Visual UX Designer

INTRODUCTION

The IT infrastructure, hardware and applications are mission-critical for the internal and external activities.The 'User Experience & Mobile Apps' team within IT creates user-facing solutions that enable employees to work more efficiently and effectively, that are quickly adopted and continuously used, and that provide a consistent user experience across applications, devices and locations. Our work concerns custom applications as well as adaptations to standard software. The software ranges from desktop applications used in the offices, to mobile applications used in our factories, to applications for wearable devices used in our customers' cleanrooms.

JOB MISSION

Your goal is to realize significant user experience improvements of our business software applications, in order to increase user efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction and adoption. You will work on a few projects/applications at the same time, for which you will create high-fidelity, 'pixel perfect' screen designs. You will work closely together with the UX specialist and UI developer in these projects to ensure that designs are not just attractive but also based on the Design System and feasible for implementation in a UI framework such as Angular Material. Furthermore, you will pro-actively share challenges and best practices with your ±10 peer designers from the UX&Mobile team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

-Create and improve screen designs (incl. typography and iconography), which have a good visual hierarchy and bring a bit of joy and Zen to our data-intensive, high-pressure work environment.
-Ensure consistency within the application and with the Design System and/or suggest improvements for it, in collaboration with your peers from the UX team.
-Ensure that your visuals are specified and feasible within the projects' UI development frameworks (eg Angular Material), in collaboration with the UI developers.
-Present and explain your work to other disciplines on the project team, such as the product owner, IT architect, development lead and project lead.
-Apart from visual design work, you may also support the UX specialist with user research, interaction design, usability testing and UX consulting.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's or Master's degree in an area such as Art, Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, or Industrial Design.

EXPERIENCE

-Highly skilled at using a digital design tool such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch or Axure.
-A portfolio with convincing samples of work, with a focus on data-intensive apps, used in corporate environments. -Familiarity with Google Material Design and/or Angular Material.
-Familiarity with responsive design. -Familiarity with agile/scrum/DevOps.
-Ability to plan work and deliver on agreed goals independently.
-Ability to collaborate effectively with other disciplines.
-Ability to work under time pressure and rapidly changing project conditions.
-Fluent in English, verbal and written. Profound knowledge of Dutch is a plus.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.