About the Role
This role involves creating effective, user-friendly, and visually appealing interfaces, and designing the overall functionality of a product to ensure a great user experience, iterating based on user testing.
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 v
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to define and lead UX projects and design workshops and alignment sessions with stakeholder, business users.
- Managing end-to-end user research from recruiting to synthesis.
- 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.
- Excellent understanding of user research methods and their application in service design.
- Strong proficiency in service design tools and techniques (e.g., journey mapping, service blueprinting, personas).
- Expertise in creating and interpreting customer journey maps and service blueprints to visualize service interactions.
Skills
- Figma
- Canvas
- Accessibility testing
- Ontario Design system
- Digital service standard
- Complex design challenges
- Legacy systems
- Nuanced stakeholder/approval relationships
- Designing with accessibility in mind
- WCAG 2.1 AA requirement
- Public Service/OPS experience
- Design Thinking
- Lean Six Sigma
Location
- 222 Jarvis St, Toronto, Ontario
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Client: Government Services Integration Cluster
- Province of Ontario
