Description
My client, a leading international software company, are currently recruiting for a UX/UI Designer to join their innovative team in Galway city.
You will be responsible for researching, creating and developing concepts and wireframes for multi-form factor (including Smart Phones, tablets and wearables) application design during pre-sales and post-sales delivery phases.
Main requirements:
- Synthesizing user and stakeholder needs, you will work on the structure and behaviour of client applications.
- You will understand user-centred design activities which can apply to enhancements or new interaction and interface designs.
- You will work in a technical environment with clients and developers and have responsibility to ensure usability and accessibility.
- Be able to recommend and deliver approaches to meeting client needs. This includes estimating and facilitating client workshops.
- Projects can be short (ideation and prototyping) but may also cover three to eighteen months working with clients in various industries in various technologies.
- This position requires problem-solving, client interaction and travel to various client sites.
In this role you will:
- Design and lead interactive and interface design solutions for screen-based software applications and systems
- Stay current and proficient in advanced user-centred design techniques and methodologies
- Plan, validate, and implement research methods to test interactive and interface design data
- Lead in the development of personas and journey maps
- Analyse, evaluate, describe, and report results to stakeholders
- Problem-solve for work flows as well as information architecture and drive innovation
- Collaborate with management, development teams and clients to ensure product success
- Design, develop and implement changes to products or services to improve design
- Learn technical environment to balance user, stakeholder and technical needs
- Contribute to proposal responses and business development.
- Contribute to interactive design pattern library such as Axure, Balsamiq or iRise templates
- May represent the UX capability to clients and present solutions at oral presentations
- Contribute to building the UX capability
- Mentor and cross-train with central UX team
Skills & Experience Required:
- Bachelor's degree in User Interface Design, Information Design, or equivalent
- 2+ years' experience in user experience design field
- Experience with responsive web, mobile and desktop formats
- Portfolio of examples required
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience with user experience design for multiple clients
- Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills
- Can handle multiple projects or requests and deliver results
- Understanding of research and design activities and techniques
- Enjoys advisory and consulting engagements; working with ambiguity
- Strong writing and verbal skills
- Strong consulting and relationship management skills
- Ability to effectively communicate and sell the value of UX
- Knowledge of interaction tools such as Axure, Balsamiq or iRise
- Working knowledge of design and UI development tools (Creative Suite, CSS, HTML5) (willingness to quickly grasp the UWP apps design approach)
- Understanding of technologies to solution an effective user experience
- Ability to travel sporadically to client sites approximately 50%
For more information please contact me (Aisling) on (see below).