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User Experience Designer
Eingestellt von Synectics
Gesuchte Skills: Design, Photoshop, Html, Client
Projektbeschreibung
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develops, refines, and implements high quality customer experiences using strong information architecture, visual design, and customer experience skills;
- Influences and defines requirements by being a key contributor and advocating for a consistent customer experience and creation of/adherence to guiding principles;
- Represents the user in requirements discussions;
- Applies visual design, information architecture, and user experience knowledge and expertise to achieve highest quality solution;
- Visualizes concepts;
- Translates requirements into a visual prototype;
- Designs solutions that effectively communicate messages and concepts to users;
- Effectively communicates and documents rationale for the design solutions; uses communication skills to influence decisions;
- Delivers solutions on time;
- Fully understands and is able to articulate project goals, business requirements, user needs, and technical constraints; able to grasp a business problem, see it in terms of user needs, and then design elegant solutions;
- Communicates effectively by recognizing audience needs and tailoring written, verbal, and visual communication to provide the necessary information;
- Actively listens, considers, and incorporates others' ideas into solutions;
- Advocates for the user;
- Considers the composition of the audience and delivers communication at the appropriate level of detail, (eg, provides high-level "executive summary" or quick project highlights to leadership); provides detailed technical specs to project team.
- Collaborates with project team in the execution of projects to achieve quality customer experiences.
- Ensures solutions balance our concerns for profitability, client expectations and desires, end user satisfaction, ease of implementation, and operational efficiency.
- Advocates for a consistent customer experience and creation of/adherence to guiding principles.
- Collaborates with the User Experience team to develop usable, useful, and desirable solutions.
- Uses strong decision making skills and judgment to keep projects moving forward within scope and budget.
- Works with usability specialists to evaluate the design solution.
- Understands business goals including scope and timing.
- Builds trusted partnerships.
- Ensures Product Quality.
- Designs solutions that meet established quality standards.
- Reviews solutions to ensure the highest quality is achieved, particularly for the user experience.
- Identifies and implements process improvements that would facilitate greater quality
- Ensures quality and consistency across projects/project components.
- Ensures that requirements and changes are incorporated in a quality manner and on time.
- Uses "Tools of the Trade" to create and execute solutions.
- Effectively uses Photoshop, HTML, and other tools to develop solutions and prototypes.
SKILLS:
EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years design experience-of which three most recent have been web-focused
- Bachelors or advanced degree in design
- Strong online portfolio of work to demonstrate skills
- Technical skills including: Adobe Photoshop, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript.
- Success working in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment
- Designing for portal-based web sites using responsive design concepts strongly preferred
- Javascript frameworks such as jQuery or YUI strongly preferred
- HTML5 and CSS3 preferred
- Designing Accessible (WCAG 2.0 compliant) web sites
COMPETENCIES
- Excellent visual and user interface (UI) design skills
- Strong typography, information design, interactive/web design, conceptual, and communication design skills
- Excellent abilities to visualize, structure, and prototype solutions
- Extensive knowledge of Adobe Photoshop
- Knowledge, use and creation of templates, library items and site definitions
- Working knowledge of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript
- Possesses a broad understanding of the Internet and E-business services
- Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentations skills, including the ability to communicate intangibles
- Highly motivated, creative, and detail oriented
- Ability to handle multiple tasks under pressure while maintaining Adaptability/Flexibility and resourcefulness
- Ability to work effectively on a team or independently, with little direction
- Actively pursues new knowledge and insights and applies learning in his/her own role; advocates and follows his/her own personal development plan
- Challenges associates to grow by helping them identify and meet their developmental needs and apply learning appropriately; engages in cross-functional learning for his/her own development
- Strong Teamwork
- Demonstrates and applies a breadth of knowledge that crosses multiple functions/fields; transfers his/her own knowledge to help others become more effective
- Incorporates the perspectives of people with diverse perspectives into own work
- Provides quality solutions, on time and within budget, with little or no guidance; stays current on client's business and desired results; acts proactively to meet client expectations
- Provides Coaching and Feedback
- Continuous Improvement - Monitors results against targets and operational measures to identify process improvement projects; makes suggestions to improve quality of processes, products or services; applies process improvement principles appropriately in his/her own work
- Strong Financial Management skills
- Industry and Market Knowledge - Uses up-to-date knowledge of the industry and competitive forces to accomplish objectives
- Builds peer networks to enhance his/her own understanding of the firm; uses his/her own understanding of the firm to improve contribution
Projektdetails
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Einsatzort:
Lincolnshire, Vereinigte Staaten
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Projektbeginn:
asap
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Projektdauer:
Keine Angabe
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Berufserfahrung:
Keine Angabe
Geforderte Qualifikationen
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Kategorie:
IT Entwicklung, Medien/Design