Career Job for Senior UX Designer in Cape Town Feb 2024
| Remuneration: | R45000 – R60000 per month negotiable Basic salary |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Type: | Full-time |
| Reference: | #613 |
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.