UI UX (Product) Designer 311 Data, Hack For LA

Volunteer Job Responsibilities:

• Minimum 6 hour a week commitment
• Uncover insights and discover areas of opportunity through qualitative and quantitative data, analytics, trends, UX best practices, and competitive analysis and translate these insights in to intuitive user experiences
• Create thoughtful and impactful product concepts, wireframes, flows, information architecture, prototypes, and UI pattern
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Develop testing strategy to answer hypotheses and incorporate a data-driven approach to pull actionable insights from those test results
• Build quantitative and qualitative user tests based on proficient knowledge in user research methodologies
• Clearly articulate your experience design decision making process to product team (Product Owner, PM, designers, & FE/BE developers), and our stakeholders (Neighborhood Council Members)
• Provide weekly updates to product team via Github
• Build internal testing & design capabilities through trainings and introducing new tools to the business
• Take risks and champion new ideas

Preferred Requirements:

• Certification or degree in Human-Computer Interaction/Design, Psychology, Design, UX or related field
• Hands-on user research role identifying UX design enhancements
• Demonstrated passion for learning, dealing with ambiguous situations, and aligning with cross-functional partners on decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience or familiarity with designing for accessibility standards
• Proven ability to make smart decisions about how and when to apply research methods based on solid understanding of their benefits and tradeoffs
• Experience working in agile environment and sprints