Job Description

Title: Front End Designer - Senior

Location: Edmonton, AB (Remote)

Duration: 12 Month of Contract with Possible extension

Duties:

• Creative, evidence-based front-end design solutions for digital service delivery. Solutions must be aligned with corporate design methods and standards.
• Foundational design of artifacts on a variety of platforms and fidelities, such as prototypes and wireframes, design pattern libraries and components, graphic design style guides, and fully documented build-ready design specifications.
• Plans for design research components.
• Justifiable recommendations for design decisions to ensure alignment of project teams, program areas, and senior management.
• Participation in agile project management processes and ceremonies such as sprint planning, sprint review, demos, and retrospectives.
• Usability test plans and reports evaluating the effectiveness of current and future designs.
• Analysis and recommendations on design accessibility to ensure compliance with applicable standards.

Work Experience:

• Experience as a Front-End Designer designing and enhancing services via web and other channels 2 years
• Experience developing UX artifacts, including streamlined scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, flows and interactive prototypes. 2 years
• Experience working within a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment 2 years

Nice to Have:

• Experience building and maintaining component libraries/design systems. 2 years
• Experience exploring multiple design solutions to a given problem or feature, and communicating those solutions visually through sketches, user flows, wireframes, functional prototypes, and/or high-fidelity designs, as necessary. 2 years
• Experience in production design for multiple digital devices (web, mobile, etc.) or complex enterprise applications. 2 years
• Experience using accessibility standards and principles including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 years
• Experience with current methodologies and design thinking, especially in relation to improving service experience. 2 years
• Experience with frontend design applications such as Axure, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc. 2 years
• Experience working as a Front-End Designer on a project comparable in size and complexity to the service innovation, program review, and/or digital transformation projects such as the GoA 2 years
• Experience working in a dedicated public sector central digital office (e.g. UK Government Digital Service; Ontario Digital Service; British Columbia Government Digital Experience, GoA Digital Innovation Office or its successors). 2 years

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