Lead UI/UX Consultant - Columbus, OH (Onsite Work)

The selected Consultant will be directly responsible for designing a modern intuitive UI/UX, and will have direct experience interacting with business users to create the UI/UX. They will work closely with the designated Business Users, I.T. supervisor, project managers, and development staff within an agile development environment maintaining a user-centered design approach as you tackle complex design problems and influence product strategy. Proactively identifying areas of the product that need improvement and driving those improvements into a product roadmap. The Consultant will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing user interface using Prototyping Designer tools. The new applications will implement an N-tier architecture.

Note: The resource consultant must also present or share their portfolio with samples. The resource’s experience must also be documented for review and verification.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participate in meetings with stakeholders, business users, and engineering teams to understand and project UI requirements.
• Design wireframes and interactive prototypes and user-friendly designs that support complex business processes.
• Work on various stages of the product development process from discovery to research to design user interface.
• Test and iterate various product concepts with users; conduct user research and analysis to validate the design.
• Work with project managers, developers, and business analysts to brainstorm ideas, approaches, and design solutions.
• Experience in creating ‘Design System’ Library for reusability.
• Create a seamless UI handoff process to development team.
• Ensure that user interface and experience designs follow best practices and comply with security requirements.
• Integration with Backend: Work closely with backend developers to integrate front-end components.
• Participate in backlog grooming sessions and other agile ceremonies to ensure Agile development teams have a good understanding of the proposed UI design to implement successfully.

• Verifiable experience in taking user interface requirements and using them to design graphical interfaces in applications.
• Advanced understanding of site architecture, and designing intuitive user interfaces and navigations.
• Experience developing a project within the AGILE methodology
• Experience with Front end UI - Html with Bootstrap and Fluent UI framework, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with Designer tools Figma. An ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge.
• Experience designing and delivering products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team
• Experience with ASP.NET C-Sharp (C#) language
• A demonstrable understanding of implementing secure UI design and coding practices for an ASP.NET MVC application.

Highly desired

• UI/UX Certification will be highly advantageous.