactive graphics based on existing data, with the goal of making the data already collect more accessible and interactive • Ability to improve the "user paths" on the site, ensuring that users' destinations can be reached in a minimum of clicks • Modernize and improve existing graphics, fonts, and other design elements, with the goal of achieving a modern-looking website