UI/UX Designer

Company Description

Better Future Solutions, Inc. specializes in increasing the profitability and business success of mid-sized companies and Fortune 500 organizations by automating and integrating mission-critical areas of their businesses. Our expertise includes Workforce Solutions, ERP, SPI, Training, and BPM. With a focus on Workforce Management, Application Development, IT outsourcing, Systems Integration, and testing, we aim to deliver high-quality services worldwide.

Role Description

UX / UI Designer

Experience:5+years

Location: Hyderabad, Bangalore

Position Summary

We are looking for talented UX/UI designers to create amazing user experiences with our team. The ideal candidate should demonstrate the ability to work with internal and external stakeholders to discover efficient and effective workflows, generate clean and artful design elements, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.

 Designers are customer focused and incorporate the user’s needs and preferences at the forefront of the design process, conducting user and market research to create engaging and intuitive experiences to enhance the overall user experience.

Key Areas of Responsibility

•    Lead UX projects and drive UX strategy

•    Uphold XD process and collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience

•    Execute all visual design stages from concept to engineering design reviews

•    Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks

•    Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and process flows to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas

•    Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders

•    Participate in user research and evaluate user feedback

•    Contribute to and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

Product Strategy, Vision, and Planning

•    Works with the Senior Designer to develop engaging and strategic design-based ideas to present to share with the Product Manager and inform the overall product roadmap

•    Leverages design ideas at the product level to collaborate with the Product Owner to define product features and stories that align with the product vision

Customer Experience Research, Insights, and Execution

•    Performs competitive analysis of direct / indirect competitors and monitors the market for new trends to inform the research and design process

•    Conducts in depth customer / user research to capture, interpret, and use quantitative and qualitative insights to inform design decisions and check that end user needs are met

•    Collects, analyzes, monitors, and reports on user feedback to identify key trends and opportunities Partners with enabling functions (e.g., marketing, sales, operations, etc.) to communicate new experience features and identify opportunities for optimization or improvements

Product Design and Development

•    Creates user journey maps and personas to understand the end user and their needs to inform designs for the product experience

•    Designs how users interact with the part of the product the team owns, including the layout, placement of elements, and overall flow

•    Develops wireframes and interactive prototypes to visualize and test user interfaces and interaction designs

•    Conducts usability testing and gathers customer feedback to iterate and improve product feature level designs as part of releases

•    Conducts design within the agile environment and champions the integration of design across the entire product development lifecycle; maintains consistency and adherence to design standards

Basic Qualifications

•    BS/MS in Visual Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or related

•    Proven UX/UI experience for multiple platforms including desktop, mobile, tablet

•    Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction

•    5+ years of proven UX/UI experience for multiple platforms including desktop, mobile, tablet

•    Demonstrable UX/UI design skills with a strong portfolio

•    Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and process flows

•    Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders

•    Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, InVision, Axure, or other visual design and wire-framing tools

•    Understanding of motion design for informing interactive experiences

•    Demonstrate understanding of Design Thinking activities

•    Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively

•    Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies

•    General understanding of the front-end development process, including HTML and CSS.

•    Ability to speak fluent English is a must. We have product teams in various locations and clear communication of design decision making is key.