UX Designer – Senior
Job Title: RQ01843 - UX Designer - Senior
Client: Ontario Ministry of Transportation in Toronto, ON
Must Haves:
· Experience in accessibility compliance testing.
· Experience in facilitating User Research and Usability testing.
· Expertise in UX software such as JustInMind, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS).
· Hands-on experience with Agile.
Responsibilities:
User Experience Designers (Task-based I&IT Consultants) follow these design practices and concepts:
Conduct Research - Research is an investigative activity to study and learn about users. You will conduct both exploratory and evaluative research to uncover user problems and test solutions.
Collaborate Across Disciplines - As a designer, your job isn’t to know everything. There are many opportunities to conduct collaborative brainstorming activities to help you get input and gather ideas from the rest of your team.
Deliver Design Decisions - Design decisions are the real deliverable and you value sharing them through conversation above documentation.
Seek Feedback - As a designer, you will be continuously be gathering feedback on yourself, on your work, and on the team throughout the design cycle and project engagement.
Communicate Early and Often - An important part of working on an agile and balanced team is having consistent and clear communication at all times. Consistent communication means that teams talk every day.
User Experience Design 40%
· Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
· Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
· 3+ years of relevant experience in participating in complex projects (products) of different sizes, ensuring alignment to plans, best practices and incorporating user-centred design processes and agile (scrum) methodologies.
· Degree or diploma in graphic design; degree or certification in usability, human-computer interaction, and technical writing a plus
· Experience in facilitate User Research and Usability testing. Accessibility compliance testing is a plus.
· Experience in facilitate User Research and Usability testing activities to produce such outputs as:
o User Interview Topic Maps
o User Interview Scripts
o User Interview Synthesis (collection, aggregation and analysis) of written observations recorded during each interview
o User Research Findings Report
Relationship Management - 20%
· Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client projects (products) are progressing according to schedule
· Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
· Ability to deliver on a (project) product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) by participating in Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies
Technical Skills - 20%
· Expertise in UX software such as JustInMind, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), are a plus.
Soft skills - 20%
· Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
· Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
· Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
· Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
· Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills