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Short Description: Experienced User Interface (UI) designer to ensure quality product look, feel, and flow. User Experience (UX) designer expertise to ensure an efficient and effective screen design and facilitate a positive user experience with our software products.
Complete Description: Years of Experience:
8-11 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
Job Description:
Our area supports more than 300 systems for Quality of Life (QOL) agencies which impact the environment, natural resources, public health/safety, and agriculture and agritourism economies. Business Analysts fill essential roles in the development and support of mission critical projects in the QOL project portfolio. They also lead business process design, re-engineering, and requirements elicitation that deliver more effective solutions for our clients.
We are looking for an experienced User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) designer to direct the design of new features and enhancements to our existing systems. This individual will also be responsible for contributing to a quality design and positive user experience for all products that we develop, enhance, and/or support for our clients.
This User Interface (UI) designer will be concerned with the overall design of the IT products that we develop, enhance, and/or support. They will research, design and/or advise on screen, page, and/or report designs and how the user will interact with each. He or she will also review, design, and advise on a consistent and cohesive style applied not only across a single system but also across multiple systems.
The User Experience (UX) designer will be concerned with how the software products that we support feel to the end user. He or she will design and advise on logical flows from one screen or function to another to ensure the "best", most intuitive, and most efficient user experience possible.
The successful candidate will apply user-centered design principles to design interfaces for a variety of screen sizes from full sized desktops to mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones. He or she will have an understanding responsive design and design patterns across web and mobile platforms. He or she will also work collaboratively with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, and stakeholders, taking broad conceptual ideas and turning them into congruent scenarios, usable flows and simple easy-to-use interface designs.
Deliverables expected from this position will be the creation/documentation/consulting of interaction models, user task flows, and UI specifications. This individual must have the ability to create and communicate scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs to stakeholders. He or she must have the ability to design, prepare, and document wireframes, mockups, storyboards, site maps, personas, and behavioral specifications with a high degree of quality.
Additional responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Direct the visual appearance and flow of new software products and enhancements.
- Initiate, advise, and direct major UI re-factorings to improve the user experience.
- Design solutions to complex workflows.
- Function as a client/user advocate during software design and development
- Act as a "go to" person on user interface best practices and standards.
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
Requirements Elicitation and Documentation, Customer Service, Liaison With Stakeholders | Required | 8 | Years |
System Documentation | Desired | 5 | Years |
Problem Solving and Resolution Skills, Solution Evaluation and Recommendations | Required | 8 | Years |
Agile/Scrum Experience | Highly desired | 3 | Years |
UI/UX Specifications | Required | 8 | Years |
Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills, Analytical Skills | Required | 8 | Years |
Decision-Making Skills | Nice to have | 5 | Years |
Interface Design and Documentation, User scenarios, end-to-end experiences, and interaction modelling | Required | 8 | Years |
Wireframes, mock-ups | Required | 8 | Years |
Storyboard preparation | Required | 8 | Years |
