Senior UX Designer

Cognizant; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced User Experience (UX) Designer to craft UX strategy, conduct user research, and drive interaction design for digital applications across platforms. You will lead from the front, plan milestones, and collaborate with stakeholders to validate designs with users and teams.

The role requires 6–9 years in UX/UI design, a strong portfolio, and hands-on prototyping with industry tools. A bachelor’s or master’s in design is preferred, with onsite work in Chennai, India.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of professional experience in interaction and user experience design.
• A strong design portfolio showcasing enterprise applications across devices.

Responsibilities

• Derive and craft a UX strategy for digital applications across platforms.
• Lead the project from front, planning milestones and driving creative vision.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and project leads to design validated interfaces.
• Deliver creatives and ensure usability testing outcomes are incorporated.

Skills

User Research

Interaction Design

Documentation

Usability Testing

UX Strategy

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Design

Tools

Axure RP

PowerPoint

Visio

Photoshop

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

• User Experience (UX) Designer will be tasked to derive and craft a UX strategy, perform User Research & Analysis, Interaction Design and create Documentation for designing digital applications across various platforms and conduct usability testing.
• This role will be directly responsible for establishing and driving the creative vision of a project, with the ability to lead the project from the front and plan milestones.
• He / She will directly collaborate with business stakeholders, the project team and leads, to design user interfaces and get them validated with users and stakeholders.

• He / She will be responsible for the design and delivery of creatives

Educational Background:

• Fulltime Bachelors or Masters Degree preferably in Design

Prerequisite

• 6 to 9 years of professional experience in the field of interaction and user experience design.
• A strong design portfolio showcasing design of enterprise applications, intranets and websites for desktops, mobiles and tablets.

Technical & Executional Skills

• Ability to research and understand user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback methodologies
• Strong understanding and proactive endorsement of user centered design methodology while working on design problems
• Experience with conceptual design and creative prototyping as well as tactical UX design and implementation.
• Ability to work with client and project teams to gather user/design requirements
• Ability to conceptualize, create and present design strategies for complex projects
• Ability to understand and communicate design rationale effectively, defend design decisions, and explain the utility of user experience methods
• Ability to lead planning and preparation of design delivery by shaping the creative direction into specific solutions, tasks, and deliverables.
• Inclination to follow up with best in class UX design practices, trends and techniques
• Practical experience on user research and synthesis techniques
• Ability to define information architecture & Sitemaps, create task-flows and task-analysis
• Experience in Design Expert Evaluation techniques like Heuristics and acquaintance with competitive benchmarking
• Knowledge in Designing for Hand-Held Devices, Responsive Web Design and Accessibility
• Hands-On Experience with wireframe development tools such as PowerPoint, Visio etc. Experience in Axure RP or other industry standard prototyping tools is a plus
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (Understanding of Agile is a plus)
• Understanding of technical platforms and terms (i.e. HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, Java, .NET, JS etc.)
• Experience in tools like Photoshop and other Adobe design suite tools is a definite plus
• Ability to articulate aesthetic and visual design principles would be strongly considered.
• HFI Certification will be strongly considered a plus

Interpersonal Skills

• Positive attitude, proactive and helpful
• Strong team player
• Ability to motivate othersProblem solver (not just good at pointing them out) and negotiator
• Strong listening and communication skills
• Solid organizational skills and attention to detail