UI/UX Design Developer (Onsite - Columbus, OH)

We are looking for an experienced UI/UX Design Developer to work with the State of Ohio.

Consultant will be directly responsible for designing a modern intuitive UI/UX, and will have direct experience interacting with business users to create the UI/UX.

They will work closely with the designated Business Users, I.T. supervisor, project managers, and development staff within an agile development environment maintaining a user-centered design approach as you tackle complex design problems and influence product strategy.

Proactively identifying areas of the product that need improvement and driving those improvements into a product roadmap.

The Consultant, in working with ODPS staff, will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing user interface using Prototyping Designer tools. The new applications will implement an N-tier architecture and comply with ODPS coding standards.

During the interview process with the ODPS staff, the resource consultant must demonstrate competence/experience in their specific area(s) of project assignment. The resource consultant must also present or share their portfolio with samples. The resource s experience must also be documented for review and verification. Offered resources not showing technical or functional competence/experience will be sufficient reason to reject the Offeror s proposal. It is the responsibility of the Offeror to pre-screen their candidates to ensure compliance. Resource will have a background check conducted by ODPS.

• Participate in meetings with stakeholders, business users, and engineering teams to understand and project UI requirements.
• Design wireframes and interactive prototypes and user-friendly designs that support complex business processes.
• Work on various stages of the product development process from discovery to research to design user interface.
• Test and iterate various product concepts with users; conduct user research and analysis to validate the design.
• Work with project managers, developers, and business analysts to brainstorm ideas, approaches, and design solutions.
• Experience in creating Design System Library for reusability.
• Create a seamless UI handoff process to development team.
• Ensure that user interface and experience designs follow best practices and comply with security requirements.
• Integration with Backend: Work closely with backend developers to integrate front-end components.
• Participate in backlog grooming sessions and other agile ceremonies to ensure Agile development teams have a good understanding of the proposed UI design to implement successfully.
• Strong communication/ leadership skills.
• Strong influence, collaboration, and negotiation experience.
• Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
• Ability to communicate ideas to a wide variety of stakeholders, lead discussions and creative activities, and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
• Ability to lead and manage large design initiatives, including managing competing priorities with product and engineering peers.
• Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.
• Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.
• Have strong understanding of prioritization stemming from the elicitation of system and/or user requirements.
• Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Must be knowledgeable in the English language/speak clearly and understandably use the English language.
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to technical staff.

Requirements

• Verifiable experience in taking user interface requirements and using them to design graphical interfaces in applications. - Required 8 Years
• Experience developing a project within the AGILE methodology. - Required 8 Years
• Experience with Front end UI - Html with Bootstrap and Fluent UI framework, CSS, and JavaScript. - Required 8 Years
• Advanced understanding of site architecture, and designing intuitive user interfaces and navigations. - Required 5 Years
• Experience with Designer tools Figma. An ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge. - Required 5 Years
• Experience designing and delivering products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team. - Required 5 Years
• Experience with ASP.NET C Sharp (C#) language. - Required 5 Years
• A demonstrable understanding of implementing secure UI design and coding practices for an ASP.NET MVC application. - Required

Desired Skills

• UI/UX Certification will be highly advantageous. - Highly desired
• Verifiable experience with applications designed and developed in ASP.NET Core MVC applications. - Highly desired
• Expert level experience of building out conversational workflow diagrams. (Similar to flow diagrams). Articulate/document detailed User Journey Maps - Highly desired

Onsite position in Columbus, OH. Must live in Ohio.

Salary : $60 - $65