UX / UI Designer

Description

The purpose of this job is to execute visual and interaction design web and/or mobile applications.

Key Performance Areas:

• Customer Relations.

• Analysis & elicitation of design & user experience requirements.

• Documentation skills, i.e. the standard, quality and clarity of documents.

• The ability to solve problems.

• Billable hours.

• Quality of designs artefacts

• Communication skills, written and verbal

• Quality of wireframes and mock-ups

• Responsible for designing elegant, simple, hard-working interfaces that may be used by hundreds of thousands of people every day

• Working with the business analysts, product owners, businesses, management and tech leads to understand and translate business problems into product features

• Sketching on paper and whiteboards to help others develop an idea

• Using Axure, Invision, balsamiq, or other tools to create high and low fidelity wireframes

• Presenting prototypes to users to see how well your design works

• Monitoring and reviewing the product team’s output at every stage

• Making decisions that will push the team to produce a better product

• Evangelizing UX design to your team’s business partners

• Mentoring other UX designers

• Helping to shape how the design team will grow and evolve as the product does

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 Senior Certificate (Matric)

• A relevant degree or diploma in graphical design and/or user experience design.

• Courses/Certifications in related area of specialist (HTML5, mobile technologies, web design) advantageous

• Courses/certifications in Usability (advantageous)

• Courses/certifications in Graphic Design software (Adobe suite, etc) (advantageous)

• Courses/certifications in Prototyping software (Axure, etc) (advantageous)

• Courses/certifications in Digital Marketing (advantageous)

Knowledge:

• Good knowledge of mobile UI guidelines for Web, Hybrid and Native Mobile applications and the nuances between them

• An impressive background with experience creating interfaces, large-scale web or mobile apps

• An intuitive feeling for the way products should be across apps, web, kiosk and other touch points

• Experience leading interdisciplinary teams in creating products that consider innovation and usability

• Digital Marketing

• User Interface & User Experience Design

• Web Design

• Mobile Design (iOS phone & tablet, Android phone & tablet, Mobile Web, Web, Responsive Web, Hybrid)

• User Journeys

• Personas

• Storyboarding

• Wireframes, POCs, Mock-ups

• Prototyping

• Creation of graphical elements using graphic design software

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• Premiere

• InDesign

• Mobile Web technologies (HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery)

• Development Best Practices.

• Development Methodologies.

• HTML5 and CSS

• Understanding of Style Guides

• Design languages

• Conduct usability assessments

• Rapid prototyping tools: