Senior designer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Overview :

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a health insurance company. It offers different types of health care coverage plans that include individual and family, dental and vision, plans for employers, etc.

Title : UX Designer Senior

Work Location : Detroit, MI, 48226

Duration : 6+ Months

Job Type : Contract

Work Type : Onsite

Dept : Transparency

Engagement Description :

User experience is part strategy, part research, part design.

The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end-user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives.

The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers.

The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end-users using human-centered design principles and best practices.

Top 3 Required Skills / Experience The most important must-have skills. Include :

Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following :

User research

Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design

Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products

UX design

Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred), Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch or Adobe XD.

Demonstrate using human-centered design principles and best practices.

Required Skills / Experience The rest of the required skills / experience.

Include :

Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success

Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes in order to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.

Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)

Plans, sets up and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements

Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer's touchpoints with a product

Research current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction

Structure, organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users

Iterates on designs based on user feedback

Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building

Preferred Skills / Experience Optional but preferred skills / experience. Include :

Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.

Experience creating and aligning to a design systems Building style guides, pattern libraries, and design toolkits to codify a product's design language.

Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data / service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.

Experience leading a project and / or team. Strong leadership skills.

Education / Certifications Include :

Bachelor's degree in related field required

Master's degree in related field preferred

Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.