Job Description

• Understand product specifications and user psychology
• Play an UX advocate role for entire organization
• Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products
• Find creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g. usability, findability)
• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
• Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, technical constraints/opportunities and usability findings
• Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flows for on-device software applications for a variety of screen sizes and interaction models
• Meeting clients and running workshops to find best solutions for their products
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Work closely with the business team to develop user scenarios, storyboards, and high-level requirements
• Analyze user interface problems and create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements
• Communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers
• Keeping abreast of competitor products and industry trends

Skills

• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking
• Passionate about resolving user pain points through great design
• Proficient in design software
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS; JavaScript is a plus
• Retail and eCommerce design experience

About the Company:

Cactus Communications is a global scientific communications company that collaborates with researchers across academic disciplines, universities, publishers, societies, and life science organizations to accelerate research impact.