Role: UX/UI Designer

Location: Kalispell, MT 59901 (Hybrid)

Duration: Long-term Contract

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, wireframing, prototyping and mocking up user experiences for our digital properties.
• Design, code the markup, conduct user testing, and perform other user-facing activities to validate the design, and interaction.
• Develop mobile and cross-browser compatible responsive front-end interfaces.
• Contribute to design, technical, and functional documentation such as detailed architectural and design documents as requested.
• Create high quality UX deliverables which deliver on product outcomes.
• Produce materials for customers and developers, including user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, live style guides, and assets.
• Create robust user experiences, including defining customer needs, task analysis, persona creation, storyboarding, user flow creation, and wireframing.
• Leverage analytics and usage metrics to inform UI/UX decisions, including usability testing, customer interviewing, and other forms of qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Improve and maintain style guides and quality libraries to support all products.
• Design high-quality responsive user experiences and user interfaces.
• Clearly communicate your design solutions to team members and internal customers.
• Provide leading-edge design solutions.
• Provide design support for internal and external websites.
• Contribute to and promote on-going enhancement of the UX design methodologies.
• Transform conceptual ideas and user requirements and turn them into highly usable designs.
• Participate in project/sprint planning meetings and evaluate project activities for compliance with design/development guidelines and UX/UI Standards.
• Collaborate with project management, developers, ComEd, and other teams to validate design solutions, participate in sprint cycles and bring team vision to life,
• Work with internal stakeholders to perform user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate internally to continue to improve process and meet project goals.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Conduct user research and analyze user feedback against design requirements.
• Prepare documentation of all UIs developed.

Deliverables:

• UX Research Reports for ExploreMT (updated version of MyFWP and OLS)
• Personas for ExploreMT (XMT)
• Experience Maps
• Documented User Journeys
• Wireframes for XMT
• Interactive Prototype for XMT
• Styleguides that align with FWP's brand book
• ADA compliance verification