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Title: UX Architect
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (Hybrid position -- 3 days in office)
Duration:6+Months Contract
Parking:-- Amount varies per parking area. Also public transportation available.
Description:
Responsibilities include:
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate is passionate yet patient; confident yet humble. They take initiative to thoroughly understand our customers and the finance industry. They are driven to create findable, usable, world-class experiences. This candidate loves collaboration and can articulately communicate and clearly translate functional objectives into detailed experience specifications.
Skills
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (Hybrid position -- 3 days in office)
Duration:6+Months Contract
Parking:-- Amount varies per parking area. Also public transportation available.
Description:
- Experience Designers at client are customer obsessed in developing human-centered experiences that provide personalized, clear, helpful, and inclusive digital plus human solutions for our customers.
- Experience designers consider the why, what, and how of product use to help identify where user needs intersect with business goals across the entire user journey.
- Leverages human-centered design methods (design-thinking, service design, research/insights, etc.) to plan, create, and present persuasive, engaging, and strategic ideas that influence product roadmaps and demonstrate a solution's potential for success. Performs competitive analysis of direct/indirect competitors and monitors the marketplace for new trends to inform the research and design process.
- Partners with product managers, content strategists, research specialists, developers, testers, and compliance specialists to translate requirements into experience architectures.
Responsibilities include:
- Employs a range of human-centered, accessible design techniques, such as conceptual models, personas, user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes, to determine and convey design decisions.
- Optimizes experience architecture to promote findability and usability, while accommodating technical and business needs/constraints.
- Reviews artifacts and deliverables from peers to ensure they accurately represent or improve upon the client layout, design and interaction patterns.
- Accurately interprets how the client brand is applied to interaction modules, screen layouts, style guides, pattern libraries, images, icons and other visual elements.
- Formally observes user interviews and usability sessions.
- Works concurrently on multiple tasks or projects in an agile environment.
- Delivers assets of record, e.g., wireframes, versioned prototypes, flow / process diagrams, etc.
- Participates in validating code is built as designed during projects (according to brand standards, style guides and pattern libraries).
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (preferred Client on Service Design, Experience Architecture or Information Architecture), or equivalent experience
- Five to eight years of related work experience, such as UX or digital industry, with at least one year of team leadership experience
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Thorough knowledge of user experience (UX) best practices, interactive design principles, information architecture and experience architecture; Service Design knowledge a plus
- Thorough knowledge of design thinking process and framework, and familiarization with workshop and co-creations
- Thorough knowledge of website architecture, interactive design principles, web usability, and online marketing and business needs
- Experience with user-centered design from concept to delivery
- Experience/familiarity with CSS and responsive design
- Familiar with common design software
- Experience working in a cross-channel environment, including desktop/laptop, mobile, devices and brick-and-mortar locations; internal facing systems experience a plus
- Experience collaborating with large teams
- Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills
- Ability to problem-solve and work independently
The ideal candidate is passionate yet patient; confident yet humble. They take initiative to thoroughly understand our customers and the finance industry. They are driven to create findable, usable, world-class experiences. This candidate loves collaboration and can articulately communicate and clearly translate functional objectives into detailed experience specifications.
Skills
- Sketch
- Adobe Creative
- InVision
- Omnigraffle
- Marvel