Lead User Experience Designer Job Description
Lead user experience designer
provides guidance, mentoring, and training to both IT and Business partners, in the design practices and standards that link back to best practices in Design Thinking and Customer Driven Design principles.
Lead User Experience Designer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Design wireframes and interactive prototypes for web, desktop, mobile and other devices
You will learn from and with our exceptional team of UX Designers located in Krakow and Dallas, Texas
You will define product vision and inspire others to execute against that vision
Your efforts will span the entire design cycle from needs analysis, to initial concepts, defining robust information architecture, creating user flows and corresponding wireframes, producing prototypes for testing, and on occasion, delivering final detailed specifications
Maintaining a user-centered design approach as you tackle complex design problems and influence product strategy
Guiding a small team of designers on day-to-day design work, reviewing designs, and providing constructive critique
Balancing tactical design work with strategic, blue sky thinking and helping other designers do the same
Advocating for simple, modern design and adherence to design conventions (e.g., responsive, accessibility)
Knowing design patterns like the back of your hand and knowing when to break them
Proactively identifying areas of the product that need improvement and driving those improvements into the product roadmap
Lead User Experience Designer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Lead User Experience Designer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP
Education for Lead User Experience Designer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the lead user experience designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Computer Science, Psychology, Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, Visual Design, Computer
Skills for Lead User Experience Designer
Desired skills for lead user experience designer include:
Current design programs
Business processes and operations
Organizational practices and business transformation
Project methodologies
Axure
CSS
Experience design tools irise
Omnigraffel
Viso
HTML
Desired experience for lead user experience designer includes:
7+ yrs experience in design roles at a consumer focused tech or media company
Thoughtful portfolio that showcases your design skills and illustrates your communication abilities by clearly describing your impact and what you learned for each project
Led the design effort across the entire product lifecycle and multiple product launches
Ability to rapidly lead and produce multiple UX/UI concepts and prototypes
Bachelor's degree with a minimum 2 years of UX design experience producing engaging, usable, and effective design solutions
Utilize research methods to understand users, their tasks, and their environments
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Lead User Experience Designer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of lead user experience designer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for lead user experience designer
- Creating annotated wireframes (low fidelity to high fidelity and everything in between)
- Creating pixel perfect visuals for product presentations or demos when needed
- Participating in product research and analysis, always striving to know the customers for which you are designing
- Collaborating deeply with user researchers, product managers and the engineering team throughout the product lifecycle to ensure your designs are addressing user and business needs, feasible to implement, and are subsequently implemented accurately
- Working on fast-paced projects, requiring attention to detail and working within constrained timelines
- Be responsible for and champion the overall experience and architecture across all channels and devices
- Facilitate workshops for journey mapping, brainstorming, vision sessions, and requirements gathering
- Drive innovative solutions within platform constraints and technical limitations
- Create deliverables such as site maps, journey maps, models, user flows, wireframes/designs, and prototypes
- Research and explore how emerging technology, design, behavioral, and health care trends can best be applied to client's member experience
Qualifications for lead user experience designer
- Robust knowledge of technology mediums, including a combination of Web 2.0, CSS3, HTML5, Obj C, , including an awareness of the relative strengths and weaknesses of each
- You have experience with design theories, principles, and concepts experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
- You know research best practices
- You are a self-starter and take a proactive stance toward achieving success on your projects
- You are seen as a valued partner
- You have strong communication skills across verbal, written, and visual presentation mediums
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead user experience designer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead user experience designer
- Define, design and test the functionality and interface of applications with user interfaces
- Conduct user research, create personas, identify required tasks and information flows for given systems
- Create relevant design artifacts and, including, but not limited to, information architecture, requirements, personas designs, wireframe and data flows
- Make systems compliant with Stanford’s online accessibility policies through implementing alternative technologies
- Create and lead graphic, visual and interactive design or work with specialists to merge these into the interface
- Create application code to manifest the designs, or work with software engineers to develop them
- Conduct usability testing on applications during the development lifecycle
- Analyze metrics and user feedback for issues and opportunities for improvement
- Contribute, maintain and review documentation on design assumptions, application requirements and specifications, business logic, training materials, help text, and release notes
- Design web products that facilitate relationships between organizations and their constituents
Qualifications for lead user experience designer
- You have experience across mobile, web, software, and service design projects
- You have experience on all kinds of product lifecycles from hardware product development, traditional waterfall software development, to Agile development environments
- Strong skills in creative design and prototyping tools such as AxureRP and Adobe Creative Suite
- A Bachelor’s, Master’s, or higher degree in Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Psychology or equivalent with 10+ years of design experience for software, web, or mobile applications, and/or consumer electronics
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field
- A professional portfolio demonstrating a deeply grounded background in interaction design (note, candidates without a portfolio will not be considered)
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Our growing company is hiring for a lead user experience designer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead user experience designer
- Use a human-centered design approach where you’ll be a key contributor to research, strategy, design, and validation for the products you work on
- Communicate effectively with product and engineering to define, prioritize, and deliver the requirements, use-cases, and design assets that will bring your product to life
- Translate user and stakeholder needs into mockups and develop interactive prototypes
- Collaborate with workgroups and stakeholders to finalize mockups and interaction requirements
- Utilize internal data and Google Analytics to identify UX opportunities
- Promote designs and projects internally
- Support projects from the concept stage through to production
- Talk with customers
- Wire-framing > Mocking up UI/UX flows > and delivering pixel perfect, intuitive UI Designs that users love
- Ensure efficient use of design resources and budget aligned to business priorities
Qualifications for lead user experience designer
- Exceptional problem solving and communication skills that demonstrate you know how to 1) understand user needs, 2) translate those needs into modern and intuitive experiences, and 3) justify design choices and adjust decisions based on feedback
- Ability to work independently and manage your own priorities
- Experience designing for enterprise SaaS, accessibility, mobile apps, and analytics/big data visualization is a plus
- Scale digital experiences and applications
- On environment by producing design artifacts directly, when required to maintain a balance to help mentor and oversee team engagements
- Scale digital experiences that meet business objectives and managing a creative team
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Lead User Experience Designer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a lead user experience designer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for lead user experience designer
- Creates innovative visual design, layouts, iconography and interactive solutions to ensure that all projects are consistent with the corporate brand and identity
- Provide detailed design and layout specifications for responsive UI design
- Understand and design complex functional specifications
- Responsible for production design and asset management for each project assigned
- Work closely with software developers, interaction designers, usability specialists, and product managers
- Deliver all design solutions on time, with a high focus on detail
- Deliver functional/behavioural wireframe specifications, flows, mock-ups and supporting ad-hoc documentation for new platform wide features
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Visual Designers and Developers within an agile development environment
- Contribute positively to the overall product vision
- Design client consistent client testing methodologies and scripts for use by research teams
Qualifications for lead user experience designer
- End Frameworks, including Foundation, Bootstrap, or Bourbon and Bourbon Neat, Version Control, including GitHub, or content management systems, including WordPress or Drupal
- Minimum of 5 years of UX/UI architecture experience
- Minimum of 2 years of enterprise UX
- Demonstrable ability to understand complex business and technical requirements
- Experience in web and mobile (iOS and Android) applications
- Proficiency in Creative Suites, Sketch, and InVision
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Lead User Experience Designer Job Description
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Our company is looking for a lead user experience designer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead user experience designer
- Work collaboratively across global teams to achieve success
- Establish best demonstrated practices for designing user journeys and testing them in the market
- Help to create new applications and enhance existing applications
- Oversees the design quality of UI code (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript)
- As a Design Lead, this role is responsible for team management, resource allocation and overall design quality for their team and the Online Account Opening service
- Create UI requirements based on product requirements, UI guidelines, user research, functional requirements, business goals, and company-wide strategic objectives
- Tasked with creating new conceptual screens and visual assets using guidelines and design patterns
- Participate in rapid design exploration and presentation of future product concepts, present ideas and designs in tangible forms (e.g., sketches, graphic mockups, prototypes)
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented accurately and integrate with existing frameworks
- Collaborate with product managers, business analysts, and development teams to define user goals and requirements for your product
Qualifications for lead user experience designer
- Be able to create rapid iterations of visual and/or storyboard concepts, the ability to design for dynamic content
- Communicate complex ideas clearly to a variety of audiences, with varying degrees of technical sophistication
- Prior experience in supervising and coaching external agencies and contractor in support of UX/UI objectives is preferred.Engineering (IT)
- A master’s or bachelor’s degree in Design / HCI or equivalent work experience
- Understand W3C standards browser-specific bugs and variations, in IE, Mozilla and Safari
- Deep experience of doing ‘hands-on’ user experience design working on multiple, large scale projects across a wide range of platforms and devices – for example, desktop applications, mobile apps (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry), desktop web and responsive web