UX Designer

Position: UX DesignerLocation: Jacksonville FLJob Description and Responsibilities:The Senior User Experience Analyst is responsible for understanding users’ needs and leveraging creative skills and knowledge of best practices in design and usability to synthesize user data into simple, engaging and effective user experience. The main responsibilities of the Senior User Experience Analyst are:

• Gather user requirements through user research, user interviews, brainstorming sessions , design workshops and/or focus groups with client stakeholders and end-users
• Work closely with client stakeholders, business analyst, content strategists and visual designers to define the user experience strategy for the project
• Lead cross disciplinary team to do contextual enquiries at customer premises, collaborate with UX researches who conduct field research, ethnographic studies and benchmarking studies, if required.
• Define user profiles, document key task flows and scenarios and create personas to help focus and guide the user interface design process
• Define information architecture and navigation model for the project; using techniques like card sorting and reverse card sorting wherever necessary
• Documenting functional aspects, interactions and experiences through deliverables like sketches, wireframes and design annotations
• Subject early-stage designs to usability testing or expert review
• Work with graphic designers to translate the low fidelity wireframes into exciting and compelling visual designs
• Act as the user-advocate during the development process, offering implementation suggestions from a user-perspective and ensuring adherence to best practices and standards in user interface design
• Communicate, specify and describe their designs and its rationale unambiguously to researchers, developers, testers, project stakeholders, senior leadership and other designers through theories and methods backed up by user research and best practices
• Work with presales and sales teams in winning new business by creating designs in response to Request for Proposals (RFP) for new projects.
• Mentor junior user experience analysts and review and provide actionable feedback on their work and performance
• Provide thought leadership to continuously improve the company’s user experience consulting processes and service offerings and evangelize user experience activities and design thinking in the company

• Experience in creating a responsive application for web and mobile platforms
• Proven track-record of hands-on user-interface/environment design leadership
• Ability to deliver quality work on time on multiple, simultaneous engagements.
• Adept at communicating ideas (both spoken and written)
• Proven ability to utilize large data sets in UX in a simple, intuitive manner.