Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with key product stakeholders on a regular basis to define requirements and prioritize key product features
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, visual designers and marketing to define the best possible experience for the user
• Create rapid and iterative wireframes for prototyping for a variety of ideas and concepts
• Communicate design ideas to stakeholders, developers and product owners through task flow diagrams, user journeys/scenarios, as well as low and high fidelity wireframes and mock-ups
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to appropriate teams
• Ability to work with development teams to execute best design solutions within technology constraints.
• Conduct user research and evaluate feedback
• Determine user needs by conducting user interviews with real users
• Create and run ideation workshops in support of new product explorations
• Work with Design Systems to build out UI flows
• Good understanding of component interactions, space and colour
• Facilitate usability testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products
• Evaluate the user experience design of existing design concepts as well as on-device prototypes, and communicate design enhancements
• Research interaction design trends
• Research technology trends
• Work closely with the Development and QA Teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs

Required Skills:

• Proficiency with User Experience (UX) processes
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools, with a strong emphasis on Figma.
• Interaction and User Interface Design (UI)
• Visual Design
• Solid understanding of user-centred design principles, usability, and accessibility.
• Understanding of Frontend development, a plus
• Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale for design decisions.
• An understanding of latest design trends.
• Experience working in an Agile Team (preferably SCRUM) will be advantageous.
• Proven experience as a Product Designer or UI/UX Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful projects.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.

Qualifications:

• National Senior Certificate (Matric) or NQF 4 equivalent from an accredited institution or “O” and “A” Levels –
• Professional portfolio of recent projects
• Minimum of 4 years of solid Digital Design work experience preferred