Sr. User Experience Designer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Responsibilities & Skills required:
User Experience Design
- 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:
- User Interview Topic Maps
- User Interview Scripts
- User Interview Synthesis (collection, aggregation and analysis) of written observations recorded during each interview
- User Research Findings Report
Relationship Management
- 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
- 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.
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Responsibilities
Design and iteratively improve user-centered experiences for mobile-first and responsive products, applying UX best practices and agile delivery methods. Facilitate user research and usability testing, produce research outputs, and collaborate with business stakeholders and balanced product teams to keep projects on schedule and support change.
Requirements
Requires at least three years of relevant experience contributing to complex projects, along with experience in UX design, user research, usability testing, and agile or Scrum methodologies. A degree or diploma in graphic design is specified; usability, human-computer interaction, technical writing, accessibility testing, and HTML, CSS, or JavaScript experience are additional advantages.
Skills
- User Experience Design
- Mobile-First Design
- Responsive Design
- User Research
- Usability Testing
- Accessibility Testing
- Agile
- Scrum
- Stakeholder Communication
- Change Management
- JustInMind
- InVision
- Sketch
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Axure
- Figma
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- Art & Design
- Technology
- Software
Keywords
- User Experience Design
- Mobile-First Design
- Responsive Design
- User-Centered Design
- User Research
- Usability Testing
- Accessibility Compliance Testing
- User Interview Topic Maps
- User Interview Scripts
- User Interview Synthesis
- User Research Findings Reports
- Agile
- Scrum
- Change Management
- Graphic Design
- Usability
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Technical Writing
- JustInMind
- InVision
- Sketch
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Axure
- Figma
- Zeplin
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- React
- Angular