UI Designer 2

The Usability Design Professional is

• Responsible for designing user interfaces for our client’s software products and customer solutions
• Specializing in the UI information architecture, navigation, interaction and interface aspects of the software.
• Practices ISO based user centered design methodology driven from product vision, business and user requirements.
• Responsible for usability research, consulting and validation of the software.
• Works closely with PDM, development and the customer
• Collaborates with usability experts and interaction designers located overseas (Israel and India)
• Engaged in projects ranging from prototypes to large scale applications across multiple channels.

Key Responsibilities

1. Understand and translate business requirements, and user tasks and expectations into compelling user experiences.
2. Create interfaces that take into consideration content, navigational structure, human-machine interaction, and non-functional constrains.
3. Prepare wireframes and/or storyboards. Review with key stakeholders, make adjustments based on feedback and obtain final approval
4. Be service oriented and able to present, explain and justify designs to stakeholders
5. Consistently advocate for the user’s interests, yet balancing professional perfectionism with real world project constraints
6. Collaborate with customer, PDM and development teams during design phases and subsequent development support cycles
7. Collaborate with other designers to ensure concepts and designs are consistent with the overall branding strategy and marketing initiatives
8. Employ and execute a wide range of usability tools, such as heuristic review, metrics, usability testing, etc. either as part of design projects or as standalone activities
9. Provide guidance / review feedback on how to improve usability of existing software
10. Be familiar with cognitive psychology aspects of user interfaces, usability heuristics, emerging user interface trends and industry best practices.

Qualifications

Education Requirements
Academic bachelor degree (BA/BS) in Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction (ADVANTAGE) or related field or equivalent work experience

Critical Experiences

Perks:

• Accommodation
• Food
• Travel Allowance
• Training
• Sports and Activities
• Paid Vacations

• 2 + years of UX design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Design user stories and workflows
• Rapid prototyping
• Assembling comprehensive UI design briefs
• Personas creation
• Wireframes
• Exceptional presentation abilities
• Knowledge of HTML5 & CSS3 is a bonus
• Java script, .Net, is a bonus