USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER

UAB group; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Alabama at Birmingham seeks a User Experience Designer to illustrate and communicate complex design solutions through flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI specifications. You will collaborate to meet digital accessibility and brand standards while partnering with UX research and analytics to ensure data-driven design decisions.

Key duties include contributing to the Digital Design System, prototyping with Adobe XD, and preparing designs for frontend developers for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field plus three years of experience required.
• Experience applying UX principles and accessibility standards.
• Familiarity with content platforms and design systems within large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Illustrate and communicate complex design solutions with flows, wireframes, and high fidelity UI specs.
• Collaborate to define and execute digital design using brand standards and UX best practices.
• Partner with UX research and analytics to reflect findings in designs.
• Prepare designs for frontend developers and validate visual QA with the team.
• Contribute to the Digital Design System and create reusable UI components.

Skills

UX design

Adobe XD

Design systems

Visual design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Drupal

CMS

Adobe XD

Joomla migration

Job description

User Experience Designer

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

General Responsibilities

To illustrate and communicate complex design solutions by creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups and detailed user interface (UI) and visual design specifications. To collaboratively help define and to execute digital design needs based on the university's digital accessibility and brand standards as well as user experience (UX) best practices. To partner with our user research and analytics teams to understand the user journey qualitatively and quantitatively and ensure design deliverables reflect findings and data.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Contributes to the university's Digital Design System with accompanying detailed design specifications.
• Creates, designs and prototypes using Adobe XD and related programs to enhance the templates and modules within UAB's content management systems and digital platforms.
• Incorporates customer feedback, technical constraints, and usability research findings into design mockups and prototypes.
• Prepares designs for implementation by our front-end developers and work closely with them to test then give feedback and visual quality assurance.
• Assists UX Research team with user research and use data collected from a variety of metrics such as research, customer feedback, user testing and market analysis to improve the user experience by creating user-centered designs.
• Builds storyboards to conceptualize designs to accurately convey project plans.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Salary Pay Range

$65,000 – $85,000

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field and three (3) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for the education requirement.

Preferred

• Designing for Drupal or component-based digital platforms.
• Support UAB's three-year migration of more than 300 websites from Joomla to Drupal by expanding the Digital Design System, creating reusable design solutions, collaborating with project partners, and shaping future Drupal enhancements.
• Experience applying digital accessibility principles to design work.
• Foundational UX research experience.
• Comfortable taking initiative on basic research activities, such as interviews and usability testing, and analysis of user feedback or website analytics, to inform and validate design decisions.

UAB is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex (including pregnancy), genetic information, age, disability, and veteran's status. As required by Title IX, UAB prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to UAB's Assistant Vice President and Senior Title IX Coordinator. The Title IX notice of nondiscrimination is located at uab.edu/titleix.

Job Category

Media and Communication

Organization

170000000 Office of Marketing & Communications

Employee Status

Regular

Shift

Day/1st Shift

Work Arrangement (final schedule to be determined by the department/hiring manager)

Remote/Hybrid Eligible