Sr. UI/UX Designer

Grand Rapids, MI
zDO NOT USE Contract / Full time
smartdept.inc. is searching for a UI/UX Designer for a global health and beauty company located in Grand Rapids, MI. The ideal candidate will come with at least 6 years of experience in UI/UX design. This is a full-time, remote position. 
 

What You’ll Do: 

  • Design delightful, user-friendly, customer digital user experiences
  • Test solution design to incorporate user-feedback
  • Develop global standards to guide user interface design
  • Apply a passion for exceptional UI/UX design and past experience portfolio to communicate user-focused ideas and lead a team toward the same goals
  • Develop visual concepts (e.g., sketches, wireframes, user interface concepts, interactive prototypes, design systems
  • Understand and design with users’ motivations for adopting a product by personas
  • Designing functionality to be delightful, user-friendly customer digital user experiences
  • Utilizes a variety of methodologies including: Ethnographicresearch, Surveying, Customer feedback and testing, Focus group administration, Non-directed interview, Contextual Interview, Mental modeling, Flow charts, Mood boards, Card sorting, Competitive analysis, Contextual Inquiry, Heuristic analysis, Expert evaluation, Pluralistic walkthrough, Personas, Scenario, Prototypes, System mapping, Experience mapping, and User testing/usability testing
 
What You’ll Need:
 
  • Full stack designer equally comfortable with UX (User Experience) Design and UI (User Interface) Design
  • Skilled at providing UX Deliverables to Agile Product Teams including: Wireframes, User Flows, Journey Maps
  • Collaboration with Product Owners, Development and Internal Stakeholders on new designs and evolve existing ones
  • Ability to create solutions for interface and interaction design challenges
  • Production design experience creating Low Fidelity Mockups, High Fidelity Visual Designs, and Interactive Prototypes
  • Strength in the articulation of user needs, and translating those needs into concepts and elegant interface designs
  • Iterate based on stakeholder feedback, data and technical constraints
  • Able to clearly articulate the rationale for designs
  • Strong listening, organization, and communication skills regarding UI/UX design process, methods and rationale
  • Experience creating specs for UI/UX deliverables, including UI/UX states and behaviors
  • Strong interest in design and up-to-date with current design trends and techniques.
  • Possess excellent layout and typography skills
  • Able to establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
  • Strong empathy with a sense of user-centric narrative
  • Excellent verbal and written English language communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and business teams
  • Expert level with at least one of the follow UI/UX Tools: Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc (Figma is our tool of choice.)
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