Career Job for Senior UX Designer in Cape Town Feb 2024

Career Job for Senior UX Designer in Cape Town Feb 2024

 
We are looking for a senior user experience (UX) designer with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user experiences.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to a design project. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, young, creative, hard working people to join us. We offer market-related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives and flows.
• Build wireframes and convert wireframes into a working prototype.
• Collaborate with technical leads in order to design innovative and engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
• Work closely with the UI designers to ensure adherence to design guidelines and best practices across all platforms.
• Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
• Work closely with the development and QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
• Measure the effectiveness of each initiative and refine.
• Research interaction design trends.
• Research technology trends.

Skills:

Design skills

• Information architecture and information design.
• Interaction design.
• Persona creation.
• User-centered design.
• UI design.
• Wireframing and prototyping.
• Copywriting.

Research skills

• Ethnography.
• Task analysis.
• Market research.
• Usability testing.
• A/B testing.
• Data analysis.
• Web analytics.

Technical skills

• Deep understanding of what’s possible and doable in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of common software development practices.

Business skills

• Business analysis.
• Communication skills (written, verbal and visual).
• Chairing workshops and meetings.
• Project and people management.
• Collaboration.

Tools:

Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools

• Wireframing tools (e.g. Axure, Balsamiq, etc.)
• Process flow tools (e.g. Visio etc.)

Experience and qualifications:

• At least three to five years’ experience in a UX design role.
• Proven experience designing user-centric iOS and Android native mobile applications.
• Proven experience building wireframes and converting wireframes into a working prototype.
• Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications.