UX Designer
Chicago, IL
zDO NOT USE Contract / Full time
smartdept.inc. is searching for a UX Designer for a retail corporation located in Chicago, IL. The ideal candidate will come with 5-7 years of experience. This is a year-long contract with the opportunity to go longer.
What You'll Do:
- The primary function of the UX Designer is to work with project teams to design and deliver high-quality client-centered, practical, consistent, and usable interfaces.
- Works closely with business analysts, business sponsors, project managers, and IT teams to obtain and understand business requirements.
- Creates the design of user interface specifications by applying client research, design standards, industry best practices, taking into account strategic business objectives, user needs, systems constraints.
- Participates in design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus, and getting approvals on designs and documentation.
- Executes business acceptance test cases and testing.
- Works with the project managers to ensure that usability deliverables accommodate project timelines, budgets, technical and scope constraints.
- Contributes to the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of efficient and effective usability methodology/process, documentation, workflow, ROI, metrics, and design standards.
- Acts as a user experience advocate regarding principles of user experience and user-centered design.
What You'll Need:
- 5-7 years of experience
- Expertise with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch, Zeplin
- Proven understanding of user-centered design techniques & demonstrated ability to incorporate UCD principles into user interfaces' architecture and design.
- Demonstrated ability in gathering and translating requirements from business sponsors, SMEs, users, and business analysts, etc
- Experience applying usability testing techniques and principles.
- Experience applying a web design standard
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to articulate ideas effectively.