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User Experience Designer

Eingestellt von Synectics

Gesuchte Skills: Design, Photoshop, Html, Client

Projektbeschreibung

Responsible for designing creative, intuitive web sites that meet the needs of the end user while ensuring business and marketing objectives, client goals, and brand strategies are satisfied. Works closely with a multi-disciplinary team (which may include information architect, customer experience analyst, writers, usability specialist, project managers, and other designers as well as with the technical and product strategy teams) in a user centered, iterative development process that ensures a quality customer experience. The UX Designer requires little supervision and is responsible for the on-target, on-time delivery of multiple projects.

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

  • Einsatzort:

    Lincolnshire, Vereinigte Staaten

  • Projektbeginn:

    asap

  • Projektdauer:

    Keine Angabe

  • Vertragsart:

    Contract

  • Berufserfahrung:

    Keine Angabe

Geforderte Qualifikationen

Synectics