Senior UI/UX Designer- UI Focused / Travel / Loyalty

Senior UI/UX Designer

(UI 80% / UX 20%)

An innovative customer strategy and solutions business for a host of global retail, travel and financial services brands are looking for a UI/UX designer to join the team!

In this exciting role, you will be leading the design and build of prototypes for responsive, white label websites working closely with the product innovation teams.

Working in Sketch, Invision and Zapier you will also be developing the clients core UX/UI approach and applying it for individual well-known brands. You will work within a small, friendly internal design studio of nine including graphics, digital and creative designers and report into the Studio Manager, where you will help define, shape and deliver upon the UX/UI requirements of internal product projects and briefs.

Key Responsibilities:

Development –

• Consulting and advising the product team on UI/UX best practices
• Making design recommendations based on various types of analysis, such as A/B testing, user recordings etc
• Lead the concept creation and responsive design of new product and proposition websites
• Create wireframes, prototypes, widgets and identities in line with product and content requirements
• Understand key features and benefits of new product and propositions and work closely with product owners to translates this into visual representation across new and existing websites
• Responsible for organizing content for client websites according to brand guidelines
• Collaborate with the product owners and development teams to create designs in response to product, client and partner briefs
• Construct pages that are standard compliant universally accessible and are cross-browser compatible
• Ensure adherence to third party brand guidelines, demonstrating an understanding and attention to detail from specified requirements
• Understand and challenge the creative briefs in order to deliver designs and assets that meet objectives, expectations and quality standards

Identity –

• Lead and guide in the creation of a consistent standard for product identities
• Maintain an audit of all product identities and ensure all identities are updated in line with Group branding

Customer Journeys / Infographics / Illustrations –

• Understand product propositions and customers journeys and be able to represent as an infographic / illustration to make propositions more easily understood
• Collaborate with project teams to create interfaces based on user feedback and best practices
• Design and develop rich user interfaces with consistent user experiences and patterns
• Articulate your considerations and present your thinking aligned to concepts and designs
• Collaborate with peers, product owners, project manages to amend work based on feedback

Additionally –

• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope working in conjunction with the Head of Studio to manage against requirements and timelines
• Contribute to post-project analysis to ensure continuous improvement of the effectiveness of website design, making recommendations based on new trends and technology
• Build strong and trusted relationships internally and with key stakeholders
• Serve as a senior resource to inspire and mentor the junior designers

Essential Knowledge:

• In-depth understanding of Sketch, Invision, Zapier, Adobe Creative Cloud Tools and services including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator Creative Cloud
• Experience of creating concept designs / wireframes / prototype mock up and user journeys
• Excellent working knowledge of cross-browser and cross platform user interface development
• Knowledge of UX/UI trends in both desktop and mobile applications
• Understanding of the Agile development process
• In-depth understanding of the full cycle of product design and development
• Understanding of current web trends and techniques and comprehensive understanding of responsive design, for desktop, mobile and tablet devices
• Understanding of mobile assets (Apps) IOS / Android and ability to create if required

To be considered for this awesome role, please click apply or get in touch with me at

acummings@welovesalt.com

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