Location
North York, ON | Canada
Job description
This is a contract position for a UX Designer for our public sector client.
Work location: Downtown Toronto
Duration: Twelve Months
7.25 hours/day
This is a Hybrid role that requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days of the week (This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non-negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.)
Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces.
Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes.
General Skills:
Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance
Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications
Proficiency with design and prototyping tools
Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies
Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience
Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing
Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
Experience facilitating the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
Desirable Skills:
Knowledge of network security and network protocols
Qualifications
Angular components design experience, google material design, Flex-Layout experience, experience with low - high fidelity prototyping/ wireframing tools like Wireframe.cc, Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, interactive prototypes/, storyboards experience
Proven experience in leading and executing user research (qualitative and quantitative), to develop research scenarios, flows, questions, and testing script for different user groups
Experience to lead UX design discovery sessions with business stakeholders to define personas, goals, user journeys, and pain points
Experience with designing responsive Cloud based web and mobile applications for a variety of devices/browsers/screen sizes that are following the Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0)
Agile experience, experience using Product backlog, user stories/epics under DevOps/TFS
Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
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