Description
(UI/UX) Manager. User Interface/User Experience
Web Applciation Design and Development--Business Need
This individual will be responsible for ensuring high-quality user experiences by incorporating principles of user-centered design throughout the project including the following:
Develop a clear understanding of users, their goals and supporting tasks as requested by Business team members.
Incorporate user feedback during the refinement of requirements for UI/UX, and during user acceptance testing (UAT)
Involve users in the evaluation of designs at multiple stages as requested by Business leadership and Agile scrum product owners.
Integrate user-centered design with other development activities.
Conduct usability reviews with users; collect and incorporate discoveries.
The User Experience Manager is fundamentally responsible for evolving the best possible User Experience
Within the application through the process of:
Understanding the business need
Designing the method to address the need within an application feature set
Reviewing that design with relevant stakeholders
Creating draft storyboards, wireframes, mockups, and prototype of the user interface (using tools such as sketches/whiteboards/Visio).
Creating final user interface designs including graphic elements (using tools such as Illustrator/Photoshop/HTML5)
Aligning the stakeholders during the collection of their feedback on articulated requirements including the user interface designs
Refining the solution approach based on stakeholder input
Overseeing the user acceptance testing of the application feature set in regards to meeting the requirements adopted by the impacted stakeholders ensuring meets State's accessibility guidelines collecting insights from observation and feedback of ongoing user experiences in order to drive future improvements.
Goal
- The goal of the project is to improve system operability, stability, record keeping, security, and customer service for the and motor vehicle registration systems.
- Outcomes included in this project work will be:
- Updating interfaces with other state and federal entities, remote locations, subcontractors,
- law enforcement and the public
- Improving and updating methods of operation when necessary
- Adding additional data to current driver's license and motor vehicle records that will be able to be recorded and retrieved electronically upon demand
- The results of these systems operations will be the federally mandated automatic electronic operation of Driver's license and motor vehicle record checks for all official sites, and the transmission of data to and from law enforcement, federal agencies, and other states. These functions must be able to be performed in an electronic manner and be verifiable and updated, as required by state and federal legislation and enhancements to existing systems and implement new systems that conform to the overall architecture will be consistent with the State of Minnesota Enterprise
- Technical Architecture.
Required minimum qualifications:
Skill or Experience # of Years
- Experience creating style guides for complex applications with both internal
- and external customers
- Experience in designing cohesive user interface across overall application
- architecture
- Experience in Agile project environments with ongoing iterative UI/UX
- refinement
- Creation of enhanced wireframes for prescriptive guidance to development
- team
- Experience in facilitation with joint business and technology JADS, standups, showcases, and UA sessions.
- Facilitation and collection of UX data for ongoing application improvements;
- Both in pilot and lab based UX environments
- Updated Application Overhaul/Redesign Projects 3
Desired Skills
Skill or Experience
- Knowledge/experience with Axure or similar software 2
- Front End Development (HTML5, Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS, JavaScript,
- jQuery, Ajax, ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC)