UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities

• Serve as a designer in the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) External Services Directorate, responsible for user experience and interface design
• Quickly yet thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors
• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications
• Engage with stakeholders to do evaluation of needs, goals, mission, values, and overall objectives of site
• Solicit and incorporate feedback from CIGIE/USPS OIG/IG Community subject matter and technical experts throughout the engagement
• Leverage the U.S. design standards to the greatest extent possible
• Limit custom coding to the greatest extent possible to promote efficient knowledge-transfer and cost-effective in-house maintenance
• Throughout development, when significant design choices are required, develop multiple concepts for feedback from CIGIE/USPS OIG/IG Community POCs
• Create user-centered designs for software projects by considering customer feedback
• Create the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of new web and on‐device software applications
• Develop and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
• Breakdown complex requirements and concepts into well-thought visual designs and workflows
• Participates in testing, validating own and others’ functionality
• Modernize and improve existing graphics, fonts, and other design elements, with the goal of achieving a modern looking website

Required Skills

• At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• Conceptual understanding of User Interface Design and the Design Process
• Intermediate to advanced user of Adobe Creative Suite (or other designer tools)
• Intermediate level of HTML, CSS and Bootstrap
• Basic JavaScript skills
• Understanding of Less and Sass
• Understanding of responsive design and touch interface interaction techniques and be in sync with recent design standards and trends
• Understanding of the limitations of web and mobile, with approaches/ideas to flex those boundaries
• A solid portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions across multiple interfaces and screen sizes
• Experience creating UI specs & wireframes
• Flexibility and willingness to move from idea, to whiteboard, to execution quickly and provide choices to stakeholders
• Experience in proposing and executing new interactive graphics based on existing data, with the goal of making the data already collected more accessible and interactive
• Experience in improving the “user paths” on the site, ensuring that users’ destinations can be reached in a minimum of clicks

Desired Skills

• General Description of Benefits
• Excellent communication and team-oriented skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills