Hearst Media Services: UI Designer (Temporary)

UI Designer is needed in Chicago, United States.

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Client: Hearst Media Services

Location: Chicago, United States

Contract: Part Time

Why iCrossing

For over 20 years, iCrossing has been partnering with the world’s largest B2B and B2C brands to provide connected marketing & technology solutions that transform brand experiences and marketing strategies into superior business outcomes. Our human centric approach evolves customer experience, employee experience, and user experience across digital and physical channels powered by data and intelligent creative. We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form iCrossing community. What we do starts with our people. We are part of the Hearst Corporation, the world’s leading media, entertainment, and content company, which gives us access to the most valuable data and insights, talent and audiences.

About this job

iCrossing is looking for a super talented UI Designer for a temporary assignment, with a passion for design and knowledge of Figma and other collaborative design tools. The candidate will be responsible for designing and shaping amazing user-centric products and experiences. The ideal candidate will be passionate about crafting beautiful and functional user interfaces. They should be familiar with working collaboratively, incorporating direction from team members and stakeholders, interfacing with developers, UX designers and working with copy/content writers. You will be able to make deliberate design decisions and have the opportunity to craft any given user-experience journey into a memorable and intuitive interaction.

What You’ll Do

• Create functional and beautiful user interfaces.
• Take ownership of the look and function of existing design components in Figma.
• Collaborate closely with UX team to translate wireframes into layouts.
• Create amazing prototypes.
• Find innovative ways to optimize existing user interface designs.
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of the user experience within a webpage, app, or other digital product, ensuring all interactions are intuitive and easy for customers.
• Become an expert and advocate of branding guidelines, digital design systems and how we apply them.
• Plan and implement new designs.
• Help build out presentations to convey project plans to clients and management.
• Audit and expand existing design systems.

Who You Are

• 3-5 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UI design; portfolio required
• You are a great collaborator and expert who can inspire others with the latest UI trends and current design strategy and technology
• An expert in design software like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, inVision, Axure, etc… Figma experts will go to the top of the list. Should also be familiar with the Adobe Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc…) and the ability to work in MSOffice tools like PowerPoint when necessary.
• Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to optimize design solutions for the best possible outcome
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently
• Ability to communicate & collaborate effectively with others to create top-performing interfaces
• Excellent written and interpersonal skills

Our Mission & Values

The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The “we” is implied, but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work, the way we think, the way we treat one another, and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans, and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules. Our core values map back to our vision.

Be Kind:

Lead with compassion. What you truly know about someone’s life is very little.

Lead with Candor:

Know the line. Is what you say true, good, and useful?

We Before Me:

Lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts.

We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.

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