Entry Level User Experience Researcher Jobs in Ontario

Responsibilities:

• Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces.
  
• Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
  
• Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
  
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
  
• Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes
  

General Skills:

• Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance
  
• Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications
  
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools
  
• Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies
  
• Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience
  
• Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
  
• Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing
  
• Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  
• Experience facilitating the client's product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  
• Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
  
• Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
  
• Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback 
  
• The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures
  
• Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes 
  
• Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must 
  
• Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset 
  
• Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders 
  

Skill Set Requirements:

User Experience / Product Design:

• Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback 
  
• The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures 
  
• Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes 
  
• Demonstrated experience creating deliverables such as design blueprints, information architecture, presentations and reports. 
  
• A solid understanding of generative and evaluative user research methods and how user research can be incorporated continuously in the digital product lifecycle 
  
• Hands-on experience creating user research plans, recruiting participants, facilitating user research, analyzing findings and delivering insights 
  
• Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps. 
  
• Experience researching and applying industry best practices to support your design deliverables 
  
• The ability to incorporate web analytics, visitor feedback, performance metrics and other data to inform design decisions 
  
• Practice providing rationale for design decisions in group settings with multiple stakeholders 
  
• Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must 
  
• Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset 
  

Communications:

• Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders 
  
• Ability to collaborate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design 
  
• Strong facilitation skills leading design discussions and negotiations 
  

Agile Product Development:

• Experience working in an agile product teams 
  
• Demonstrated willingness to iterate work output based on feedback 
  
• Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries 
  

Design Portfolio:

• Candidate to include the link to their portfolio of work