Graduate UX Designer
Concentra Analytics, United Kingdom

We are looking to recruit a graduate UX designer into our team. This role will be responsible for defining and designing the User Experience for one of the add-on apps for our flagship product, orgvue. You will be joining a team of in-house UX designers who all collaborate across all products and add-on apps.

You will have a broad understand of any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs.

Collaborating alongside Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers, you will be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user testing. You will have an understanding of the difference between UI and UX design and have a creative yet organised approach to tackling problems and creating solutions. You will preferably have previous history of working with design systems and an in-depth knowledge of forms.

We are a tight-knit and eclectic team who love to learn and share ideas. We offer training on request and encourage creative thinking and collaboration on projects to enhance our shared knowledge.

Requirements

• Gathering and evaluating user requirements via user interviews, in collaboration with Product Owners, Product Managers and Engineers.
• Facilitating Design Sprints to generate ideas and engage with scrum teams.
• Collaborating closely with Engineers and Designers to solve problems and align on solutions.
• Making strategic and user-experience decisions relating to the core product and accompanying apps, identifying problems, and devising elegant solutions.
• Translating ideas into wireframes, customer journeys and task flows.
• Creating wireframes, prototypes, style guides and user flows to effectively communicate interaction ideas, optimised for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Taking a user-centred design approach to rapidly test and validate designs with users.
• Interaction amp; animation design.
• Presenting user testing findings to key stakeholders.
• Iterating designs based on user and product team feedback.
• Ensuring all UI designs are consistent and up to date across all projects.
• Communicating regularly with users and internal stakeholders.
• Vocalising ideas and asking questions, taking risks, and championing new ideas.
• Maintaining the products design system via Sketch libraries and associated documentation.

• Lucid Chart
• Sketch
• InVision
• Axure

Knowledge

• An understanding of SaaS
• Preferably a background in data driven design.
• Lean UX experience, with knowledge of UX research, persona analysis, feature brainstorming, etc.
• A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability, and accessibility concerns.
• A knowledge of standard UX software such as Sketch, Axure and InVision
• Know when to use the right tool for the job from requirements gathering to wireframes, prototyping and high-fidelity designs.
• An understanding of the UX industry’s latest trends and technologies.
• Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
• An understanding of front-end technologies, any limitations and impact on design.
• A basic understanding of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and React are a plus.
• A degree in user experience, human-computer interaction, design, visual communication, or a related subject.
• Pixel-perfect attention to detail and a drive for consistency in design.
• Ability to think creatively, with strong problem-solving skills, and a portfolio of work to back this up.
• Ability to create a consistent visual language that is beautiful, recognizable, and usable across multiple formats.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Passionate about all things UX, resolving user pain points through great design, and an interest in all areas of design and innovation.
• Highly collaborative and keen to share knowledge of the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
• Ability to work effectively in a team, collaborating with key stakeholders, product owners and developers synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete well-designed applications.
• Ability to communicate ideas and resolve blockers via innovation or compromise.

• A degree in user experience, human-computer interaction, design, visual communication, or a related subject.

• Ability to think creatively, with strong

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