UX Designer at The Student Hub Online

About the job

• The Student Hub, an educational technology start-up specialising in developing innovative marketplace platforms within South Africa, are looking for a dynamic and talented UX/UI Designer to create amazing user experiences. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean designs, possess great UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artefacts and transform them into intuitive and functional user interfaces. This full-time position is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Responsibilities

•  Collaborate with the development team to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
•  Implement the latest design innovations to ensure that the product is in accordance with the cutting-edge technology
•  Own the process of taking in wireframes from UX and producing UI design assets for development.
•  Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks
•  Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
•  Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
•  Define user task flows and interaction models
•  Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
•  Design clear, simple and functional interfaces.
•  Create prototypes, wireframes, and mock-ups to demonstrate the functioning and layout of the
• product
•  Design across multiple channels and platforms e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, The Adobe Cloud Suit
•  Consistently produce creative elements/layouts against a deliverables list
•  Contribute to brainstorms and ideation sessions
•  Conduct customer and competitor analysis.
•  Optimizes UI designs and tests for intuitiveness and user-centeredness.
•  Conduct usability testing to identify gaps in design and see if they can be further improved

Requirements

•  2-4 plus years working experience in Digital Product Development, Web Design or Application

Design Space

•  Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio
•  Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
•  Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD, or other visual design and wire-framing tools
•  Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge for key functional understanding in rapid prototyping.
•  Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
•  Ability to produce quality UI work on a consistent basis2 | Page
•  Diligence to produce high-quality work
•  Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders, e.g. Marketing, Sales
•  Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
•  Up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
•  BS/MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or related field