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IT and Engineering > UX Designer

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Short Description:

Establishes user experience when interacting with certain products, typically computer software, apps (mobile and tablet applications), and other digitally driven media. Provides prototypes and deliverables to describe interactions and motion to enhance the user interface. Conducts user research, testing, and optimization of new and existing devices and delivers analyses to senior executives. Uses Agile, Scrum, or other methods, such as contextual inquiry, field research, or 1-on-1 usability testing sessions, to study and develop applications. Advances the overall quality of strategic thinking and design as applied to technology. 

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Work with the product teams to help define product goals and requirements and represent the user's point of view throughout the product planning process.
  • Ability to think through user flows and translate them to visual designs.
  • Own every aspect of a product's design, from initial concept solving the core challenges and wireframing to shipping a well-tested and pixel-perfect UI.
  • Prototype and deliver multiple iterations and versions of a design fast and efficiently.
  • Establish and promote design guidelines and best practices with an eye for simplicity.
  • Work with the product management and engineering leadership to improve the design and product development process.
  • Build out new features while evolving the existing user experience of our customers.

Skills / Requirements / Qualifications

  • Active Learning: Understanding new information's implications for current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the audience's needs.

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  • Specific Vocational Preparation in years: 1-2 years of preparation (6.0 to 7.0)

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