USER EXPERIENCE ARCHITECT (XA) - Industry X

A DAY IN THE LIFE.

• Workshop and design thinking sessions to help unpack the real value of the experience for the different personas.

• Working and communicating with multifunctional, Agile teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Translating broad ideas, business and functional requirements into process flows and wireframe concepts.

• Translating business requirements into users stories through defining the experience in thin-slices to support various software builds

• Rapidly iterate on how to engage users in the research and review process of a project, to ensure just in time user learning and evolution.

• Advocating on behalf of the end-user throughout ideation, discovery, research, design and development phases of a project.

• Collaborating and working alongside Client Product Owner, Team Delivery Lead, UI Designers and Software Artisans.

• Clearly presenting creative ideas to clients and stakeholders.

• Planning and conducting user research, including usability testing, interviews and/or contextual inquiries.

• Flexibly to work in collaborative team setting or solo to support various team structures

• Facilitating or participating in creative sessions.

• Comfort working with tools like MS Teams, Sketch, InVision, Axure, Miro, Mural and other prototyping and/or information architecture tools.

• Staying current with digital trends and best practices-you know, things like IoT, embedded, cloud, AI and other emerging tech.

• Maintaining composure and resilience in situations where "adaptability" is required.

• Participating in the complete product development lifecycle of digital products-beyond just web design, this also includes web and mobile apps, embedded systems and more.

• Working with a variety of web, design standards and creating artifacts, including but not limited to things like wireframes, interactive prototypes, user personas, journey maps, story maps and user stories.

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Qualifications

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

• 2 year degree in in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Ethnographic User Research, or 2 years of equivalent experience.

• Minimum 2 years At least 1 year of experience as a member of a DX, UX or design team working within a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Process portfolio examples - include this in your application please!

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