UX Designer

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Type of Employment: Contract
Title: UX Designer
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Guelph or Toronto – Hybrid
Job ID number: C1283

Brief Description of Duties: 

Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces. Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing. Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required. Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs. Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes

General Skills: Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications Proficiency with design and prototyping tools Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces

Experience facilitating the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience.

Skills: 

• Experience in User Interface designs
• Demonstrated experience conducting iterative design proof-of-concepts / wireframes in Figma
• Demonstrated experience in Ontario Design System https://designsystem.ontario.ca/
• Demonstrated experience in AODA act 2005 for WCAG elements implementation https://www.ontario.ca/page/about-accessibility-laws
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce UI and backend webpages layout

Soft Skills: 

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with migrations
• Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change request are complete

Agile Experience: 

• Experience with Agile scrum methodologies
• Demonstrated experience with agile sprint management, bug tracking and testing life cycle management using Azure DevOps
• Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically QA processes in agile development environments

Design Validation:

• Demonstrated experience conducting validation and verification of all design elements on webpages
• Demonstrated experience conducting Ontario Design System validation for each UI object https://designsystem.ontario.ca/

Public Sector Experience: 

• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations