Senior User Experience Designer

Job Title: UX Designer – Senior

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite – 5 days/week)

Duration: 283 Business days with Possible Extension

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, mockups 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, mockups 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

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

General Skills (55%):

• 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
• ability to define and lead UX projects and design workshops and alignment sessions with stakeholder, business users
• Managing end-to-end user research from recruiting to synthesis.
• 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, mockups 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, mockups 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
• Experience with Figma, Canvas and similar tools

Communications Skills (30%)

• Demonstrated ability to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation, including reports, reviews, and assessments.
• Skilled in conveying design concepts and development processes in a clear, understandable manner to diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve common project goals.
• Demonstrated experience within a collaborative team working at different levels.

Desirable Skills: (10%)

• Knowledge of accessability testing
• Ability to work with Ontario Design system
• Knowledge of digital service standard.
• Experience with complex design challenges, especially in dealing with legacy systems and nuanced stakeholder/approval relationships
• Proficient in designing with accessibility in mind, and meeting WCAG 2.1 AA requirements

Prior Public Sector experience: (5%)

Must Have:

• 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
• ability to define and lead UX projects and design workshops and alignment sessions with stakeholder, business users
• Experience with Figma, Canva and similar tools
• Demonstrated effectiveness in working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve common project goals.

Nice to have:

• Prior Public sector experience
• Experience with Ontario Service Design
• Exp with UI/UX would be ideal (wireframing, Surveys, Questionaires, consultation, research)