Your Role and ResponsibilitiesYour primary responsibilities will include:
- Defining or contributing to user experience goals and applying design principles.
- Conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and use the information to create sitemaps, customer journey
- maps, wireframes, interaction hierarchies, taxonomies, and prototypes.
- Contribute to delivering elements, interactions, and decisions that add value to the total user experience.
- Command of human-centered design best practices.
- Facilitating and designing for the relational aspects across every part of the experience.
- Deep understanding of IBM’s business strategies and goals.
- Command of IBM brand’s vision, systems, and documentation.
- Help advance experience design at IBM.
- Contribute to style guides, UI toolkits, and other design documents, as needed.
- Work with senior design team members to establish priority, fidelity and delivery of tasks.
- Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.
- Speak and present to range of stakeholders.
- Ensuring quality control and outcomes
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 3-5+ years of relevant experience in a digital design or user experience position.
- A deep understanding of user-centered design and strong analytical abilities.
- Knowledge of relevant technologies.
- Distinguishing good design from bad, careless from well-conceived and crafted.
- Designing experiences across media.
- Awareness and understanding of grids, typography, graphic design, color, layout, iconography, imagery,
- and design patterns and systems fundamental to the IBM Design brand.
- Problem solving and idea generation, effectively visualizing and creating concepts into the end products.
- Collaboration with others–stakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers.
- Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
- Being passionate, confident, empathetic, positive and approachable.
- Attention-to-detail, strong organizational skills and time management.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (highly proficient), Figma, MS Office (.PPT), Github
- Animation and motion skills a plus
- Web standards a plus