Description
UI Designer - Contract
Job Title: UI Designer - Contract
Company: Direct IT Recruiting Inc.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Status: Contract
Job Category: Application Development
Career Level: Senior
Number of Staff to Supervise: N/A
Work Experience: 5+ years of design experience of web sites, web applications for online banking, mobile development an asset
Industry: Online Banking
DESCRIPTION:
Bi-lingual in English and Spanish asset.
The focus of this contract will be on defining the executing the conceptual design. Must have design experience with online web sites, web applications or desktop apps.
Mobile design is a nice to have.
Must be proficient to expert with the following software programs: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, Microsoft Office.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Evaluate existing sites in terms of their usability, visual design, content, and branding
- Identify and document meaningful patterns from the user research and provide recommendations based on established guidelines, best practices, customer needs, opportunities and/or pain points.
- Conduct and analyze stakeholder interviews to understand key success factors for a project or pursuit
- Present concepts to key stakeholders
- Develop Navigation and Interaction models
- Optimize user flows
- Develop design specifications
- Create prototypes using tools such as InDesign, Visio, Axure as required
- Strong technical skills a plus
- Computer Science or engineering degree or equivalent preferred
- 3-4+ years of industry experience
- Well-versed in user-centered design methods and techniques
- Proficient to expert in: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio,Microsoft Office [Must Have]
- Excellent analytical and process-oriented skills
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams
- Prior experience in UI design for mobile devices a plus
- Ability to work with IT team to convert wireframes and other mockups into rich, modern user interfaces.
- Experience with many script frameworks (including jQuery, modernizr, backbone and handlebars), HTML5 or CSS3 and related frameworks [nice to have]
- Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS) a plus
- Experience with Analytics a plus