Description
Senior UX Designer (Data Analytics) (Contract)
The UX Designer will be responsible for producing:
- A clear, user-centric design vision
- Information architecture including Content inventory, Content analysis, Content outline, Content modelling, Information hierarchy, vocabulary/taxonomy, etc.
- Interaction design including User flow diagrams
- Navigation design and Information representation including Wireframes and Mock-ups
- User research including Personas, User Stories, Usability test plans, Usability reports,
Skills & Experience Required
- 5+ years User Experience/User Interaction design experience.
- Demonstrable track record of designing simple and elegant solutions to present complex data.
- Presentation of analytics (eg in dashboards, charts) based on very large data volumes is critical.
- Experience designing user experience for software productweb user interfaces, ideally for software as a service
- Relevant qualifications in User Experience or User Interface design; Interaction Design, Cognitive Science, or HCI, or equivalent experience
- Expertise in human interface guidelines, standards, and web application best practices
- Ability to conduct design, prototyping and user research
- Ability to produce and translate ideas into clean wireframes and mockups for implementation.
- In addition to UX design the candidate needs to have graphical design ability and visual flair to be able to set the vision for the look and feel of our product
- Ability to produce web page mockups and simple prototypes
Advantageous but not necessary:
- Experience of using user interaction data such as from Google Analytics to drive UX improvement is highly advantageous but not essential
- Experience working in an agile development environment is highly advantageous but not essential
- Experience working in a software product development environment is preferred, ideally but not necessarily for Software as a Service.