UX Designer

The purpose of this job is to execute visual and interaction design web and/or mobile applications.

Key Performance Areas:

• Customer Relations.


• Analysis & elicitation of design & user experience requirements.


• Documentation skills, i.e. the standard, quality and clarity of documents.


• The ability to solve problems.


• Billable hours.


• Quality of designs artefacts


• Communication skills, written and verbal


• Quality of wireframes and mock-ups


• Responsible for designing elegant, simple, hard-working interfaces that may be used by hundreds of thousands of people every day


• Working with the business analysts, product owners, businesses, management and tech leads to understand and translate business problems into product features


• Sketching on paper and whiteboards to help others develop an idea


• Using Axure, Invision, balsamiq, or other tools to create high and low fidelity wireframes


• Presenting prototypes to users to see how well your design works


• Monitoring and reviewing the product team’s output at every stage


• Making decisions that will push the team to produce a better product


• Evangelizing UX design to your team’s business partners


• Mentoring other UX designers


• Helping to shape how the design team will grow and evolve as the product does

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 Senior Certificate (Matric)


• A relevant degree or diploma in graphical design and/or user experience design.


• Courses/Certifications in related area of specialist (HTML5, mobile technologies, web design) advantageous


• Courses/certifications in Usability (advantageous)


• Courses/certifications in Graphic Design software (Adobe suite, etc) (advantageous)


• Courses/certifications in Prototyping software (Axure, etc) (advantageous)


• Courses/certifications in Digital Marketing (advantageous)

Knowledge:

• Good knowledge of mobile UI guidelines for Web, Hybrid and Native Mobile applications and the nuances between them


• An impressive background with experience creating interfaces, large-scale web or mobile apps


• An intuitive feeling for the way products should be across apps, web, kiosk and other touch points


• Experience leading interdisciplinary teams in creating products that consider innovation and usability


• Digital Marketing


• User Interface & User Experience Design


• Web Design


• Mobile Design (iOS phone & tablet, Android phone & tablet, Mobile Web, Web, Responsive Web, Hybrid)


• User Journeys


• Personas


• Storyboarding


• Wireframes, POCs, Mock-ups


• Prototyping


• Creation of graphical elements using graphic design software
  
   
  
  • Photoshop
  
  
  • Illustrator
  
  
  • Premiere
  
  
  • InDesign
    
     
  
  


• Mobile Web technologies (HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery)


• Development Best Practices.


• Development Methodologies.


• HTML5 and CSS


• Understanding of Style Guides


• Design languages


• Conduct usability assessments


• Rapid prototyping tools:
  
   
  
  • Axure
  
  
  • Balsamiq
  
  
  • Invision
    
     
  
  

• Atlassian suite of products (JIRA, Confluence) (Advantageous)


• Exposure to an AGILE software development environment (Advantageous)


• Source Control Systems (Advantageous)


• AGILE Software Development Practices (Advantageous)


• Business Analysis Experience (Advantageous)

Experience:

• Engaging presentation and visual communication skills


• Requirements gathering workshops


• Creation of POC’s


• Creation of Wireframes


• Information Architecture Definition


• Site map design


• Usability Reviews


• Estimation of effort required to carry out design tasks


• Digital Marketing


• Creation of responsive designs


• iOS (phone and tablet)


• Android (phone and tablet)


• Creating Corporate Identities


• Colour Palate definition


• Exposure to AGILE development practices


• Atlassian tools or other task tracking & collaboration toolkits (advantageous)


• Web & Mobile Analytics.(advantageous)


• Source Control Systems (advantageous)

Skills:

• Collaboration with clients at all levels


• Teamwork


• Communication


• Presentation skills


• Research


• User modelling (personas and scenarios)


• Interaction design


• Interface design


• Graphical element definition and design


• Logo and Icon design


• Information architecture & information design


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills


• Excellent facilitation skills


• Be able to give accurate estimates


• Be able to interact well with management and colleagues


• Be able to successfully adapt to changing demands and conditions


• Usability testing principles and methods


• Understanding of bit-depth, pixel density and resolutions


• Graphical User Interface screen layout and composition


• Page Layout and composition

Behavioural Competencies:

• Openness to feedback with knowledge of when to defend design choices


• Critical thinker, open minded


• Strong design skills


• Ability to rapidly sketch ideas in various media (verbal, whiteboard, electronically)


• Strong articulation skills


• Open to critique


• Presentable


• Pragmatic


• Diligent


• Perseverance


• Proactive


• Planning and organising


• Individually driven and motivated


• Reliable and responsible


• Enthusiastic


• Passionate about design


• Approachable