TekWissen LLC is hiring: UX Designer Senior in Detroit

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a health insurance company. It offers different types of health care coverage plans that include individual and family dental and vision plans for employers etc.

Title

UX Designer Senior

Work Location: Detroit MI 48226

Duration: 13 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Dept: Transparency

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Engagement Description

• User experience is part strategy part research part design.
• 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.

Top 3 Required Skills / Experience

The most important must-have skills. Include:

Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following :

User research

• Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
• Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products

UX design

• Communicate human-centered design principles and best practices solutions via wireframes prototypes and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred).
• Strong design system experience with advanced Figma component design skills (auto layout component properties variants and library management).

Required Skills / Experience

• 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 products 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 customers 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

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
• Basic knowledge of programing 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.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelors degree in related field required
• Masters degree in related field preferred
• Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Key Skills

• CSS
• InVision
• Balsamiq
• HTML5
• Information Architecture
• Ux
• Usability
• WireframingUI
• Axure
• Responsive Web Design
• Sketch