• Job Description

  Req#: 24-07372
  
  
  Title: Designer UX II - User Experience Visual Designer
  Duration: 4 Months - Long Term
  Location: Washington, DC 20433
  
  Hybrid Onsite: 4 days onsite per week from day1
  
  The User Experience Designer will perform the full range of responsibilities associated with user-centered design methodology for software development . He/she will also conduct reviews of software products and guide how to remediate usability issues. He/she must be able to explain usability principles and techniques to both technical team members and business sponsors.
  
  Essential Job Functions:
  • Interact directly with business sponsors and subject matter experts to understand business and functional requirements and constraints, and converting them into appealing, highly usable interfaces.
  • Engage with the business development team and/or customer early in the project lifecycle to seek a deeper appreciation of the customers’ business problems and goals.
  • Develop an understanding of the end users of the websites/applications to be developed by conducting primary and secondary research, including user interviews, traffic data, existing systems, enterprise guidelines, etc., and communicate findings of user research
  • Carry out user modeling and task analysis, and develop personas and scenarios
  • Create wireframes and visual design mockups as needed in order to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed user interaction behaviors.
  • Ensure application-level consistency with respect to visual design and interaction components
  • Prepare low fidelity prototypes of sites/features ranging from draft concepts to wireframes or interactive prototypes for internal review and brainstorming.
  • Create or advise on content architecture and navigation design, Design page level layout, page flow, and task fulfillment
  • Propose design solutions for identified usability problems in existing applications
  • Present low and high-fidelity designs/mockups to clients for review, iteration, and approval.
  • Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience.
  • Make recommendations to solve complex interaction problems and improve overall user experience within an application and across different applications
  • Conduct heuristic reviews of websites and web applications
  
  Educational Qualifications and Experiences:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Web Design, or similar field
  • High level of visual design expertise
  • Experience with the following:
  • Usability design, user centered design
  • Information architecture, navigation design
  • Interaction design and graphic design
  • User modeling and task analysis
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript a plus
  
  Certification Requirements:
  • HFI Usability Analyst, Nielsen Norman Group certification, UX Bootcamp diploma, or other applicable credential is desirable.
  
  Required Skills/Abilities:
  • Proven experience designing responsive websites.
  • Strong visual design skills; Able to explain his/her design philosophy verbally and in writing.
  • Advanced skills in Photoshop, UX prototyping, Illustrator, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, InVision, wireframing, and other mapping tools.
  • Track record of solving cross-browser/cross-platform UI compatibility issues.
  • Cutting-edge knowledge of most recent UX/ UI design standards and trends. Advanced knowledge of visual design, and information architecture
  • Proficient understanding of the limitations of web and mobile application design, with ideas to flex those boundaries, strong understanding of technical feasibility of their designed prototypes.
  • Advanced understanding of the trade-offs between optimum user experience and technical, information security, business constraints, and ability to propose optimized designs within those constraints
  • Demonstrable astuteness regarding aesthetics in web design, including layout, grid systems, color theory and typography.
  • Capable of working directly with clients in an iterative and agile manner to dramatically improve prototypes in a short time.
  • Competency in the following technologies: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap.
  • Advanced knowledge of graphic design and accessibility principles
  • Advanced understanding of information systems, application development standards and life cycle methodologies, particularly in a large-scale, Agile context
  • Knowledge of storyboarding/prototyping, Axure, usability testing, and survey tools
  • Knowledge of interaction design
  • Familiarity with principles of human computer interaction
  • Strong interpersonal, communication skills and a team player
  • Ability to produce deliverables within tight deadlines
  
  Pluses:
  • Master’s Degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Web Design or similar field
  • Advanced knowledge of interaction design
  
  

• About the company

  Mindlance is one of the largest diversity-owned staffing firms in the US . As a recruitment centric talent acquisition company, Mindlance provides Technology, Engineering, Digital / Creative / Marketing, Clinical Research, Scientific, Finance, Professional and Payroll Management staffing services to Global 1000 companies across the US, Canada and India.

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