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Robert Half UI Designer in Mclean, Virginia
Description
Our client is seeking a User Interface (UI) Designer to join their digital product teams for a remote 6 month contract. A User Interface Designer will be a strong voice for design quality and consistency across multiple digital platforms. As a member of the Experience Design team, the UI Designer is expected to collaborate with digital product teams to design user interfaces and visuals for native and responsive web platforms. They will partner with engineering to handoff designs, provide specifications, and offer QA support through to launch. The UI Designer will also contribute to maintaining and evolving our design system, Fractal, by supporting and improving our internal style guide, maintaining our user interface component library, and socializing Fractal with our distributed teams.
Responsibilities:
Research:
Work with Experience Design, Research, and Experimentation teams to continually identify, test, and implement user interface patterns as an output of a user-centered design practice.
Keep a current knowledge of published interface guidelines for the platforms we support, including iOS, Android, Salesforce, and ADA standards.
Design:
Design proposed additions or features to our library of UI patterns and shared components.
Design and maintain shared visual assets like iconography and typography systems for use across platforms.
Evolve patterns, interactions, and designs with a forward-thinking outlook that is open to exploring new ideas and approaches.
Participate in design reviews with stakeholders to ensure that designs meet both business objectives and user needs.
Provide feedback and direction to UX Designers, Content Designers, Marketing Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers as they build and make decisions that impact our final digital products.
Design full-page high-fidelity comps as needed.
Strategy:
Work with UX Design and Engineering leads to coordinate the usage of existing UI patterns and shared components.
Work with UX Design and Engineering leads to understand the gaps and future needs that Fractal will need to support.
Work with all 18 brands to establish a strategy for balancing consistency across our digital platforms with their need to distinguish their individual brand identities.
Collaborate with pod team members and business stakeholders to develop a core understanding of user personas.
Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends.
Requirements
What are we looking for?
To fulfill this role successfully, you should demonstrate the following minimum qualifications:
3-6 years of experience as a user interface designer, product designer, digital designer, or similar role.
Experience with web and mobile platforms.
Experience working with design systems.
Experience with common design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
Understanding of accessibility standards.
Excellent communication, presentation, storytelling, interpersonal, and analytical skills.
BA/BS/Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience.
It would be helpful in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions:
An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions.
Experience working with remote teams.
Experience in an agile/scrum environment.
If you meet these qualifications and are excited about the opportunity to contribute to our dynamic team, we encourage you to apply for this temporary UI Designer position.
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