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- Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
- Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
- Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas.
- Drawing up detailed website specifications;
- Designing sample page layouts including text size and colors;
- Designing graphics, animations and manipulating digital photographs;
- Registering web domain names and organizing the hosting of the website;
- Presenting initial design ideas to clients;
- Working with different content management systems;
- Search engine optimization;
- Designing the website's visual imagery and ensuring it's in line with company branding policy or the requirements of the client;
- Proofreading content and making changes where necessary;
- Editing content, debugging code and re-designing web pages;
- Working with other web specialists including web developers.
- Liaising with outside agencies;
- Testing the website to ensure it is working;
- Handing the completed website over to the client;
- Researching current design trends;
- Continual professional development to keep up to date with new software developments.
Job Requirements
Employers prefer a combination of technical skills from each of the categories below, however, this will vary depending upon the employer, the level of the job and the technical level of web design:
- UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
- Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
- Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
- Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
- A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
- CAn work remotely
- Coding: HTML; Javascript; jQuery; Dreamweaver.
- Programming: PHP; XML/XSLT; app Mobile.
- Design and graphics: InDesign; Illustrator; Photoshop; Fireworks; Flash.
