UI/UX Designer

About the position

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer/Developer. This position is remote and falls under the State/City level work department. It is a full-time role for experienced professionals. Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Lead the effort to define, plan, and conduct user research throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), beginning in the Discovery phase.
• Create research guides and conduct iterative user research.
• Produce outputs from the discovery phase, including journey maps, personas, and other artifacts that will inform the design and development phases.
• Create prototypes using Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Invision, or similar standard UX/UI software to create iterative application flows in response to the ongoing user testing.
• Translate creative software design concepts and ideas into reality using front end technologies.

Requirements

• Expertise in conducting user research and producing related deliverables including but not limited to personas, journey maps, interview guides, mind maps, and research finding documents.
• Expertise in using standard UI/UX software such as Adobe Sketch, Invision, and XD to create intuitive application prototypes driven by best practices around Human-Centered Design and in compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
• Expertise in using front-end technologies such as Hyper Text Markup Language 5 (HTML5), Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3), and JavaScript to create responsive, and browser agnostic prototypes.