Sr UX Designer

Subject: Sr UX Designer


Chicago-Hybrid-3 days on site


Description


This position is responsible for assisting in shaping the customer experience across digital and non-digital channels using a variety of internal tools (websites, portals and applications); working with the solution owners and business teams to clarify user requirements, understanding of user roles, creating designs, testing with users and incorporating feedback into the designs; partnering with IT architects and developers to ensure the designs are feasible and can be delivered; assisting in creating wire-frames and high fidelity UI mockups according to requirements and customer design standards; and providing a foundation for ensuring the ability to consume the IT solutions.


Required Job Qualifications:


*Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in User Experience and/or Human Factors Engineering.
*Experience gathering and prioritizing user requirements and designing user interface externals.
*Understand the limitations of the platform and the technology on which it will be delivered when designing new features and enhancements.
*Understand current and emerging e-commerce related technologies.
*Experience in applied UX research and design expertise in mobile and tablet solutions.
*PC experience and skills including Microsoft office applications of Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Preferred Job Qualifications:
*Bachelor Degree in Marketing or Business Administration.
*Working knowledge of Dreamweaver, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, DoJo, Balsamiq, iRise, Excel, SPSS, Symphony, EFM/Web Surveyor, and Survey Monkey.

Overall duties:


Walk through current usage with users and SMEs (in conjunction with the business analysts)
• Creating low-fidelity wireframes and testing them
• Creating high-fidelity wireframes and validating them as needed

we are looking for is a resource who is good with Figma (design tool).

Notes from call:

• Looking for senior designers, journey mapping.
• Still want basic UX skills.
• Syntheses of data.
• Design background is really important.
• Having understanding of development is a plus not required. Already have a development team.
• Prototyping and wireframing: Azure currently but switching over to sketch.
• UX design for mobile big plus.
• Actively designing mobile sites, this experience would be a big plus.
• Be able to present a good story from research.
• Min 4 years of experience.
• Projects/ environment background is more important.
• Top 3 skills: take over a research project- would have help from researcher but take plan and conduct user interviews and synthesize into a report, be able to work in a design system- sketch or iRise and in conjunction with a library. , passion about design.
• Healthcare not required.

Agile methodology background important.


In UI/UX design, "low-fi" and "hi-fi" wireframes refer to the level of detail and visual fidelity in a design representation, with "low-fi" being a basic, simple sketch-like layout focusing on core functionality and "hi-fi" being a highly detailed, polished version that closely resembles the final product, including colors, fonts, and interactive elements; essentially, low-fi is used for early concept exploration while hi-fi is used for near-final design presentation and user testing.