UX / UI Designer

Independent technology and business solutions provider delivering innovative digital experiences.

The purpose of this job is to execute visual and interaction design web and/or mobile applications.

Key Performance Areas:

• Customer Relations.
• Analysis & elicitation of design & user experience requirements.
• Documentation skills, i.e. the standard, quality and clarity of documents.
• The ability to solve problems.
• Billable hours.
• Quality of designs artefacts
• Communication skills, written and verbal
• Quality of wireframes and mock-ups
• Responsible for designing elegant, simple, hard-working interfaces that may be used by hundreds of thousands of people every day
• Working with the business analysts, product owners, businesses, management and tech leads to understand and translate business problems into product features
• Sketching on paper and whiteboards to help others develop an idea
• Using Axure, Invision, balsamiq, or other tools to create high and low fidelity wireframes
• Presenting prototypes to users to see how well your design works
• Monitoring and reviewing the product team’s output at every stage
• Making decisions that will push the team to produce a better product
• Evangelizing UX design to your team’s business partners
• Mentoring other UX designers
• Helping to shape how the design team will grow and evolve as the product does

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 Senior Certificate (Matric)
• A relevant degree or diploma in graphical design and/or user experience design.
• Courses/Certifications in related area of specialist (HTML5, mobile technologies, web design) advantageous
• Courses/certifications in Usability (advantageous)
• Courses/certifications in Graphic Design software (Adobe suite, etc) (advantageous)
• Courses/certifications in Prototyping software (Axure, etc) (advantageous)
• Courses/certifications in Digital Marketing (advantageous)

Knowledge:

• Good knowledge of mobile UI guidelines for Web, Hybrid and Native Mobile applications and the nuances between them
• An impressive background with experience creating interfaces, large-scale web or mobile apps
• An intuitive feeling for the way products should be across apps, web, kiosk and other touch points
• Experience leading interdisciplinary teams in creating products that consider innovation and usability
• Digital Marketing
• User Interface & User Experience Design
• Web Design
• Mobile Design (iOS phone & tablet, Android phone & tablet, Mobile Web, Web, Responsive Web, Hybrid)
• User Journeys
• Personas
• Storyboarding
• Wireframes, POCs, Mock-ups
• Prototyping
• Creation of graphical elements using graphic design software
   
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Premiere
  • InDesign
     
• Mobile Web technologies (HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery)
• Development Best Practices.
• Development Methodologies.
• HTML5 and CSS
• Understanding of Style Guides
• Design languages
• Conduct usability assessments
• Rapid prototyping tools:
   
  • Axure
  • Balsamiq
  • Invision
     

• Atlassian suite of products (JIRA, Confluence) (Advantageous)
• Exposure to an AGILE software development environment (Advantageous)
• Source Control Systems (Advantageous)
• AGILE Software Development Practices (Advantageous)
• Business Analysis Experience (Advantageous)

Experience:

• Engaging presentation and visual communication skills
• Requirements gathering workshops
• Creation of POC’s
• Creation of Wireframes
• Information Architecture Definition
• Site map design
• Usability Reviews
• Estimation of effort required to carry out design tasks
• Digital Marketing
• Creation of responsive designs
• iOS (phone and tablet)
• Android (phone and tablet)
• Creating Corporate Identities
• Colour Palate definition
• Exposure to AGILE development practices
• Atlassian tools or other task tracking & collaboration toolkits (advantageous)
• Web & Mobile Analytics.(advantageous)
• Source Control Systems (advantageous)

Skills:

• Collaboration with clients at all levels
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Presentation skills
• Research
• User modelling (personas and scenarios)
• Interaction design
• Interface design
• Graphical element definition and design
• Logo and Icon design
• Information architecture & information design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Be able to give accurate estimates
• Be able to interact well with management and colleagues
• Be able to successfully adapt to changing demands and conditions
• Usability testing principles and methods
• Understanding of bit-depth, pixel density and resolutions
• Graphical User Interface screen layout and composition
• Page Layout and composition

Behavioural Competencies:

• Openness to feedback with knowledge of when to defend design choices
• Critical thinker, open minded
• Strong design skills
• Ability to rapidly sketch ideas in various media (verbal, whiteboard, electronically)
• Strong articulation skills
• Open to critique
• Presentable
• Pragmatic
• Diligent
• Perseverance
• Proactive
• Planning and organising
• Individually driven and motivated
• Reliable and responsible
• Enthusiastic
• Passionate about design
• Approachable