Position – Interaction Designer

Location – Chicago, IL

Duration – Contract

Mandatory skills

A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in product or service design
UX/UI Design Portfolio is a must. Desired Characteristics Design Expertise
This role requires a solid understanding of human centred design thinking in an agile environment. Essential Responsibilities
Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies, and utilise the latest UX methods, such as Google Design sprints, collaborative design, service design, informal and formal testing, and rapid prototyping
Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wire frames, mock ups, prototypes, and user stories
Leverage a healthcare-wide design system and ensure that the user needs are reflected while maintaining consistency across the software application.
Work with Senior Designer and product owners to understand market needs & vision; work with teams to quickly translate that vision into workflows, interactions, and designs for software.
Feel comfortable independently leading design sprints, UX requirements definition sessions, and design thinking workshops, accurately scoping UX research and design work.
Lead UFMEA activities, Conducts Formative and Summative studies.

Responsibilities:

The UX - Interaction Designer will help to shape the end-to-end user experience for the Perinatal Solution.
Uses participatory design activities (e.g. paper prototype co-creation, card sorting) to understand vision, business model and assumptions and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviours
Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts · Synthesises output of stakeholder research & creates visualisations that effectively summarise key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviours, product definition
Creates annotated prototypes or wire frames of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behaviour of a software application.
Skilled in standard design & wire framing tools (Adobe CC & Sketch), hand drawing and visual communication, time-based and interactive prototyping tools (Hype, Adobe Edge, Keynote)
Understands the value of a rigorous, collaborative, and transparent decision-making process · Demonstrates sensitivity to key cultural issues
Uses generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.) to establish a variety of possible design decisions and decision scenarios.
Expresses UX and design concepts to collaborators on cross functional teams. Goes beyond merely presenting designs, explains the story of the rationale and benefit of design ideas Personal Attributes
Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain.
Demonstrates the ability to extract and communicate how customer groups are thinking and feeling. · Asks questions appropriate to translating an abstract problem into a roadmap for identifying solutions.
Captures specific information from the audience and validates it back to them for acceptance

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $45.00 - $52.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Panacea Direct Inc

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