Description
Senior UX Designer - Freelance - Hybrid - Eindhoven Netherlands.I am currently supporting my client who is looking to hire a Senior UX Designer on a long term freelance contract.
Contract details:
Shift: Dayshift (2 - 3 days working in the office) Preferred language: English (Dutch is nice)
Hours per week 40.0
Duration: 12 month initial contract with a likely extension
Rate: Competitive hourly rate depending on experience
Role and responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for the UX design of the most used set of analytics applications and reports. Your goal is to realize significant user experience improvements of our business software applications, in order to increase user efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction and adoption. All to enable your colleagues to achieve remarkable things.
As a Senior UX Designer you will do user research, create UI mockups, apply and contribute to the design guidelines and validate prototypes with users from all over the world. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that consists of eg a product owner, a solution architect, a business process analyst and software developers. You will thus be the lead in defining, embedding and executing the user-centered design process. Furthermore, as the senior designer you will keep an bird-eye of the UX work over multiple teams, coordinate with leadership and coach fellow UX designers in their work and development.
- Prepare and execute user research methods such as contextual inquiry and task analysis.
- Communicate findings using eg personas, user journeys, user stories.
- Validate prototypes through local, remote, moderated and unmoderated usability tests. - Define quantitative UX metrics and collect data to report on them. Interaction Design
- Create wireframes and interactive prototypes.
- Apply design guidelines and improve or extend them if necessary. - Make sure that your designs are aligned with the functional and technical stakeholders. UX Consulting
- Define the right user-centered design approach based on the project's or agile team's goals and status quo (budget, timelines, availability of skills, etc).
- Embed the approach in the project's or agile team's way of working and safeguard it under sometimes adverse conditions.
- Pro-actively share challenges and best practices with your peers from the UX competence
All you need is:
Education and experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in an area such as Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, Psychology, or Engineering
- More than 5 years of professional UX experience (post-degree).
- Ability to plan work and deliver on agreed goals independently.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other disciplines.
- Ability to coach fellow UX designers in their work.
- Ability to deal with resistance and convince others of the value of UX.
- Ability to balance short- and long-term goals, to compromise and to adapt way of working.
- Ability to work under time pressure and rapidly changing conditions.
- Fluent in English, verbal and written. Profound knowledge of Dutch is a plus.
If you are an excellent, bright, hands-on person with a passion to make a difference come to lead the revolution!
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