Agency :
Think DesignJob Description Summary :
The UX Designer is responsible for contributing on the design process including identifying pain points, defining product, generating hero concepts, building key wireframes, and designing end-to-end User Interface closely working with design lead, designers and other multi-disciplinary teams including product manager, engineering team, and user researcher.Job Description :
The UX designer must think in non-linear terms: capturing interactions, edge-cases, and the various states of these experiences through deliverables such as user flows, product maps, wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes. They should be comfortable with an agile approach to design, with an emphasis on user testing and rapid iteration. - Cultivates a deep understanding of product UX across platforms and ensure execution with reverence for a cohesive experience. - Works closely and collaboratively with the visual designer and product manager on the team to fulfill the overall product/feature vision. - Manages bandwidth and project pipeline to execute UX design in time with team’s software roadmap. - Coordinates, executes, and documents user research. Runs user interviews, ethnographic studies, and other research methodology to understand personas and user cases around upcoming roadmapped features. - Collaboratively brainstorms and evolves feature UX with the product manager and wider team. - Creates extremely detailed user flows, product maps, wireframes, etc. based on requirements from Product Management, and communicate UX clearly to relevant teams. - Builds out multi-version comps for user testing. - Prototypes user experiences and coordinate and run tests with end users. - Quickly iterate and offer versions based on design critique from peers or from learnings found in user testing or feature response. • Capture all states, edge-cases, “unhappy paths” and path logic for visual UI design and engineering teams to build out. • Evaluate, test, and iterate on current core experiences. • Work with Product Management, Engineering, and Visual UI Design to ensure executed work matches UX vision.Skills :
Contract Type :
PermanentHere at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.
Due to high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.
Skills Required
- Create detailed user flows, product maps, wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes
- Conduct and document user research including interviews and ethnographic studies
- Plan and run user testing and iterate designs based on findings
- Capture edge cases, unhappy paths, and interaction states for handoff to visual designers and engineers
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineering teams, and visual designers
- Manage design bandwidth and project pipeline to align with software roadmap
- Comfortable with agile design processes and rapid iteration
- Produce multi-version comps for user testing and design critique
What We Do
Fearless. Fast. Smart. Focused. We are on a relentless quest to be Chicago's most creative company by reinvigorating iconic American brands through cultural relevance. We are passionate makers, digital disruptors, artists who don't color inside the lines. We work smarter. Push harder. Break things. Make things. And we're always looking forward.
Why Work With Us
Our agency gets out of bed in the morning to undertake what we call 'meaningful disruption' in an industry that is in need of serious transformation. We are not looking for the same, boring solutions that are chock-full of brand and marketing rhetoric but seek people that want to change the advertising game.
