Senior UX Designer - Horizontal Digital
Full time
at Talent Pal
in
UAE
Posted on October 25, 2024
Job details
At Horizontal Digital we hold ourselves to one key belief: You're only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals, and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design, and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone. We use these values to fuel superior results:
- Lock arms: We forge relationships that make our impact 1000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.
- Show hustle: We're not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves, and find ways to execute the exceptional.
- Embrace change: From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what's next.
- Elevate empathy: We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.
- Never settle: We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.
- Build a deep level of trust with clients as the UX subject matter expert.
- Plan and facilitate research activities (both user and stakeholder) and UX design workshops with stakeholders, build design artifacts necessary to conduct concept testing/usability testing, and produce reports.
- Define key user interface behaviors through the use of experience models, personas, user journeys, storyboards, site maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, and simulations, and present to clients.
- Translate customer insights into tangible design deliverables within defined timelines.
- Think beyond boundaries to create design direction.
- Develop and maintain user interaction design guidelines as part of our clients' larger UX design system initiatives.
- Develop and/or use appropriate UX design and evaluation processes and/or efficiency and cost measurements to ensure that any design solution meets or exceeds defined needs and strategies.
- Work hand-in-hand with UX Designers and Front End Developers to craft highly engaging, slickly executed digital experiences and solutions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other internal disciplines to deliver projects and programs of work that regularly exceed our clients' high expectations.
- Bold: you understand how to be bold and innovative to push the boundaries of digital.
- Passionate: You are passionate about understanding and improving the end-to-end digital experience. Your passion and positivity about the work makes everyone around you better.
- Courageous: You aren't afraid to fail and are open to feedback.
- Curious: You have a desire to learn all the things you don't know and enjoy the research.
- Collaborative: You seek out collaboration and want to grow by being pushed each day to stretch your capabilities.
- Proficient: You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates your thoughtful approach to the entire UX process and your capabilities.
- Connected: You're plugged into the local UX community and are an active seeker of inspiration.
- Great portfolio of customer experience examples and storytelling featuring user research activities, audience definition, experience mapping, site/app mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and functional spec writing.
- Experience with responsive design and a solid understanding of accessibility.
- 8 years experience as a UX professional skilled in human-centered design; able to demonstrate expertise in both information architecture and digital interactive experience design for component-driven responsive web and mobile applications.
- Proven experience owning projects from start to finish.
- Ability to lead UX workshops with team members and clients.
- Experience with using research and data to guide your recommendations.
- Experience designing complex and/or task-based applications for content-heavy as well as transactional websites.
- Extensive hands-on experience of Figma required.
- Experience with presentation/prototyping tools like InVision, Marvel, Axure is desired.
- Proficiency with Sketch; Adobe Creative Cloud is a plus.
- Knowledge of the best practices for UX and interaction design for responsive experiences.
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