UX Designer

Description of the role:

– Inter-act directly with business sponsors and subject matter experts to understand business and functional requirements and constraints, and converting them into appealing, highly usable interfaces.

– Engage with the business development team and/or customer early in the project lifecycle to seek a deeper appreciation of the customers business problems and goals.

– Develop an understanding of the end users of the websites/applications to be developed by conducting.

primary and secondary research, including user interviews, traffic data, existing systems, enterprise guidelines, etc., and communicate findings of user research.

– Carry out user modeling and task analysis and develop personas and scenarios.

– Create wireframes and visual design mockups as needed in order to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed user interaction behaviors.

– Ensure application-level consistency with respect to visual design and interaction components.

– Prepare low fidelity prototypes of sites/features ranging from draft concepts to wireframes or interactive prototypes for internal review and brainstorming.

– Create or advise on content architecture and navigation design, Design page level layout, page flow, and task fulfillment.

– Propose design solutions for identified usability problems in existing applications

– Present low and high-fidelity designs/mockups to clients for review, iteration, and approval.

– Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience.

– Make recommendations to solve complex interaction problems and improve overall user experience within an application and across different applications.

– Conduct heuristic reviews of websites and web applications

– Perform code reviews, mentor junior developers, and advocate for best practices.

Needed qualifications:

High level of visual design expertise.

Experience with the following:

Usability design, user-centered design

Information architecture, navigation design

Interaction design and graphic design User modeling and task analysis

Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript a plus

– Advanced knowledge of interaction design

– 3+ years of experience

– Proven experience designing responsive websites.

– Strong visual design skills; Able to explain his/her design philosophy verbally and in writing.

– Advanced skills in Photoshop, UX prototyping, Illustrator, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, Invision, wireframing, and other mapping tools.

– Track record of solving cross-browser/cross-platform UI compatibility issues, preferred cutting-edge knowledge of most recent UX/ – UI design standards and trends. Advanced knowledge of visual design, and information architecture

– Proficient understanding of the limitations of web and mobile application design, with ideas to flex those boundaries, strong understanding of technical feasibility of their designed prototypes.

– Advanced understanding of the trade-offs between optimum user experience and technical, information security, business constraints, and ability to propose optimized designs within those constraints.

– Demonstrable astuteness regarding aesthetics in web design, including layout, grid systems, color theory and typography.

– Capable of working directly with clients in an iterative and agile manner to dramatically improve prototypes in a short time.

– Competency in the following technologies: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap is major advantage.

– Advanced knowledge of graphic design and accessibility principles.

– Advanced understanding of information systems, application development standards and life cycle methodologies, particularly in a large-scale, Agile context.

– Knowledge of storyboarding/prototyping, Axure, usability testing, and survey tools.

– Knowledge of interaction design.

– Familiarity with principles of human computer interaction.

– Strong interpersonal, communication skills and a team player.

– Ability to produce deliverables within tight deadlines.

Gamito is a licensed recruitment agency under number 1820/16.12.2014 with free of charge services to the candidates.

Guidance and onboarding will be provided.

Regular Bulgarian working hours, also flexible work and excellent social package.