User Interface UI / UX Designer

Globalpundits Inc
Columbia, SC
29 Oct 2024

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Required Work Experience:
  • 2 years user interface design experience.

Required Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Research, Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associates degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Research, Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.

Required Skills and Abilities:
  • Solid technical knowledge of user experience and usability best practices and methodologies. Solid understanding of page layout and interface design concepts.
  • Solid understanding of markup and style sheet languages (HTML/CSS) and optimizing design concepts around these technologies. Good understanding of graphic design and typography.
  • Demonstrates flexibility for adapting to both changing business and client needs, and a changing technical environment.
  • Solid analytical and research skills.
  • Ability to interpret data and make appropriate recommendations. Ability to communicate effectively with technical and business staff.
  • Solid conceptual problem-solving skills. Ability to build and nurture relationships with customer and development teams.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/TEAM DETAILS:
  • Our UX Designers are not web developers - the candidate will be expected to focus on designing the visuals; understanding user behavior and feelings when interacting with the solution; and how our users will interact and navigate with the solution.
  • Our User Experience (UX) Design team builds relationships with our customers and I/S teams and is expected to collaborate with customers, digital strategists, usability designers, developers and web business specialists to create UX focused designs which align with the business partner roadmaps and other corporate initiatives.
  • We use agile, waterfall and hybrid approaches to project management across our customer lines of business.
  • The candidate could support commercial and government customers; serve on product or project teams and is expected to work closely with other members of the design organization including Business System Analysts, Solution System Designers, Technical Advisors, and Application and Enterprise Architects in addition to their customer and implementation teams.
  • There is a heavy meeting culture at CLIENT - candidate can expect to attend multiple meetings daily. We commonly use the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of products for design work.

Required Software and Other Tools:
  • Graphic design software. Microsoft Office.

Preferred Work Experience:
  • A portfolio or creative work.

Preferred Licenses and Certificates:
  • Certified Unsability Analyst (CUA).

Job Description
  • 40% Under the guidance of a higher level designer, creates user friendly, effective, and engaging user interfaces for platforms including mobile, tablet, or desktop applications. Hones the skills needed to create user interface design artifacts to describe the intended user experience.
  • 25% Provides appropriate support and documentation to help maintain the usability integrity of application systems. Learns to establish standards, best practices, and processes. Researches user centered design best practices, innovations, trends and methodologies.
  • 20% Learns to identify user needs, elicit user feedback, conduct user research activities and task flow analysis to improve user experience of each application. Synthesizes research findings into meaningful recommendations and actionable results. Share user data and insights with the team to communicate user needs and best practices. Tests and refines design decisions based on user feedback and analytics.
  • 15% Works as a member of a team to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders including the business and application development teams. Serves as a true advocate for our users and thoroughly understand how audiences interact with our applications. Evangelizes user experience best practices and collaborates with customer and internal team members to validate conceptual designs.

Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Research, Computer Science, IT or other job related degree;
  • OR Associates Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Research, Computer Science, IT
  • or other job related degree PLUS 2 added yrs. of exp.: 4 Years
  • OR 4 added years of job related work experience: 6 Years

Work experience:
  • User Interface Design experience: 2 Years
  • Solid technical knowledge of user experience and usability best practices and methodologies: 2 Years
  • Solid understanding of markup and style sheet languages (HTML/CSS) and optimizing design concepts around these technologies: 2 Years
  • Solid understanding of page layout and interface design concepts: 2 Years
  • Good understanding of graphic design and typography: 2 Years
  • Demonstrates flexibility for adapting to both changing business and client needs, and a changing technical environment: 2 Years
  • Required Software and Other Tools: Graphic design software. Microsoft Office: 2 Years
style="font-weight: 400;" style="font-weight: 400;" Globalpundits is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Globalpundits is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process.