Ui|Ux Designer

Job details
Job Type
Full-time

Full Job Description

Introduction

Thomas J. Watson said it best: “Good design is good business.” Visualization is critical to discovering data-driven insights and effectively communicating that knowledge to others. Designers at IBM work to create experiences that work together, work the same, and work for our clients. Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson, Blockchain, IoT, and Security excite you? If so, read on!

Your Role and Responsibilities

At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work. Because of designers at IBM planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe. The team you’ll be working on is part of the worldwide design organization for AI Applications. AI Applications is an organization in IBM that is responsible for AI-enabled solutions that assist our customers in making more informed and data-driven decisions about how to manage their business. We are looking for a talented designer to help our creative design team deliver great end-to-end customer experiences.

Responsibilities
• Translate actionable insights from the design research team into low and high fidelity mockups, patterns, prototypes, and development-ready specifications.
• Create high-fidelity mockups, graphics, design patterns, prototypes and demos
• Participate in conversations around common patterns, assets and efficiencies within the product space.
• Collaborate directly with your design team and developers to build out, update and modernize software product user interfaces (while using agile methodologies).
• Design business process scenarios and flows for user interfaces and demos.
• Share work in progress, along with giving and receiving critique.
• Understand business problems across our customer set to have context for deliverables.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of people (design researchers, content designers, developers, product owners, etc.) across our worldwide teams.
• Plan, lead and moderate virtual and in-person design thinking workshops

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Knowledge in solving complex user problems through user interface design, creating mockups and prototypes (low- and high- fidelity), as well as documenting interaction patterns for product UI.
• Can demonstrate experience with design tools (Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.).
• Can demonstrate design skills for creating visually compelling artifacts, icons, high fidelity mockups and other graphical elements for user interfaces
• Knowledge of design principles (typography, layout, imagery, color, creating efficiencies in visual design workflows, etc.)
• Knowledge with design tools (Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.).
• Proven communication skills and an ability to drill down to a customer's requirements
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, team-based environment.
• Portfolio of previous work must be presented

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Understand modern design thinking and design trends (including responsiveness and accessibility).
• Have an appreciation for detail — every pixel and interaction are important
• Knowledge in planning & moderating design thinking workshops