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Senior User Experience Designer- Chicago, Direct, 5854

Description
Sr. UE Designers are responsible for working with clients to develop meaningful interactive experiences. This role requires strategic thinking, UE team leadership, and acute communication with all members of the project team. Your past experience with activities and deliverables associated with user centered design allows you to add value to consumer, transactional and corporate web initiatives. Conducting user, stakeholder and competitive research will drive personas and scenarios that will result in conceptual concepts, annotated wireframes, interactive models, prototypes and functional specifications. You will be exposed to web 2.0 paradigms and methodologies that will transform linear UE thinking into a multidimensional experience.

Responsibilities
Plan, coordinate and conduct user research, contextual and ethnographic studies, participatory design and usability testing
Conceptualize and design user interfaces and information architecture using participatory design Produce personas, scenarios, process flows, annotated wireframes, design prototypes, and functional design specifications for complex transactional web applications and portals
Produce scalable taxonomies and metadata tagging for enterprise content management systems
Effectively aggregate and communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually
Shepherd the design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules
Conduct usability testing and incorporate recommendations into the design
Work closely with development teams to QA development and implementation
Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other user experience designers, project managers, business strategists, and technical leadership Required Experience
At least five years of user interface design experience
Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to web-based applications
Excellent communication and organization skills - must be able to function as a thought leader as well as an individual contributor
Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Visio, InDesign, and Dreamweaver
Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web technologies such as CMS, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS

Nice to Have
Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or behavioral science discipline
Experience with web 2.0 and rich internet concepts and delivery methodologies

If qualified and interested in this position, please call 312.424.0300 and reference job#5854

Labels: PM-Manager