JRD Systems: UI Designer

UI Designer is needed in Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Client: JRD Systems

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Contract: Contractor

Responsibilities:

- The Interaction Designer / User Researcher / Usability Tester is part of a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team focused on improving usability, user experience, and driving user adoption and engagement.

- Responsible for conducting user research, analysis & synthesis, persona development, interaction design, and usability testing.

- Conduct stakeholder interviews, user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture, interaction design, and usability testing.

- Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture.

- Lead participatory and iterative design activities, including observational studies and other forms of requirements discovery.

- Produce user requirements specifications & experience goals, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.

- Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale and goals both verbally and visually.

- Plan and facilitate collaborative critiques and analysis & synthesis working sessions.

- Work closely with visual designers and development teams to ensure that customer goals are met and design specifications are delivered upon.

- Design and develop primarily internet/web pages and applications.

- Develop proof-of-concepts and prototypes of easy-to-navigate user interfaces (UIs) that consist of web pages with graphics, icons, and color schemes that are visually appealing.

- Research user needs as well as potential system enhancements.

- Code, test, debug documents, and implement web applications using a variety of platforms.

- Plan, recruit, and facilitate the usability testing of a system.

- Analyze and synthesize the results of usability testing to provide recommendations for change to a system.

- Create artifacts such as Usability Testing Plan, Testing Scripts, and Usability Testing Report.

Skills:

- Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, and Figma skills.

- Wireframing, prototyping, and responsive design principles skills.

- Information architecture skills for complex websites.

- User-centric design approaches and usability principles skills.

- User requirements documentation and user-friendly design skills.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Experience:

- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in conducting user research, analysis & synthesis, persona development, interaction design, and usability testing.

- 5 years of experience designing intuitive and engaging user interfaces, including developing information architectures, particularly for Drupal-based websites.

- 5 years of experience designing and implementing complex information architecture.

- 5 years of experience with Drupal’s content structure and how it impacts user experience design and information architecture.

- 5 years of experience conducting user research and usability testing to inform design decisions and information architecture strategies.

Education:

- Possession of a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Additional Requirements:

- Selected candidate will have to pass a live scan requirement performed by the Department.