UI DESIGNER
Location: Downtown Toronto, Business Core
Hybrid Working
Salary: Market rate +
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide advice and guidance to assigned Client team on design rationale, user experience perspective, and user-centered design practices.
- Develop solutions and makes recommendations based on an understanding of the business strategy and stakeholder needs.
- Provide advice and guidance to assigned business/group on implementation of solutions.
- Deliver detailed design artifacts (e.g. visual designs, mock-ups, prototypes).
- Stay informed of changes and trends in the creative and design community to enhance skillset over time and brings new ideas/perspectives.
- Develop knowledge related to design and / or area of design specialty e.g. User Experience Design (UX Design), User Interface Design (UI Design), Visual Design, User Design Research and Design Operations.
- Prototype ideas to share concepts and learn from users.
- Supports the development and application of the established design and measurement framework to set design direction and create design consistency.
- Develop an understanding of the digital solution design interactions and user flows for the user experience in order to design solutions options.
- Present design concepts at stakeholder review meetings and engages in a friendly critique session in order to come up with a great design.
- Plan, conceptualize, design & execute key design elements and design solutions as required to meet overall project timelines to execute business strategy e.g. communications content, visual designs, mock-ups, prototypes, screens, workflow, wireframes, campaigns, etc.
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or in a related discipline.
- Strong communication skills.
- Around 5 years of relevant experience.
- Knowledge of web and mobile app design.
- Knowledge of User Experience / User Interface principles and best practices, user research techniques.
- Experience working within cross-functional teams and using lean/agile design practices.
- Proficient with Figma and other design and collaboration software such as Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, Mural, etc.
- Familiar with capabilities of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, Java Script).
- Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong Data driven decision making.