UX Designer

UX Engineer/Designer

Location: Sandton

Salary R60 000CTC

A UX engineer is usually a front-end engineer who works on a design team, facilitating collaboration between engineering and design. UX engineers bring together technical know-how and design aesthetics.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall responsibility for understanding a customer''s brief and converting that into appealing, highly usable interfaces.
• Engages with the business development team and/or customer early on to seek a deeper appreciation of the customers’ business problem/goals.
• Develops understanding of the end-users of the website/application through secondary and primary research (user interviews, traffic data).
• Capable of generating user personas and user scenarios.
• Prepares low fidelity prototypes of sites/features (ranging from paper-and-pencil concepts to wireframes or interactive prototypes) for internal review and brainstorming.
• Capable of gauging the technical feasibility of the prototype.
• Presents high fidelity designs/mock-ups to the customer for review/iteration/approval.
• Capable of working directly with customers in an iterative/agile manner to dramatically improve the prototypes in a short time
• Able to explain his/her design philosophy verbally and in writing

Minimum requirements:

IT Design Certification Essential

Java programming certification Advantage

Work Experience:

5 to 10 years

• Finance/banking or large ecommerce solutions
• On-line transactional systems
• Business automation and workflow
• Wireframes

Skills or Knowledge

• Strong wireframing skills
• Excellent visual design skills and abilities
• Knowledge of new tools and trends in the industry
• Strong analytical skills
• UX research and design with a focus on user experience and flow – not graphic design
• Solid understanding of process flows, menu structures, usability, frictionless workflows, CI maintenance, and adherence.
• Usability, accessibility, customer journeys, prototypes.
• UI Skills