UX Designer
Blink
Posted 11 months ago
Blink is the user experience firm for the world’s leading companies. We use evidence-driven design to create products that people use, love and remember. With studios in Austin, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle, Blink brings two decades of experience to research, design, and strategy for clients such as Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, NASA, Starbucks, and USAA.
This opportunity is a part of Blink's Embedded practice which supports long-term opportunities with some of Blink’s largest client partners.
Location: Cleveland, OH (hybrid)
Duration: 6-12 months
What you'll do
- Collaborate with business partners to understand needs and define requirements for websites and software applications.
- Partner with IT to plan for new products and applications, defining design activities and helping with product strategy.
- Oversee or partner on UX research to gain strategic insights that inform design activities.
- Support UX strategy and process definition within the company.
- Act as “go to” with in-depth knowledge of user interface best practices and standards. Use research-related services, theories and methods to support your recommendations.
- Translate business and user needs into usable, visually compelling, and technically sound interactive solutions.
- Communicate concepts using a variety of methods(i.e., wireframes and prototypes).
- Act as the user-advocate during the development process, subjecting early-stage designs to usability testing or expert review, and offering implementation suggestions from a user-centered perspective.
- Develop an effective and efficient information architecture.
- Collect and analyze user behavior through in-person usability testing, remote usability testing, click-stream analytics, surveys, card sorts, field studies, etc.
- Establish and maintain UI consistency across designed systems.
- Help develop and grow UX standards.
- Utilize a flexible approach to changing priorities in an Agile work environment.
- Collaborate with product owners, designers, marketing, brand, IT and other stakeholders on the implementation and support of design solutions.
- Train and mentor other team members as applicable.
Your background
- Bachelor Degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- 3-7 years of experience designing usable interfaces for the web using a variety of methods.
- Understanding of responsive web design concepts and mobile applications.
- Portfolio demonstrating breadth and creativity and proven experience building wire frames, and developing prototypes.
- Hands-on experience working with customers to build and formulate business requirements.
- Strong background in user-centered design approach and methodology.
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Proficient in collaborative design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
- Experience working in Agile development a plus.
$100,000 - $130,000 a year
DOE
Blink is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.