UI/UX Designer (Fixed Term Contract)

The UI/UX Designer will be responsible for creating user-friendly interfaces and enhancing user experiences. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Leverage varying research methods including but not limited to in-person and remote ethnography, user interviews, surveys, and usability testing to help define and execute product strategy
• Facilitate ideation sessions, design sprints to engage partners, clients, and various stakeholders in creating user-centric products and processes
• Provide detailed high-quality reporting on product user experience, pre and post project start/promotion
• Leverage research and data to design high-quality wireframes, personas, iterative prototypes, and AODA- compliant mockups based on user needs and incorporate user feedback from various stages of testing
• Work closely with business, product, and technology partners to design products with highest quality user experience based on user needs and implementation feedback
• Create a unified end-to-end experience through proactive close collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders, building alignment and articulating design vision through strong storytelling and presentation skills
• Leverage user testing plans and scripts to support required research
• Effectively document, present and communicate research and design insights with recommendations that informs design decisions to leadership and stakeholders
• Maintain high quality, consistent design standards by creating and keeping the living style guide up to date whilst adhering to brand specifications
• Ensure that all design work is produced to the highest standard in terms of content layout, visual appearance, usability, and user experience/user interface best practices
• Ensure that all deliverables are provided on time, in line with specifications of the project plan and as coordinated with team leadership and key project stakeholders
• Review all features implemented to ensure compelling user experience as proposed
• Participate in Agile events, including daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospectives
• Contribute to the growth of Service Design practices at Teranet by actively participating in a collaborative, supportive, challenging, and innovative environment, proactively offering well-thought-out ideas and solutions to existing problems
• Always demonstrate professionalism and be a great ambassador of the Design Team with all stakeholders

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in User Experience, Interaction, and Interface design
• Excellent communication (written and oral), presentation and interpersonal skills
• Must be an enthusiastic collaborator and open to feedback
• Must have a good Knowledge of Design thinking methodologies and techniques
• Highly proficient in creating and presenting UIUX artifacts including user journeys, low-high fidelity renderings, clickable iterative prototypes, etc., to leadership, stakeholders, and partners
• Highly proficient with design tools (Adobe Xd, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
• Must have a proficient knowledge of inclusive design principles and updated WCAG guidelines as stipulated in AODA
• Must be able to assess business requirement, technical constraints, and research data, translating it into user-centric design systems
• Must have a design portfolio that showcases proficient design skills, user centric thinking and problem solving
• Good understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and modern front-end interface possibilities
• Ability to understand and design for multi-tier applications versus websites
• Ability to work effectively within a highly collaborative and cross-functional agile team (proficient knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence, a plus)
• Ability to effectively prioritize and pivot in response to evolving business needs and constraint
• Must be able to efficiently manage or work on multiple projects/assignments at the same time

Key Skills

• Design thinking methodologies and techniques
• Creating and presenting UIUX artifacts including user journeys, low-high fidelity renderings, clickable iterative prototypes, etc.
• Design tools (Adobe Xd, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
• Inclusive design principles and updated WCAG guidelines as stipulated in AODA
• Assessing business requirement, technical constraints, and research data, translating it into user-centric design systems
• Design portfolio that showcases proficient design skills, user centric thinking and problem solving
• Web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and modern front-end interface possibilities
• Understanding and designing for multi-tier applications versus websites
• Working effectively within a highly collaborative and cross-functional agile team (proficient knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence, a plus)
• Effectively prioritizing and pivoting in response to evolving business needs and constraint
• Efficiently managing or working on multiple projects/assignments at the same time