Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a health insurance company. It offers different types of health care coverage plans that include individual and family dental and vision plans for employers etc.
Title: UX Designer Senior
Work Location: Detroit MI 48226
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Dept: Transparency
Engagement Description:
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User experience is part strategy part research part design.
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The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs enduser insights and the competitive landscape to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives.
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The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction collaborating with content writers and UI designers.
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The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable accessible and delightful to endusers using humancentered design principles and best practices.
Top 3 Required Skills/Experience The most important musthave skills. Include:
Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:
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User research
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Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
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Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products
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UX design
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Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes prototypes and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred) Axure Balsamiq Sketch or Adobe XD.
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Demonstrate using humancentered design principles and best practices.
Required Skills/Experience The rest of the required skills/experience.
Include:
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Participates in requirementgathering activities to identify business needs user goals and measures of success
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Visualizes concepts and design through sketches wireframes and prototypes in order to validate product concepts with users team members and stakeholders.
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Establishes buyin and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)
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Plans sets up and executes on remote or inperson usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
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Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customers touchpoints with a product
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Research current design and technology trends cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
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Structure organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users
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Iterates on designs based on user feedback
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Advocates for humancentered design through evangelization and relationshipbuilding
Preferred Skills/Experience Optional but preferred skills/experience. Include:
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Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
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Experience creating and aligning to a design systems Building style guides pattern libraries and design toolkits to codify a products design language.
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Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
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Experience leading a project and/or team. Strong leadership skills.
Education/Certifications Include:
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Bachelors degree in related field required
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Masters degree in related field preferred
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Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.