UX Designer

Job description

Job Description

UX Designer

Position Description
CGI is currently seeking a UX (User eXperience) Designer for our Ohio Public Sector design and development team. The UX Designer will partner with project liaisons, business analysts, team leads, architects, developers, and functional testing team to produce a variety of desktop, tablet, and mobile experiences to support social workers and child welfare specialists.

The UX Designer role can include user-centered research efforts, organize client working sessions or workshops, conducting user tests to observe behavior and use of software, and perform quality checks on software as it is being built by other team members.

Your future duties and responsibilities
- Leading and facilitating research-driven workshops and co-leading requirements gathering with client business analysts and team architects

- Synthesizing understanding into user stories, high-level requirements, user journeys, interaction models or process/user workflow diagrams

- Communicating scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs with internal team members as well as client

- Translates business and functional requirements into wireframes and interactive prototypes using prototyping tools (such as Axure RP 8)

- Curate collaborative component library with Front End Development Lead(s), develop best practices and/or style guide to share with design and development team as new projects begin

- Have in-depth knowledge of the Section 508 law and WCAG 2.0 Level A / AA technical standards/checklists; and know how to apply to the design and application

- Use available online tools, such as screen readers to determine accessibility conformance of generated application markup

- Conducting user testing of applications, software and websites as needed

- Heuristic evaluation of existing application(s) for general experience efficacy

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Undergrad in Multimedia Design, Digital Design, Communication Design, Interaction Design, HCI/Human Factors, Industrial Design, or related

- 3-5+ years Digital User Experience Design, Web, or Mobile Application Design

- Solid grasp of web application and mobile development concepts and can speak at a technical level with team developers and architects

- Familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript concepts and modern browser capabilities - other coding skills not required but considered a plus

- Ability to interpret and meet WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA accessibility standards (related to Section 508 refresh), and provide oversight for accessibility planning and execution

- Portfolio of sample projects highlighting design for web based applications, mobile applications & consumer facing web sites and/or applications

- An understanding of the latest design and technology trends, best practices and competitive activity

- Strong sense of graphic design, font design, layout, color, and style, and also have a deep appreciation for simple, sleek, usable interfaces.

- Ability to work well with ambiguity and create options for design when requirements are still in flux

- Proven experience showing clear understanding of the intersection between user needs, technology requirements, and business goals

- Strong problem-solving skills

- Excellent organizational, time and project management skills

- Must be an champion for user-centered design

Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.

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Skills

·  HTML
·  JavaScript

Reference

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