Key purpose:
Were on the lookout for a Senior UX/UI Designer who wants to see their art concepts and designs come to life on the online realm. Candidates need to be trendy but disciplined. Were looking for nononsense hardworking people with a cando attitude.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Experience of design lead user research and user journeys to ensure optimum experience
- Inclusive leader and communicator who uses these skills to identify and resolve issues with both clients stakeholders and the team
- Provide leadership for other designers by conducting design reviews ensuring best practices are followed consistently across the project and by providing feedback on their designs
- Provide leadership to clients and shareholders around design and user experience
- Create compelling design artefacts (user stories personas sitemaps wireframes prototypes storyboards etc.) to effectively communicate UX needs to internal teams and stakeholders. Have the ability to create wireframes user flows visual design assets and interactive prototypes/high fidelity mockups
- Conduct design sprints or workshops to collect and evaluate business goals and user needs
- Have the ability to create polished productionready UI designs
- Understand scope requirements and drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals and metrics
- Take initiative within projects anticipate challenges and meet deadlines
- Stay up to date with latest design and technology trends
- Share your knowledge with wider team
- External clientfacing experience necessary
- Present design work confidently to clients and stakeholders and build trusting relationships
- Collaborating on user experience planning with technical leads and product owners
- Ensure projects and tasks are delivered on time and on budget and to the highest quality
- Are familiarity with design sprints and the agile methodology
- Create style tiles UI kits mood boards and style guides
- Deliver responsive and systematic designs through an agile methodology
- User interface design for apps mobile web and responsive web
- Creative and conceptual abilities for digital and social campaigns
- Understanding of designing to enhance the users online experience
Qualifications and experience:
- 5 years or more experience in a digitallyfocused UX/UI design role
- Strong portfolio of work
- Strong communication leadership and management skills
- Ability to work autonomously and and as part of a team
- Experience conducting design sprints or workshops with clients
- Up to date knowledge of current web design trends and techniques
- Proficient in usercentred design methodologies and design thinking
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (focusing on Adobe XD) and MS Office
- Basic HTML and CSS knowledge
- Understanding of marketing and digital strategy UI UX and information architecture
- Designing with usability/information architecture in mind
Brownie points:
- A certified course on UX / UI design and/or design sprints
- Agile development methodologies
- Confluence / Jira
- Experience in HTML5 CSS3 and other front end web technologies is a distinct advantage
- jQuery/Bootstrap/AngularJS/JavaScript Frameworks
- Illustration & animation skills
- Photography
- Motion graphics
- Mobile design experience
- Experience with CMS systems (eg. WordPress / Drupal) and website support
- Proficient on Apple Mac