User Experience Designer

• Defining or contributing to user experience goals and applying design principles.
• Conduct user research interviews and surveys and use the information to create sitemaps customer journey
• maps wireframes interaction hierarchies taxonomies and prototypes.
• Contribute to delivering elements interactions and decisions that add value to the total user experience.
• Command of human-centered design best practices.
• Facilitating and designing for the relational aspects across every part of the experience.
• Deep understanding of IBM’s business strategies and goals.
• Command of IBM brand’s vision systems and documentation.
• Help advance experience design at IBM.
• Contribute to style guides UI toolkits and other design documents as needed.
• Work with senior design team members to establish priority fidelity and delivery of tasks.
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Speak and present to range of stakeholders.
• Ensuring quality control and outcomes

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5+ years of relevant experience in a digital design or user experience position.
• A deep understanding of user-centered design and strong analytical abilities.
• Knowledge of relevant technologies.
• Distinguishing good design from bad careless from well-conceived and crafted.
• Designing experiences across media.
• Awareness and understanding of grids typography graphic design color layout iconography imagery
• and design patterns and systems fundamental to the IBM Design brand.
• Problem solving and idea generation effectively visualizing and creating concepts into the end products.
• Collaboration with others–stakeholders technical teams partners and other designers.
• Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
• Being passionate confident empathetic positive and approachable.
• Attention-to-detail strong organizational skills and time management.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (highly proficient) Figma MS Office (.PPT) Github
• Animation and motion skills a plus
• Web standards a plus