RQ- UX Designer - Senior

RQ11362 - UX Designer - Senior

Location:

ONSITE, Toronto option 2:
St.Catharines

87 Sir William Hearst Ave / 400 University Ave / 301 St Paul St, St. Catharines, ON L2R 3M8

Duration: 7 + Months (168 Business Days) + Possible extension of 134 days

Must have

• 10+ years of experience
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Experience in facilitate User Research and Usability testing. Accessibility compliance testing is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client projects (products) are progressing according to schedule
• Expertise in UX software such as Just In Mind , InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), are a plus.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.

Sr. UX DELIVERABLES

General

There are four (4) distinct delivery phases in which user experience designers (task based I&IT consultants) produce deliverables following Ontario Digital Service Design playbook, which outlines the standard process for user experience design.

Delivery Phase
1) Discovery:

Before building a solution, a project team needs to find out whether users need it and whether other solutions exist. The UX Designer's responsibilities during this phase are to build an understanding of the problem space/statement, the long and short-term business goals, and the user and business needs.

Deliverables:

Facilitate the Kick-off meeting with the project team to produce such outputs as:

• Business Model Canvas
• 5 Whys
• User Personas
• Stakeholder Mapping
• Strategy Map
• Short- and Long-Term Goals
• Fears and Challenges
• Problem Statement

Facilitate user research activities to produce such outputs as:

• User interview topic Maps, a summary of interrelated topics for the user interview
• User Interview Scripts to plan and guide user discussion
• User Interview Synthesis (collection, aggregation and analysis) of written observations recorded during each interview
• User research findings report

Inception (Science Fair Day):

• Showcases the work and key findings from this stage to stakeholders outside of the core project team
• Aligns entire team (business, technical) on what the next steps will be
• Planning activities for next phase (Alpha)

Other deliverables typically delivered in this phase include:

• User Storyboard to communicate a story through images displayed in a sequence of panels that chronologically maps the story's main events.
• Technical Service Blueprint, a diagram that displays the entire process of service delivery including support systems by listing all the activities that happen at each stage, performed by the different roles involved
• Defined business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Delivery Phase
2) Alpha:

Alpha is about testing hypotheses and experimentation. The purpose of Alpha is to determine how to meet the user needs that were identified in discovery. This phase is an opportunity to quickly test different approaches with users before building a service.

Deliverables:

Delivery Phase
3) Beta:

The goal of Beta is to build a real service that works well for…