Job Title: UX Designer
Location: Harrisburg PA
Duration: 6+ Months
Interview Type: Phone + F2F
Responsibilities:
· Plan and conduct user research activities at every stage of the product lifecycle.
· Provide insight and vision to the team based on researching user needs.
· Collaborate with UX Designers, Visual Designers, and Developers to define and improve the user experience.
· Synthesize research findings from user research and other data sources (market research, usability research, site analytics, and secondary research) into actionable research findings and recommendations.
· Identify best method or combination of methods based on research questions, timeline and resourcing.
· Lead and facilitate customer research and usability testing activities.
· Work directly with client project teams to facilitate design sessions, provide feedback on wireframes, and lead definition of patterns and standards.
· Collaborate and consult with clients, team members, and other stakeholders to translate rough ideas and opportunities into clear concept models, tangible prototypes, and elegant screen designs.
· Be a champion for users' needs from requirements gathering through solution definition.
· Elicit requirements and fully document design work products.
· Participate in the full design and development cycle to ensure that creative innovations in user-centered design are faithfully delivered to our clients.
· Lead project teams, report status and escalate issues appropriately.
Qualifications:
· BS, MS, or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, or related field.
· Minimum 5 years user-centered research (6-10 preferred).
· Experience conducting a wide range of UX research methods and techniques, such as field research, usability studies, persona development, surveys, etc.
· Strong design facilitation skills leading project teams in participatory and collaborative design sessions. Experience with JAD a plus.
· Strong application of interaction design best practices.
· Clear understanding of usability heuristics and experience performing real-time design evaluations.
· Demonstrated experience solving complex user (cognitive) problems through visual design, interaction design, and usability expertise.
· Demonstrated skill applying user-centered design practices, e.g., using ethnography data, user needs analysis, participatory design, end-user observation data, and usability testing data to influence design decisions.
· Has performed various HCI/IA tasks including personas and use case scenarios, prototyping, flow diagrams, wireframes, card sorting, labeling schemes.
· Ability to rapidly sketch out user-flows with pencil and paper, whiteboards, or post-it notes.
· Strong experience developing interactive prototypes and documentation to aid evaluation of designs for complex applications. Experience with Axure a plus.
· Strong design foundation including adept use of grids, typography, color harmony, etc.
· Has designed for accessibility, Section 508-compliance.
· Excellent visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage and convey ideas to technical and business teams with passion and diplomacy.
· Experience working with use-cases and RUP-like processes a plus.
· Must be a U.S. Citizen.
· Willingness to submit to drug screening and background check (client requirement).
Thanks & Regards,
Sam
Techstar Group
"Certified Woman Owned Minority Business Enterprise (WMBE)"
1300 West Walnut Hill Lane, Suite 252, Irving, TX 75038 .
Direct: 972-497-2501, Fax: (214) 292 8874
Gtalk & Y IM : sam.techstar
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