UX Interaction Designer Location: Salt Lake City, UT
About the team and who we are looking for:
The MindTouch Product team is growing and looking for a team member to join the team. The UX/UI Designer role will focus on the user design and experience throughout the product so that it is easy to use, intuitive, and aligns with our company vision of creating a best-in-class knowledge experience for our users. Researching, analyzing, and understanding user behavior is key to creating amazing user experiences.Therefore, UX/UI design, development, and on-time delivery management are essential to this role. Hands-on design work, including but not limited to: user research, creating wireframes, creating prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. The role will support our Product team and will be an integral member of the Engineering team. We are seeking someone who is passionate about getting things done quickly and efficiently by fostering healthy team dynamics. This is a special opportunity to be part of the team that is defining and driving the cutting edge of the MindTouch user experience by creating new and compelling experiences for the platform. You will help define and mature the core products and your work will be highly visible and improve the daily lives of our customers' customers.
Responsibilities:
Understand business objectives and result-oriented outcomes with a team-oriented approach; guide projects through iterations with expectations that people will have an opinion - solicited and unsolicited
Design, maintain, and be a steward to the MindTouch brand and company vision: product style guide, icon libraries, mock-ups & wireframes, product imagery/graphics, (re)usable design assets, living documentation with working examples of UI implementations of UX patterns, UX/UI roadmap and design language & process
Create, develop, and update high-quality user-centered design concepts
Create designs that work simply, elegantly, intuitively and engage users
Communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale to internal stakeholders
Collaborate with other designers and team members and provide guidance and review of concept generation and product design projects
Develop interactive prototypes for user/usability testing and rapid iteration, participate and make adjustments to features from usability testing results
Define and create user task and interaction workflows
Define, gather, and refine the user experience of features and products to achieve company goals and in collaboration with product owners/engineers, including identify and troubleshoot UX problems and make improvements based on user feedback
Identify user research needs and coordinate studies based on need, research and analyze user behavior and experience in the product
Run beta and usability testing and validation of features
Write user stories based on designs and user requirements
Identify user experience improvement opportunities, with an emphasis on usability and customer adoption, and present ideas to stakeholders
Requirements:
A portfolio of your work must be included in your resume to be considered
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Excellent time management skills
Strong interpersonal, verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
Strong understanding of how design works within agile development frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
Proven experience with UX/UI design processes and methodologies, applied to web-based applications
Experience in information design and data visualization is highly desirable
UI/UX Design Experience:
Minimum 3+ years of UX/UI Design experience
Strong knowledge and understanding of industry UX patterns and best practices
Experience with SaaS products
Passion, experience and talent for user-centered interaction design
Portfolio that demonstrates outstanding proficiency in web and native mobile application interaction design, including iOS and Android platforms
Knowledge of web performance best practices and the design and interaction patterns that support them
Knowledge of Accessibility standards following A11y and WCAG 2.0/2.1 best practices.
Knowledge and experience with the software design processes, UI design patterns, user-centered design principles and best practices
Experience with user-centered design methodologies, including information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, interaction flows and user research
Demonstrated proficiency with web and native mobile application design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or Figma
Agile development process knowledge and story writing experience
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