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Location: Remote - open to candidates in EST time zone Duration: through 2025 Pay: ~$65/hour, DOE
Planet Interactive's client a not-for-profit educational organization, is looking for a UX / UI Designer. This position will be 40 hours a week and accepting candidates located in Eastern Time Zone.
The UX / UI Designer will work closely with the design team, product leads, and engineering partners to develop creative solutions that meet business goals and user needs. This role will play a vital role in maintaining a consistent digital testing and reporting brand across various channels, in order to reach the audience effectively.
The ideal candidate is highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research. They embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and respect and value project partners. Through research and discovery, the person will stay informed about end users and leverage data to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.
Responsibilities
Support Design Research (generative and evaluative) initiatives for team/products
Analyze business and technical requirements, lead synthesis sessions with team, following agile and lean methodologies
Create user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways, develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams
Partner with the Accessibility and Design Standards teams to ensure designs are compliant?and ensure brand and pattern alignment
Create and present concepts/deliverables to team and stakeholders
Collaborate with developers through tools like Figma and Zeplin
Contribute to the overall UX/UI design strategy, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all products
Document and present design updates to stakeholders and users
Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience
Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met
Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for customers
Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns
Manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work
Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align visual design approach with project goals, and the Brand
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or equivalent years of work experience
5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience
A portfolio of work is required
Advanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, responsiveness, accessibility, branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design.
Passionate about visual design, UX, and research and have extensive experience in information design and user scenarios, digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet).
Experience with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews.
Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions.
Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus.
Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a team
Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently.
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