UX Designer – Senior
6 month contract – May start date
Hybrid 3 days onsite – Downtown Toronto
Government Services – Healthcare
Must haves:
- Previous government experience.
- Hands-On experience using Figma to design web application features and assets.
- Provide UX/UI leadership and defining best practices and methodologies: user-centered design, design thinking, and design sprints.
- Proficient in UX design for web applications, preferably enterprise portals and websites, mobile, and responsive experiences (8 years+)
- Must have strong facilitation skills and experience leading client workshops remotely
- Work within a fast-paced and Agile environment
- Proven UI design skills and experience
Deliverables include, but are not limited to:
- Using Figma, design mockups and assets for a custom Web Application (Enterprise BI Platform).
- Supporting product management and delivery with mockups, and design solutions.
- Leading and facilitating product discovery and design sessions.
- Establish a Design System and framework
Responsibilities:
- Work with product management and lines of business to gather and analyze customer requirements and translate them into engaging and effective UI experiences
- Ideate and conceptualize innovative UI solutions to solve complex end-user challenges.
- Produce, personas and customer journey maps, wireframes and prototypes
- Lead design review sessions with internal stakeholders, reaching consensus and getting approvals on designs
- Work closely with front-end developers other product team members to successfully build, test and deploy cutting-edge user interfaces and UI components
- Establish product specific UI/UX vision and standards while adhering to branding and accessibility guidelines
- Lead customer experience and usability studies
- Perform other duties as assigned by management
Desired Skills:
- A degree in design or a design-related discipline (user-centred design, visual design, human factors, human-computer interaction, etc.) or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience designing web enabled digital solutions
- Experience with UX design for Web Portals (5 years+)
- Expert knowledge of information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, and user experience principles and techniques
- Demonstrated knowledge of branding, layout, color theory, typography and photography
- Experience in Agile, Scrum, user stories, user flows, low and high-fidelity designs and prototyping.
- Experience with UI design.
- Proficiency with design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Axure – 3 years
- Experience in usability testing and accessibility compliance (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA))
- Understanding of current and emerging technologies, design patterns, industry trends and standards, device and browser capabilities
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas and solutions to team members
- Comfortable working within tight timeframes and with working creatively within specific constraints.
- An impressive portfolio of recent work demonstrating UI/UX expertise in designing web and mobile applications