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:
Work Location: In person
