Role: Senior UX Designer
Location: Detroit MI (Once in week onsite)
Duration: 12 Months
Description:
- User experience is part strategy part research part design.
- 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.
- The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction collaborating with content writers and UI designers.
- The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable accessible and delightful to endusers using humancentered design principles and best practices.
Required Skills:
- Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:
- User research:
- Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
- Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products
- UX design:
- Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes prototypes and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred) Axure Balsamiq Sketch or Adobe XD.
- Demonstrate using humancentered design principles and best practices.
- Participates in requirementgathering activities to identify business needs user goals and measures of success
- Visualizes concepts and design through sketches wireframes and prototypes in order to validate product concepts with users team members and stakeholders.
- Establishes buyin and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)
- Plans sets up and executes on remote or inperson usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
- Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customers touchpoints with a product
- Researches current design and technology trends cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
- Structure organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users
- Iterates on designs based on user feedback
- Advocates for humancentered design through evangelization and relationshipbuilding
Education:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in related field required
- Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.