Rq05681 - Ux Designer - Intermediate

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Job Title:RQ05681 - UX Designer - Intermediate

Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS)

Work Location:301 St. Paul St. St. Catharines, 222 Jarvis Ave. Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid

Estimated Start Date: 2023-07-04

Estimated End Date:2024-04-05

#Business Days: 189.00

Extension:61.00

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: No Clearance Required

(Click above for Skill matrix and for more details)

Must haves:

• IT background would be a plus
• Visual design
• Figma, adobe, photoshop

Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with and advise a variety of project and product teams on experience design, including serving as an assessor for ministry-wide digital initiatives.
• Facilitate a variety of design-thinking activities and collaborative sessions to understand the problem a digital solution needs to solve.
• Develop user personas, journey maps, service design blueprints, information architecture diagrams and other design artefacts as suits the needs of your project or product team.
• Translate concepts into wireframes, low and high-fidelity mock-ups that illustrate the product's functionality and can be used for usability testing and user research. Take a user-centred design approach and rapidly test and iterate designs.
• Plan and execute user research to understand user expectations, behaviors and needs to inform design decisions.

Responsibilities in:

• Transferring research findings into actionable design recommendations.
• Experience creating visually appealing vector assets (e.g. flat vector product images, icons, etc).
• Research and analysis
• Proven experience building relationships liaising with external partners and vendors to coordinate projects and share information.
• Experience facilitating the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Experience in designing online programs/applications with multiple levels of user roles, large amount of users, and/or any other enterprise level applications.
• Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance.
• Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups, and low and high fidelity prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing. Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions.
• Experience in designing online programs/applications with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience.
• Strong facilitation skills to lead design discussions and negotiations, present recommendations and advice to stakeholders on web/content design and strategy.
• Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
• Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Change Management and Communication.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools.
• Ability to communicate visually as well as in verbal and written formats.
• Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and low and high fidelity prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Ability to collaborate and provide leadership and advice on digital product development.
• Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience. Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications.
• Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces according to current UX standards and trends.
• Using communication skills to discuss issues, seek common ground between parties, lead development of solutions and user experience development requirements.
• Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies.
• General Skills and Experience:
• Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Knowledge of UX research methodologies.
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure, processes, and technology (would be an asset). Knowledge of graphic design standards and trends. Knowledge of current UX design standards and trends.

Experience And Skill Set Requirements

Portfolio Review - 30%

Parameters:

• The resource has provided an adequate portfolio of past work with details of their involvement with each project.

Agile/Scrum development process -20%

• Working knowledge of usability methodologies including user-centric design, usability research and user testing.
• Examples of previous work experience focused on user experience research and design.
• Parameters:

Experience -20%

• Experience in Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, Sketch, Balsamiq or other visual design and wireframing tools.
• Examples of previous work experience focused on user experience research and design.
• Knowledge of the latest Web trends, techniques and technologies.
• Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps.
• Parameters:

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Note:

This position is currently listed as "Hybrid" however, the consultant will be remote due to COVID-19 related Work from Home (WFH) direction. Once the I&IT cluster staff are required to return to the office, the resource under this request will be required to work onsite as well.

• 2 days onsite is required

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