Ansys is hiring: UX Designer in Canonsburg

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Summary / Role Purpose

The User Experience Designer creates easy and delightful experiences for users of Ansys products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an introductory role, intended to expose the UX professional to many aspects of their UX careers.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and evaluates components of cutting-edge user interfaces
• Creates, evaluates, and modifies prototypes to support evolving software application development
• Assists and independently analyzes findings of usability studies and user research to create reports based on findings
• Creates iconography and other in-application widgets with behaviors
• Surveys competition for key-takeaways and critical functionality
• Works under the close supervision

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements And Experience

• BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, or Industrial Design
• Experience with Design tools such as Figma, Adobe tools such as Photoshop / Illustrator
• Experience with Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) in any form

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Particular Experience with:
• Modeling and simulation applications: SpaceClaim, Creo, Solidworks, Fusion360 / Inventor, or Rhino, and any ANSYS products
• UX design and collaboration tools: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, AfterEffects, MS Excel, Powerpoint and Word
• Tools & technologies for UI implementation: Visual Studio, WPF, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Ability to:
• Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design
• Organize deliverables for future reflection and current investigations
• Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc.
• Learn new tools for rapid prototyping