Product Designer
| Location | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Date Posted | May 22, 2021 |
| Category |
Graphic Design
|
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | ZAR |
Description
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with key product stakeholders on regular basis to define requirements and prioritize key product features.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, visual designers and marketing to define the best possible experience for the user.
- Communicate design ideas to stakeholders, developers and product owners through task flow diagrams, user journeys/scenarios, as well as low and high fidelity wireframes and mockups.
- Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to appropriate teams.
- Ability to work with development teams to execute best design solutions within technology constraints.
- Work closely with Visual Designers to ensure adherence to design guidelines and best practices across all platforms.
- Work closely with the Development and QA Teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
- Conduct user research and evaluate feedback.
- Determine user needs by conducting user interviews with real users.
- Create and run ideation workshops in support of new product explorations.
- Create rapid and iterative wireframes for prototyping for a variety of ideas and concepts.
- Facilitate usability testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
- Evaluate the user experience design of existing design concepts as well as on-device prototypes, and communicate design enhancements.
- Research interaction design trends.
- Research technology trends.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Proficiency with User Experience (UX) processes.
- Interaction and User Interface Design (UI)
- Visual Design
- User Research and User Testing
- Understanding of Frontend development, a plus
- Decision making
- Understanding of digital platform usability principles with a portfolio of projects to demonstrate it.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale for design decisions.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- An understanding of latest design trends.
- Experience working in an Agile Team (preferably SCRUM) will be advantageous.
QUALIFICATIONS
- High School Diploma required.
- Professional portfolio of recent projects.
- Minimum of 2 year of solid Digital Design work experience preferred.