Freelance User Experience Designer
Skills
Attention To DetailDesign ToolsFigmaPresentationsUser ExperienceUser Experience DesignUser Interface Design
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 2+ years of UX design experience
- A strong online portfolio of work demonstrating design processes in creating user-centered design solutions
- Ambition to produce the best in class work
- Excellent verbal and written skills to be able to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Expert in Figma
- Familiarity with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign
- Aptitude to learn new design tools
- Ability to communicate with dev teams to understand technical constraints and opportunities
- Responsive design, web design experience
- Relentless attention to detail and a sharp eye for design
- A passion for all things digital
- A collaborative, open + honest, curious and human mindset
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Experience working in an flexible and fast paced environment
- Exists on the cutting edge of UX design – and pushes our user research, testing, and design infrastructure and practices
Day to day
- Define target users and problems
- Research competitive products, industry trends and topics
- Convert complex problems into simple and elegant solutions
- Gather, analyze and determine how to respond to feedback from external clients and internal directors
- Create detailed experience maps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes etc. based on briefs from client-facing teams
- Articulate intended experience through design artifacts in critiques and presentations
- Quickly iterate and offer explorations of potential solutions based on design critique from peers or from learnings found in user testing or feature response
- Defend design choices using previous user research, heuristics and usability standards
- Communicate designs and prototypes to developers with a proper handoff
- Present design ideas clearly and effectively with the proper rationale
- Proactively identify opportunities for new executions, efficiencies, and designs