UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client that is seeking a UI/UX Designer in Naperville, IL. Summary: Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively. Essential Functions:

• Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns
• Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs
• Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams
• Keep up with evolving design trends, technologies, and best practices
• Contribute visual styles to Company's design system; Maintain and update our pattern library, living style guide and sketch component library
• Conduct user and competitive research
• Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements
• Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs
• Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use
• Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams
• Stay current with UX, visual design, and front-end technologies
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design (Graphic, Interaction, Visual, and Digital), Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Marketing, or related UX field
• 5+ years of UI Design for web, mobile, and application design and/or UX strategy
• Strong technical proficiency with design tools such as InVision, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite
• Portfolio of work is required
• Scrum and Kanban experience a plus
  
  

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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