UX Designer

Software Technology

Chicago, IL

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Best Practices, Competitive Analysis/Strategy, Competitive Research, Digital Circuit Design, Information Architecture, Mock Up, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Prototyping, Staff Development, Storytelling, Team Player, Technical Research, Test Plan/Schedule, Usability Testing, Use Cases, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface Design, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Wireframes
LOCATION
Chicago, IL
POSTED
3 days ago
Job Title

Major duties:

  • Works to improve user experiences with technology and business collaborators
  • Guides design to meet objectives and outcomes, influences business and technology decisions with user needs in mind
  • Contributes to an open culture that enables employee development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism
  • Creates user experiences, from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes while applying the NT Digital Design System.
  • Provides creative direction and conducts design reviews, balancing design decisions between research, technology, and business unit objectives
  • Solves experience problems and takes new perspectives on existing solutions
  • Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
  • Works within broad guidelines and policies
  • May collaborate in an agile environment or ad hoc in emerging experience projects.
  • Guides designers and researchers relative to the current project or digital product

Knowledge/Skills:

  • Ability to put Human-Centered Design and UI/UX best practices to work within a professional setting, as demonstrated in a work portfolio
  • Proficiency in a range of relevant design methods and concepts, which may include low-fidelity sketching, information architecture, wireframe development, usability testing, research planning, competitive analysis
  • Strong design skills in multiple competency areas (visual, interaction, information architecture, product)
  • Able to present work and decisions effectively, through presentation and storytelling skills
  • Ability to recognize, predict and incorporate use cases and user interactions into design
  • Highly flexible, adaptable to change and comfortable with ambiguity and critique
  • Effective use of collaborative/communication tools
  • Clear growth mindset, looking for opportunities to learn and motivated to approach challenges proactively

Experience Required:

  • 7+ years demonstrated work experience delivering digital experiences
  • Educated in design or related field, formally or though comparable training
  • Design thinking and UI/UX best practices, as demonstrated in a portfolio of professional work.

Required:

  • 7+ years demonstrated work experience delivering digital experiences
  • Educated in design or related field, formally or though comparable training
  • Design thinking and UI/UX best practices, as demonstrated in a portfolio of professional work.

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