Purpose of the Job:
The Senior GIS UI/UX Designer responsibilities include gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements and building navigation components.
Accountabilities and Duties:
- Create information architecture diagrams, user experience workflow diagrams, wireframes, proof-of-concepts, and interactive prototypes
- Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements
- Work on the entire project lifecycle from wireframes to detailed specs across multiple UX platforms
- Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale, and the specifics of user centered design process
- Work in partnership with business stakeholders, and developers to design end-to-end experiences using participatory and iterative design techniques
- Participate in regular design reviews and other team-wide design efforts; create and contribute to a great design team culture.
- Participate in user-experience research and usability studies
- Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in the web design space
- Design highly innovative, refined web solutions from wireframes and creative briefs that are on target with the objectives
- Collaborate with projects managers, developers, writers, and interactive teams to develop groundbreaking design
- Serve as a brand steward, ensuring a consistency of site appearance via use of style guides, style sheets, and enforcement of established standards and best practices
Experience and Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor degree of Computer Science or equivalent
- Min of 3 years of experience
- Background in GIS is preferred
- Master-level skills with design software, including but not limited to Photoshop and Illustrator
- Familiarity with user interface guidelines and best practices for major platforms (iOS, Android, web)
- Understanding of the limitations and tradeoffs of using various development technologies and standards (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, etc.)
- Ability to create mockups and/or clickable high fidelity prototypes based on an existing style guide
- Proficiency in design tools (e.g. Photoshop, Fireworks, Axure, Illustrator)