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Ux/Ui Designer

Ncba

full time Nairobi Posted 1 day ago

Job Specifications** Academic:****

  • At least an undergraduate degree or its equivalent in commercial, financial or quantitative discipline.

Professional:****

  • Professional qualification in UX Design.

Desired work experience:**

  • Experience with business analysis.

  • Experience with project management delivery mechanisms and reporting e.g. Agile, Scrum, waterfall

  • Preferably a minimum of 2-3 years of relevant professional experience in highly automated environment.

  • Experience designing considered user interfaces for digital products and services

  • Extensive knowledge of Figma, Adobe XD etc

  • Deep understanding of typography, colour, layout and motion design principles

  • Bring ideas to life in industry standard tools: After Effects, Invision, Framer or Principle

  • Strong domain knowledge of different digital platforms (iOS/Android, Web)

  • Comfortable working within a fast paced, creative, and rapidly changing environment

  • Ability to meet and exceed expectations under tight timelines

  • Strong knowledge of UX methodologies is a must

  • Experience running research-based workshop sessions

UX Design    35        **

  • Design aesthetically pleasing mock-ups, flows, and high-resolution production-ready visual layouts for web and mobile

  • Participate in assessments of existing experiences/interfaces, leveraging the power of analytics tools combined with a competency in usability / design best practices

  • Support strategic experience design practice growth initiatives, which may include areas such as marketing, recruitment, and sales

  • Influencing and shaping product roadmaps and key deliverables.

Customer Discovery    35**** **       **

  • Connecting with and understanding the needs of the user through relevant questioning and discovery.

  • Participate in project discovery activities (building a story, doing competitive research, creating user personas, and helping define the overall ‘heart and soul' of the site or application to be built)

  • Working with stakeholders to gather and understand design requirements, planning work across all phases of design using a structured approach and collaborating with researchers to deliver informed design solutions that are fit for purpose.

  • Collaborating with developers on solutions and design handovers.

Customer   15****  **      **

  • Stakeholder research to understand needs and pain points working with the UX Research team

  • Understand target audiences needs and conduct user research of competitor products

  • Advocate for the user and follow user-centered design principles.

Learning and growth    15**** **       

  • Increase knowledge base, keep up with the emerging trends in UX Design field.