Steampunk is looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer to guide government clients through their Design Intelligence™ framework, using human-centered methods to solve complex user experience challenges and ensure user needs are met within proposed solutions.
Requirements
- Tools: Mural, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite
- 10 years of professional UX and UI experience designing viable solutions for multi-platform digital products
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience conducting primary and secondary user-research including user interviews, discovery and co-creation workshops, heuristic evaluation, and card sorting (for example), and applying those insights to personas, journey maps, site maps, ecosystem maps, information architecture, and interface design
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience in UI design including wireframing, low- and high-fidelity prototyping, moderated and unmoderated usability testing, and accessibility testing
- Knowledge and experience with 508 compliance requirements
- Proficiency in tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Zeplin and other prototyping tools
- Experience collaborating within a multi-disciplinary delivery team including service designers, technologists, data scientists, engineers, solution architects, and change managers
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute UX initiatives from discovery through interface design, including research, prototyping, iteration, visual design, and usability and accessibility testing.
- Support other designers, product managers, and engineers with user research and usability testing and translate those results into designs that will improve products in an iterative fashion
- Develop low-fidelity wireframes and user flows to quickly iterate on design concepts in collaboration with product owners, ensuring alignment on user needs and business requirements while facilitating clear communication with the software engineering teams
- Design and develop interactive, high-fidelity clickable prototypes in Figma to communicate user flows, interface designs, and interactions, ensuring alignment with user needs and stakeholder feedback
- Act as a bridge between design and development teams, working closely with engineers to ensure design feasibility, accessibility compliance, and seamless implementation of user interfaces
- Create, maintain, and update a comprehensive Figma design library that leverages the US Web Design System (USWDS) while incorporating client-specific branding guidelines to ensure consistently and accessibility across digital products
- Ensure all designs adhere to accessibility best practices by applying WCAG 2.1+ standards, conducting accessibility audits, and collaborating with developers to implement design solutions that support users with a variety of abilities
Other
- Ability to obtain a U.S. government Public Trust Security Clearance
- Current portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft
- Experience working on a scrum team within the Agile delivery framework and experience integrating research and design into technical sprints including writing user stories and story pointing
- Desire to keep pace with ever-changing industry tools and best practices with the ability to make recommendations as needed for the best outcome
- A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analytical skills
