RQ07469 - UX Designer - Senior - Toronto, Canada - Maarut Inc

Description

Responsibilities:

• Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces. Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
  
• Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
  
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
  
• Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes
  

General Skills:

• Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications.
  
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies
  
• Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience.
  
• Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
  
• Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing
  
• Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mock-ups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  
• Experience facilitating the client?s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  
• Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
  
• Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
  
• Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
  

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of network security and network protocols
  

Requirements

Must Haves:

Acts as the primary service design consultant within multidisciplinary project teams for service design projects, defining the project approach in the initiation stage, and thereafter leading on key service design activities such as:

• User needs mapping
  
• User research (exploratory and evaluative)
  
• Stakeholder mapping
  
• Personas
  
• Journey mapping
  
• Collaborative design
  
• Prototyping
  
• Service blueprint.
  

Reviews service design aspects post-implementation to assess performance of new processes and practices.

Participates in project and advisory committees to provide service design advice and expertise, reports, and recommendations, and to co-ordinate testing, implementation and post-implementation review planning.

Manages multi-disciplinary service design project teams through all phases of complete projects, including agreeing scope and deliverables, developing the project charter, planning, resourcing, prioritizing, scheduling, monitoring, problem solving, guiding staff, and reporting with recommendations.