POSTED: 15 March 2019

Senior User Experience Designer

Category: Location: Cape Town Salary: R45k - 55k per month

Information

This position reports to the UX Team Lead,

Responsibilities

-Collaborate with product managers & business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives & flows.

– Build wireframes & convert wireframes into a working prototype.

– Collaborate with technical leads to design innovative & engaging user

experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.

– Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.

– Work closely with the UI designers to ensure adherence to design guidelines & best practices across all platforms.

– Work closely with the development & QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.

– Measure the effectiveness of each initiative & refine.

– Research interaction design trends.

– Research technology trends.

 

Skills

Design skills

– Information architecture & information design

– Interaction design

– Persona creation

– User-centered design

– UI design

– Wireframing & prototyping

 

Research skills

– Task analysis

– Market research

– Usability testing

– A/B testing

– Data analysis

– Web analytics

 

Technical Skills

– Deep understanding of what’s possible and doable in HTML, CSS &

JavaScript.

– Strong understanding of common software development practices.

 

Business Skills

– Business analysis

– Communication skills (written, verbal & visual)

– Feedback presentations of design solutions

– Collaboration

 

Tools

Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools.

– Wireframing tools (e.g. Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch, InVision etc)

– Process flow tools

 

Experience & Qualifications

– At least 5 years’ experience in a UX design role, preferably in an e-commerce environment.

– Proven experience designing user-centric iOS & Android native mobile applications.

– Proven experience building wireframes & converting wireframes into a working prototype.

– Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms.

– Relevant tertiary qualifications.



where to find us

304 manhattan place, 130 bree street, cape town, 8001

info@recruitdigital.co.za / 021 424 6865