User Experience Designer

• 41 - 41 USD per Hour
• Full Time
• Posted : 11 months ago

ACT Consulting has an immediate need for an User Experience Designer with our direct client, a healthcare company.

• Usability Design
• Usability Testing
• User Experience
• User centered design
  

• Graphic Design
• HTML
• User Interface Design
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• UX
• Bootstrap
  

• Contributes as a part of a team to the design and usability of internal and external browser based applications throughout the scope, development, and implementation process.
• Transforms concepts and requirements into usable interfaces that are aligned with business goals, user goals, and system constraints while applying best practices.
• Under the guidance of a higher level designer, creates user friendly, effective, and engaging user interfaces for platforms including mobile, tablet, or desktop applications.
• Hones the skills needed to create user interface design artifacts to describe the intended user experience.
• Provides appropriate support and documentation to help maintain the usability integrity of application systems.
• Learns to establish standards, best practices, and processes.
• Researches user centered design best practices, innovations, trends and methodologies.
• Learns to identify user needs, elicit user feedback, conduct user research activities and task flow analysis to improve user experience of each application.
• Synthesizes research findings into meaningful recommendations and actionable results.
• Share user data and insights with the team to communicate user needs and best practices.
• Tests and refines design decisions based on user feedback and analytics.
• Works as a member of a team to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders including the business and application development teams.
• Serves as a true advocate for our users and thoroughly understand how audiences interact with our applications.
• Evangelizes user experience best practices and collaborates with customer and internal team members to validate conceptual designs.
  

• Solid technical knowledge of user experience and usability best practices and methodologies.
• Solid understanding of page layout and interface design concepts.
• Solid understanding of markup and style sheet languages (HTML/CSS) and optimizing design concepts around these technologies.
• Good understanding of graphic design and typography.
• Demonstrates flexibility for adapting to both changing business and client needs, and a changing technical environment.
• Solid analytical and research skills.
• Ability to interpret data and make appropriate recommendations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and business staff.
• Solid conceptual problem-solving skills.
  

• Graphic design software.
• Microsoft Office.
  

• 2 years user interface design experience.
  

• Bachelor's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Research, Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Research, Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.

Skills

• Graphic Design
• User Experience (UX)
• Usability Testing
• User Interface Design
• User Research