What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX Designer position at Ansys?
Summary / Role Purpose
The User Experience Designer creates easy and delightful experiences for users of Ansys products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an introductory role, intended to expose the UX professional to many aspects of their UX careers.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
The User Experience Designer creates easy and delightful experiences for users of Ansys products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an introductory role, intended to expose the UX professional to many aspects of their UX careers.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
- Designs, develops, and evaluates components of cutting-edge user interfaces
- Creates, evaluates, and modifies prototypes to support evolving software application development
- Assists and independently analyzes findings of usability studies and user research to create reports based on findings
- Creates iconography and other in-application widgets with behaviors
- Surveys competition for key-takeaways and critical functionality
- Works under the close supervision
- BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, or Industrial Design
- Experience with Design tools such as Figma, Adobe tools such as Photoshop / Illustrator
- Experience with Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) in any form
- Particular Experience with:
- Modeling and simulation applications: SpaceClaim, Creo, Solidworks, Fusion360 / Inventor, or Rhino, and any ANSYS products
- UX design and collaboration tools: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, AfterEffects, MS Excel, Powerpoint and Word
- Tools & technologies for UI implementation: Visual Studio, WPF, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Ability to:
- Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design
- Organize deliverables for future reflection and current investigations
- Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc.
- Learn new tools for rapid prototyping