RQ09638 - UX Designer - Intermediate

Maarut Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design consulting firm in Toronto is looking for a UX Designer to create effective user interfaces and enhance user experiences. This role requires a strong understanding of user-centered design and proficiency in tools like Figma. The ideal candidate has experience in agile development environments and excels in collaborating with cross-functional teams. Competitive salary offered.

Qualifications

• Experience with user experience design research methods like user interviews and usability testing.
• Strong track record of creating user-friendly interfaces.
• Proficiency in designing visually appealing products for web and mobile.

Responsibilities

• Create visually appealing and functional user interfaces.
• Facilitate design thinking workshops for project ideation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for product vision.

Skills

User-centered design

Proficiency with design and prototyping tools

Experience in agile product development

Strong communication skills

Ethnographic research

Tools

Figma

HTML5

CSS

InVision

Axure

Job 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 clients 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

Experience and Skill Set Requirements :

Must Haves

• Facilitating user experience design research through a number of methods such as user interviews diary studies usability testing tracking usability metrics A / B testing card sorting etc.
• Lead design ideation and deliver design deliverables to-be service design blueprints information architecture wireframes mockups and interactive prototypes.
• Deliver functional accessible usable and aesthetically-pleasing user interfaces.
• Collaborate with Business Product and Development teams by facilitating product and service design vision and concept.
• Experience designing content to meet user needs and make complex technical language and process simple to understand
• Ability to discern the right information in the right format for what users needs
• Experience with Miro / Figma

Nice to have

• Previous Digital assessments experience within OPS / Public Sector
• Previous experience using a design system - preferred : Ontario Design System
• Previous Public Sector / OPS experience.

Skill Set Requirements

User Experience / Product Design :

• Facilitating user experience design research through a number of methods such as user interviews diary studies usability testing tracking usability metrics A / B testing card sorting etc.
• Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents such as user journey maps personas service blueprints and affinity maps.
• Design thinking workshops and activities to lead project teams in ideating on solutions to complex product and service design related problems.
• Knowledge about service design methods to provide high-level bird s eye view documentation of both the front-end user experiences and the back-end infrastructure and service processes that support them
• Lead design ideation and deliver design deliverables to-be service design blueprints, information architecture, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
• Deliver functional, accessible, usable, and aesthetically-pleasing user interfaces.
• Collaborate with Business, Product, and Development teams by facilitating product and service design vision and concept.
• Practice ego-free design : be open to giving and receiving feedback collaborating with and supporting other designers
• Utilize pragmatic thoughtful design approaches; think critically about what value design activities are bringing to a project and strategize approach based on organizational need rather than following textbook solutions

Communications & Content

• Experience designing content to meet user needs and make complex, technical language and process simple to understand
• Ability to discern the right information in the right format for what users need
• Robust experience in writing editing and publishing digital content
• Strong communication skills to prepare documentation including but not limited to; reports reviews assessments
• Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients
• Ability to communicate designs and development in clear and understandable manner
• Ability to communicate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design
• High emotional intelligence skills with ability to discern between various stakeholders interests and find reasonable compromises
• Strong mentoring and coaching abilities; ability to convey design concepts and methods to team members and stakeholders outside of design professions.

Agile Product Development

• Experience working in an agile sprint-based development environment
• Understanding and working knowledge of iterative product development cycles (Discovery, Agile, Beta, Live)
• Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries
• Ability to conceptualize design tasks as part of greater product development team; understand the impacts design deliverables have on other aspects of product delivery

Experience

• Experience with medium-to-large sized product development / service design projects
• Experience dealing with designing services and products that deal with large organizational complexity
• Experience with leading strategy and execution on product / service discovery
• Experience with Figma user interface design software
• Experience designing interfaces with a design system

Key Skills

• CSS
• InVision
• Balsamiq
• HTML5
• Information Architecture
• Ux
• Usability
• Wireframing
• UI
• Axure
• Responsive Web Design
• Sketch

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Salary: 85 - 85