RQ11362 - UX Designer - Senior
Location: ONSITE, Toronto option 2: St.Catharines

87 Sir William Hearst Ave / 400 University Ave / 301 St Paul St, St. Catharines, ON L2R 3M8

Duration: 7 + Months (168 Business Days) + Possible extension of134 days

Must have

10+ years of experience

Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.

Experience in facilitate User Research and Usability testing. Accessibility compliance testing is a plus.

Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client projects (products) are progressing according to schedule

Expertise in UX software such as JustInMind, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), are a plus.

Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.

Sr. UX DELIVERABLES
General
There are four (4) distinct delivery phases in which user experience designers (task based I⁢ consultants) produce deliverables following Ontario Digital Service Design playbook, which outlines the standard process for user experience design.

Delivery Phase 1) Discovery
Before building a solution, a project team needs to find out whether users need it and whether other solutions exist. The UX Designer's responsibilities during this phase are to build an understanding of the problem space/statement, the long and short-term business goals, and the user and business needs.

Deliverables

Business Model Canvas

5 Whys

User Personas





Stakeholder Mapping

Strategy Map

Short- and Long-Term Goals

Fears and Challenges

Problem Statement

Facilitate user research activities to produce such outputs as:

User interview topic Maps, a summary of interrelated topics for the user interview

User Interview Scripts to plan and guide user discussion

User Interview Synthesis (collection, aggregation and analysis) of written observations recorded during each interview

User research findings report

Inception (Science Fair Day):

Showcases the work and key findings from this stage to stakeholders outside of the core project team

Aligns entire team (business, technical) on what the next steps will be

Planning activities for next phase (Alpha)

Other deliverables typically delivered in this phase include:

User Storyboard to communicate a story through images displayed in a sequence of panels that chronologically maps the story's main events.

Technical Service Blueprint, a diagram that displays the entire process of service delivery including support systems by listing all the activities that happen at each stage, performed by the different roles involved

Defined business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Delivery Phase 2) Alpha:
Alpha is about testing hypotheses and experimentation.



The purpose of Alpha is to determine how to meet the user needs that were identified in discovery. This phase is an opportunity to quickly test different approaches with users before building a service.

Deliverables:

Optionally conduct Google Ventures five (5) Day Design Sprint (or variation). This sprint is a five (5) day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers

Produce clickable prototypes of multiple possible solutions

Validate "clickable prototypes with users through usability testing sessions and produce research findings report

Iterate (improve) on clickable prototypes with insights garnered from research findings report

Identify and document existing processes or policies that will need to change to support the recent product or service

Produce a business proposal to justify funding for the next phase (Beta)

Define a clear vision for the solution that will be built in Beta

Create a plan and prioritized list of features to be completed in the Beta phase

Define user solution, and delivery of KPIs

Delivery Phase 3) Beta:
The goal of Beta is to build a real service that works well for a larger group of people. The prototypes that were developed and tested during Alpha are used to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for deployment in a live, user-facing environment. Executed within the context of Scrum methodology, the UX Designer performs the following Agile ceremonies: Stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Reporting, Acceptance, and Retrospective.

The designers are at the spearhead of this methodology, creating and validating user stories for the

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