UX Specialist -Product Designer; Temporary

UX Specialist
-Product Designer (Temporary) - University of Washington# Careers at UW## UX Specialist
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- ** Job Description
**** The University of Washington’s Office of Research has an outstanding opportunity for a bright, motivated UX Professional.  This position is a 1-year term appointment with opportunity to renew.*
* ** About this Opportunity
** Reporting to the Technology Project Manager, the UX Specialist-Product Designer is responsible for contributing user-centered experience research and interaction design to the Office of Research’s software portfolio. This role is involved from formative research and ideation through interaction design, user testing, and system assessment. A broad base of human-centered design skills inform the User Experience Specialist’s deep understanding of user and business needs.

This role helps to ensure system implementations are useful and usable, bringing simplicity and clarity to administration in the University‘s complex, world-leading research enterprise.

The User Experience Specialist serves as a voice of the user and an advocate for user-centered design, helping ensure that systems used throughout the research lifecycle support effective, efficient, and accessible administration of research projects.  
** Key Responsibilities
** Product & Experience Design (60%)
* Conduct user experience research (e.g. user interviews, surveys, usability testing, focus groups) in an agile product development environment to support timely, user-responsive design.
* Write clear, comprehensible UX research reports describing activities conducted, analysis, findings, and design recommendations.
* Collaborate with analysts and senior designers to leverage quantitative data (e.g. web analytics, surveys, support trends) to inform design decisions and to help define, monitor, and refine UX success measures.
* Partner with product managers and business analysts to synthesize research, analytics, and stakeholder input into clearly scoped features and user stories that reflect user needs, policy requirements, and product strategy.
* Create design artifacts to support shared understanding and decision-making (e.g. user journeys, information architectures, user flow diagrams, storyboards).
* Build or modify low and mid-fidelity prototypes to communicate new interactions and test functionality with users.
* Refine prototypes at the appropriate fidelity to effectively communicate design intent to UX colleagues, management, and technical contributors.
* Participate in demos to business stakeholders, soliciting feedback without bias, facilitating helpful and on-topic discussion, and generating actionable findings.
* Participate in generative design critique sessions with other UX staff; actively solicit and incorporate feedback to improve design recommendations; and contribute well-informed, actionable critical feedback to others’ work.
* Collaborate effectively with technical contributors, facilitating working sessions to evaluate designs against feedback about feasibility and cost-effectiveness.
* Evaluate application systems against WCAG accessibility guidelines and inclusive design best practices and present actionable recommendations for remediation.  User Experience Specialist  Specialty Areas (20%)  UX Design Specialist
* Lead interaction and visual design for assigned products, translating complex workflows, policies, and data into detailed prototypes.
* Define and maintain information architectures, navigation structures, and content hierarchies that support efficient, learnable task completion across research lifecycle activities.
* Collaborate with the Senior User Experience Designer to expand and refine the…