11 Mar
User Experience Designer
California, Paloaltoca , 94301 Paloaltoca USA

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Title: Sr UX/UI DesignerContract: 3 months (potential to extend up to 1 year)Remote OpportunityStart Date: ASAPNo C2C/Corp-to-CorpMust be authorized to work in US without restriction or sponsorshipResponsibilities:SWS is seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer to take a leading role in defining the user experience, information architecture, and visual design requirements on a wide variety of projects. In this role, you will: Lead design on client-funded projects by collaborating with diverse team members to establish a user research strategy, develop a deep understanding of needs, and create thoughtful, accessible, and creative solutions. Prioritize, organize, and produce UX/UI assets, including user journeys, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, and partner closely with developers to deliver creative solutions that are aligned with our technical architecture. Continually improve products by advocating for the user and integrating client and user feedback into project cycles. Grow our team's UX and design practices by leading design reviews, establishing standards and processes, and encouraging peer feedback. Lead and conduct user research, create personas, identify required tasks and information flows for given systems. Create design artifacts, including information architecture, requirements, wireframes, data flows, graphic design assets, and related documentation. Make designs compliant with Stanford's online accessibility policies through implementing alternative technologies. Create application code to manifest the designs, or work with software engineers to develop them. Define usability testing on applications during the development lifecycle. Maintain an understanding of evolving industry standards and trends. Find opportunities to refine existing capabilities and demonstrate new ones. Analyze metrics and user feedback for issues and opportunities for improvement; collaborate closely with others to identify defects in application functionality or design and create strategies for mitigation. Collaborate with partners to develop and maintain consistent standards for the end-to-end user experience.Skills: Bachelor's degree and five years of experience or combination of education and relevant experience. Ability to define UX vision and inspire others to execute against it. Advantaged knowledge of computer systems, business processes and workflow. Demonstrated experience in designing web applications Experience with designing and front-end development of websites built with Drupal and WordPress. Experience in current web technologies, such as JavaScript, AJAX and HTML5, CSS, SASS. Experience in responsive design, and application of HCI to mobile application development. Experience in designing for accessibility, ensuring adequate access to information through assistive technologies. Defining and leading user research, user testing, usability testing and analysis. Skill in developing specifications and mockups using UI design tools and/or programming in web application languages. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to bridge functional and technical resources by communicating effectively with individuals of varying systems expertise. Ability to design and document sophisticated business systems. Proven problem solving and analytical thinking and ability to approach problems logically and systematically. Demonstrated ability to lead projects and multidisciplinary teams

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