UX Designer Senior

Title: UX Designer
Location:Detroit MI 48226
Work Type:Onsite
Duration:12 months Contract
Payrate: $55 per hour on W2 (Inclusive of all)

Job Description:

Engagement Description

• User experience is part strategy part research part design.
• The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs end-user insights and the competitive landscape to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives.
• The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction collaborating with content writers and UI designers.
• The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable accessible and delightful tend-users using human-centered design principles and best practices.

Top 3 Required Skills/Experience The most important must-have skills. Include:
Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:
User research

• Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
• Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products

UX design

• Communicate human-centered design principles and best practices solutions via wireframes prototypes and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred).
• Strong design system experience with advanced Figma component design skills (auto layout component properties variants and library management).

Required Skills/Experience The rest of the required skills/experience. Include:

• Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs user goals and measures of success
• Visualizes concepts and design through sketches wireframes and prototypes to validate product concepts with users team members and stakeholders.
• Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)
• Experience creating and aligning ta design system. Building style guides pattern libraries and components to codify a products design language.
• Component library management version control and collaboration workflows in Figma.
• Ability to design components optimized for responsiveness including mobile tablet and desktop variations.
• Strong understanding of component scalability. Design once use everywhere.
• Plans sets up and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
• Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customers touchpoints with a product
• Research current design and technology trends cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
• Structure organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users
• Iterates on designs based on user feedback
• Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building

Preferred Skills/Experience Optional but preferred skills/experience. Include:

• Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
• Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
• Experience leading a project and/or team. Strong leadership skills.

Education/Certifications Include:

• Bachelors degree in related field required
• Masters degree in related field preferred
• Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.

EEO Employer
LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color sex religion sexual orientation national origin disability genetic information pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal state or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization including hiring recruiting promotion termination layoff recall leave of absence compensation benefits training and apprenticeship. LanceSoft makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications merit and business needs at the time.

Required Experience:

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