Job Description
Job Title: UX Designer - Junior
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: Onsite
Duration: 6 months
Extension: 1 Time
Must Haves
- Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance
- Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications
- ability to define and lead UX projects and design workshops and alignment sessions with stakeholder, business users
- Knowledge of accessability testing
- Ability to work with Ontario Design system
- Knowledge of digital service standard.
- Experience with Figma, Canvas and similar tools
- Experience facilitating the client's product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
Description / Responsibilities / Skills
Responsibilities
- Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces.
- Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
- Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes
Experience & Skill Set Requirements
General Skills (55%)
- Managing end-to-end user research from recruiting to synthesis.
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools
- Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies
- Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience
- Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
- Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing
- Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
- Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
- Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
- Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
Communications Skills (30%)
- Demonstrated ability to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation, including reports, reviews, and assessments.
- Skilled in conveying design concepts and development processes in a clear, understandable manner to diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve common project goals.
- Demonstrated experience within a collaborative team working at different levels.
Desirable Skills: (10%)
- Experience with complex design challenges, especially in dealing with legacy systems and nuanced stakeholder/approval relationships
- Proficient in designing with accessibility in mind, and meeting WCAG 2.1 AA requirements
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