Sr. UX Designer

The Smartdept. Is looking for a Sr. UX/UI Designer with at least 7 years of experience for a well-known eCommerce drugstore client. The main function of the UI/UX Designer is to work with project teams to design and deliver high quality client-centered, effective, consistent and usable interfaces. This is a full-time 2 yr. contract that will be remote to start, eventually moving onsite to their Chicago location when pandemic corporate procedures are put in place.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with business analysts, business sponsors, project managers and IT teams to obtain and understand business requirements
• Create 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
• Participate in design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and getting approvals on designs and documentation.
• Execute business acceptance test cases and testing
• Work with the project managers to ensure that usability deliverables accommodate project timelines, budgets, technical and scope constraints

What You’ll Need:

• 7-10 years related experience
• Proven understanding of user-centered design techniques & demonstrated ability to incorporate UCD principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces
• 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 *Knowledge of web client technologies (browsers, HTML, CSS).