ICONMA
Our Client, a AV Manufacturing company, is looking for a Senior UX Designer for their Detroit, MI location.
Responsibilities
- The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end‑user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives. The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers. The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end‑users using human‑centered design principles and best practices.
- Participates in requirement‑gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success.
- Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.
- Establishes buy‑in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows).
- Experience creating and aligning to a design system. Building style guides, pattern libraries, and components to codify a product’s design language.
- Component library management, version control, and collaboration workflows in Figma.
- Ability to design components optimized for responsiveness, including mobile, tablet, and desktop variations.
- Strong understanding of component scalability. Design once, use everywhere.
- Plans, sets up, and executes on remote or in‑person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements.
- Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer’s touchpoints with a product.
- Research current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction.
- Structure, organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users.
- Iterates on designs based on user feedback.
- Advocates for human‑centered design through evangelization and relationship‑building.
- Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design.
- Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products.
- Communicate human‑centered design principles and best practices solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred).
Requirements
- User experience is part strategy, part research, part design.
- UX design.
- Strong design system experience with advanced Figma component design skills (auto layout, component properties, variants, and library management).
- Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
- Basic knowledge of programming and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
- Experience leading a project and/or team. Strong leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
- Master’s degree in related field preferred.
- Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.