Description
Members of an award-winning K-12 educational technology company are seeking an experienced UI/UX design consultant with strong visual and technical skills to collaborate with the growing team of a new digital education startup focusing on the early childhood market. This is a consulting position that may involve some work from our NYC but it's not a must, most of the work can be done remotely.
Responsibilities
The role will involve:
- Cooperating with the product development team, including: content experts, pedagogical experts, developers, and graphic designers to formalize design requirements
- Contributing to ongoing design discussions
- Advising on and/or creating refined and well-developed solutions that meet both user and business requirements, including: clear and operative user flows and wireframes, high fidelity visual mockups; and functional, responsive prototypes and supporting visual assets and production artwork to inform and validate design decisions
- Collaborating on usability testing and user research, and analyzing user feedback to derive concrete and actionable design recommendations
- Ensuring that development of the final, working product adheres faithfully to design specifications
- Expertise in designing compelling, creative, elegant digital products for the early childhood market, with an available portfolio of past work samples (both static and interactive)
- Fluency with UI/UX best practices and principles of design for children ages 3-6 (preschool-kindergarten) with an emphasis on developmental appropriateness
- Experience designing mobile apps a must, with web experience a plus
- Experience working within the Agile development framework
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Creativity and passion for design
- Top notch communication skills, both verbal and visual
- Ability to translate feedback into practical, relevant solutions
- Self-starter and team player with great interpersonal skills
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