UX/UI Designer (0618) KG - Midrand at Mediro Recruitment

Description

WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Plan and moderate user interviews to gain a better understanding of user needs and problems.
• Conduct user testing to ensure solutions solve user problems effectively and test if a design is usable.
• Conceptualise and iterate on design solutions for complex user & business problems, by creating UI and prototypes.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure designs are practical.
• Regularly involve and align with stakeholders and team members on design iterations.
• Contribute to describing and refinement of user stories (Agile development), e.g. support user stories with UI and prototypes.
• Take part in regular Scrum meetings via Teams like Daily’s, Sprint Planning, Refinements, Reviews and Retros.
• Take responsibility to lead a feature or design project from conceptualisation to implementation.
• Contribute to the development of a consistent user experience and ensuring the consistent use of Design Patterns through collaboration with other designers.
• Present user findings, design concepts and implemented solutions to stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements

ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong understanding of UX/UI methodologies, User-centred design, best practices and processes.
• Experience in conducting user research through user interviews, usability testing, surveys etc.
• Ability to analyse research to define user problems, needs and insights that inform design decisions.
• Skilled at creating user journeys, wireframes, task flows and understanding information architecture.
• Be able to visualise concepts and interactions, by creating and iterating on UI and prototypes from insights and feedback.
• Experience working with design tools such as Figma (preferably), Sketch or InVision.

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience working in an Agile Working Model.
• Confluence / Jira.
• Basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Effective at presenting and articulating design decisions.
• Advocate for the needs of the users and help create a shared understanding of UX principles amongst colleagues.
• Excellent communication skills and team-oriented work behaviour in a distributed cross functional team.
• Strong ability to understand and interpret business requirements, to design solutions that meet business needs.
• Close collaboration with developers to ensure feasibility of designs and ability to adapt when technical constraints arise.
• Support colleagues to ensure concepts move from proposal to successful implementation.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and written) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.
• Proficient in conducting user research in foreign markets i.e. language barriers may exist.

WHICH QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE DO WE NEED FOR THE ROLE?

• Portfolio of previous projects showing your UX process
• Relevant Interaction Design Degree / Information Design Degree / IT Degree / Diploma / equivalent work experience.
• 1-3 years’ experience as a UX/UI designer.
• At least 2 years' worth of experience using design software such as Figma, Sketch, In Vision