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Senior UX Designer

Toronto, ON · Hybrid · Contract

Rate

CAD $85–$95/hr

Duration

125 days

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Required skills

  • Figma
  • XDstudio
  • User Research
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • User Journey Mapping
  • Information Architecture

About the role

Senior UX Designer

User Experience / Product Design

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications

User Experience / Product Design

  • Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback
  • The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures
  • Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes
  • Demonstrated experience creating deliverables such as design blueprints, information architecture, presentations and reports.
  • A solid understanding of generative and evaluative user research methods and how user research can be incorporated continuously in the digital product lifecycle
  • Hands-on experience creating user research plans, recruiting participants, facilitating user research, analyzing findings and delivering insights
  • Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
  • Experience researching and applying industry best practices to support your design deliverables
  • The ability to incorporate web analytics, visitor feedback, performance metrics and other data to inform design decisions
  • Practice providing rationale for design decisions in group settings with multiple stakeholders
  • Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must
  • Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset

Communications

  • Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders
  • Ability to collaborate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design
  • Strong facilitation skills leading design discussions and negotiations

Agile Product Development

  • Experience working in an agile product teams
  • Demonstrated willingness to iterate work output based on feedback
  • Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries

Design Portfolio

  • Candidate to include the link to their portfolio of work

Must Have

  • Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback
  • The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures
  • Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes
  • Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must
  • Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset
  • Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders

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