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Donnelly and Moore

User Experience Designer (UI/UX Frontend)

Donnelly and Moore, New York, New York, us, 10261

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User Experience Designer (UI/UX Frontend)

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Project Details Are you passionate about problem solving and developing user interfaces that reflect both the clients requirements and the design teams intent? Do you have a strong sense of ownership for good work and not afraid to speak up? Are you collaborative, curious, empathetic, open-minded, innovative?

If yes, then read on!

Major Utilities Company is seeking a

User Experience Designer (UI/UX Frontend)

to collaborate with both users and stakeholders to renovate or update the user interface of an existing website/mobile application or develop ideas for a new user interface for a website/mobile application. The

User Experience Designer (UI/UX Frontend)

must understand the content a site will contain and help to develop a plan for structuring and presenting that content throughout the site.

What You Will Be Doing:

Responsible for implementing both visual and interactive elements that users engage with when using a web application

Role includes the translation of UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the web application

Collaborate with the UI/UX team and bridge the gap between graphic design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works

Validate all user input before submitting to back-end

Ensure the UI/UX designs are technically feasible

Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability

Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image.

Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus

Work in a collaborative environment, interfacing and developing relationships with groups from all areas of Company business team members, IT supporting teams, as well as vendor/contractor team members - in order to deliver solutions that benefit Company requirements analyses and deliver solutions that benefit Company overall

Follow health, safety, and environmental policies, EEO, Standards of Business Conduct, and all other applicable company policy and procedures

Share a responsibility to advance the company's mission by excelling at our three corporate priorities safety of our people and the public, operational excellence in all that we do, and ensuring the best possible customer experience

Skills and Requirements:

Experience developing user interfaces leveraging

HTML5 and CSS3

elements

Familiarity with

CSS pre-processors

(e.g. LESS, SASS) and style libraries (Bootstrap 3/4)

Experience with

modern build tools

(e.g. Webpack, Gulp, Grunt)

Experience

converting prototypes from design tools (e.g. Photoshop, Sketch, InVision) to functional, performant code

Inspired by combining the art of design with the art of programming

Ability to synthesize customer requirements, collaborate with designers and navigate the ever more complex CSS standards to produce elegant, responsive and functional user interfaces

Develop user interfaces that reflect both the clients requirements and the design teams intent

Demonstrates the value in taking an iterative and agile approach

Able and willing to travel within Company service territory, as needed

Able to participate in the Company's emergency management processes and storm plans as required

Education:

Bachelor's degree with 2+ years professional experience or high school diploma / GED with 5+ year work experience

Degree specialization in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or related focus is a plus

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