RQ01965 - UI Designer – Senior

Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services in Toronto, ON

Employment Type: Contract

Must Haves:

  • ·         HTML5, CSS/SCSS, Foundation, Bootstrap, ES6, TypeScript

  • ·         Experience with complex, user-centric IT solutions.

  • ·         Front-end development

  • ·         JavaScript

  • ·         AngularJS

  • ·         WCAG 2.0 and ARIA implementation and accessibility best practice

 

Description

Responsibilities:

  • ·         Create visual design solutions that address business requirements

  • ·         Create screen layouts, interfaces, navigation components

  • ·         Work closely with user experience (UX) designers and other design specialists

  • ·         Ensure that every page and every step a user will experience in their interaction with the finished product will conform to the overall vision created by UX designers

  • ·         Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes

General Skills:

  • ·         Experience translating, creating, improving and using wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate interaction ideas that lead to intuitive user experiences that are optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

  • ·         Experience designing and shaping unique, user-centric products and experiences.

  • ·         Experience facilitating the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products

  • ·         Make deliberate design decisions and translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction

  • ·         Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterating upon it in accordance with user-testing.

  • ·         Experience collaborating closely with developers, copywriters and UX designers

  • ·         Experience presenting and defending design decisions to team and management

  • ·         Ability to think creatively and to rationalize concepts to management.

  • ·         Knowledge of user interface design principles and best practices

  • ·         Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions

  • ·         Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features

  • ·         Manage workflow and deadlines on multiple, simultaneous projects

  • ·         A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience

Desirable Skills:

  • ·         Design experience gained either within a design firm, advertising agency or in-house marketing department

  • ·         Knowledge of network security and network protocols

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