User Research, Skill Development, Research Technology, Product Service, Wireframing, A/B Testing, Usability Testing, User Interviews, Concept Development, User Interface Design
Job description
Company Description
IQbusiness South Africa is the leading independent management consulting firm, headquartered in South Africa, committed to helping African businesses thrive in a hyper-speed digital environment. As a certified level 1 B-BBEE contributor, we ensure that we serve the unique needs of the continent.
Role Description
This is a full-time Product/UX/UI designer role located in Gauteng, South Africa. As a Product/UX/UI designer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop and maintain products that optimize user experiences, interface designs, and overall product functionality.
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with key product stakeholders on a 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
- Create rapid and iterative wireframes for prototyping for a variety of ideas and concepts
- 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 mock-ups
- 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.
- 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
- Work with Design Systems to build out UI flows
- Good understanding of component interactions, space and colour
- 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
- Work closely with the Development and QA Teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs
- Proficiency with User Experience (UX) processes
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools, with a strong emphasis on Figma.
- Interaction and User Interface Design (UI)
- Visual Design
- Solid understanding of user-centred design principles, usability, and accessibility.
- Understanding of Frontend development, a plus
- Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale for design decisions.
- An understanding of latest design trends.
- Experience working in an Agile Team (preferably SCRUM) will be advantageous.
- Proven experience as a Product Designer or UI/UX Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful projects.
- High School Diploma required
- Professional portfolio of recent projects
- Minimum of 4 years of solid Digital Design work experience preferred
