UX Design Job Description
UX design
provides assets, specifications, and guidance for designers and developers, using tools like Sketch, Figma, and Zeplin.
UX Design Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective UX design job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included UX design job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Research and make recommendations for new topics and content based on trends within the competitive landscape
UX design of content assets for eCommerce sites (Tesco, Amazon, thebar.com etc) across Western Europe
Create strategy and work plans, and manage issues
Work well with people of all personality types in a dynamic environment
Leading the UX and creative efforts for new v1 products
Work with other UXDs, collaborating on design tasks that incorporate best practices in a variety of different UX Design disciplines
Use the design artifacts in suitable fidelities to communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors
Communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
Scope the task, manage time and priorities effectively
A curiosity and passion for design and crafting amazing experiences
UX Design Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for UX Design
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: UX, PMP, CAPM, UI, LUMA, CPACC, IAAP, BA, BS
Education for UX Design
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the UX design job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Computer Science, Computer, Graphic Design, Psychology, Industrial Design, Graduate, Engineering
Skills for UX Design
Desired skills for UX design include:
Usability principles and techniques
Audits and competitive landscaping
Axure
Project scope estimates
CSS
HTML
Sketch
Invision
Figma
Desired experience for UX design includes:
Positive yet practical
Must be pursuing an MA or PhD in design (interaction design or similar)
Minimum of 6 months of experience with interaction design across a number of platforms
Minimum of 6 months of experience in interaction design, visual design, and design process
Minimum of 6 months of experience in Adobe CS and other relevant software packages, including After Effects
Experience with hardware/software prototyping
UX Design Examples
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UX Design Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an UX design. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UX design
- Support product management and product development teams in defining user journeys, business, and technical requirements
- Research, define and capture user and functional requirements
- Create and maintain UX design documentation repositories
- In close collaboration with the UX designers, annotate design deliverables in order to bring more clarity
- Facilitate design review sessions and elicit feedback on the user experience design deliverables from product and technical teams
- Support UX design activities by eliciting business and technical requirement clarifications
- Participate as a team member in design validation sessions
- Teach 2 hours per evening, 2 days a week, for 10 weeks
- Participate in the full lifecycle of product development
- Educate and inspire team members by communicating a vision for the project involving people at the optimal levels for project success
Qualifications for UX design
- Familiarity with software development in an agile environment
- Experience in user research and usability testing a plus
- Experience in developing A/B testing and campaign optimization a plus
- Broader visual design experience a plus
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant creative discipline
- Must be a strong collaborator across diverse groups and a creative team builder
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an UX design. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UX design
- Actively participating in regular design reviews, scrums and workshops and other design thinking/agile practices
- Producing design artifacts such as journey maps, empathy maps, story boards, scenarios, wireframes, lo and hi fidelity designs
- Creating easy to use, accessible interaction designs for Watson Workspace outcomes
- Clearly communicating designs to cross functional teams, working directly with your design peers, product management and development
- Supporting design decisions with user research and best practices
- Validating working hypothesis with users through usability testing of prototypes
- Work with cross-functional teams to find and schedule user research interviews
- Observe and participate in user research
- Transcribe research findings for the design and development teams to evaluate
- Participate in design sprints side by side with UX designers and Front-end developers
Qualifications for UX design
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design or similar degree)
- 10+ years experience software design with significant experience in SaaS/cloud products and mobile applications
- 5+ years in a creative leadership position and a demonstrated ability to deliver products with elegant interaction and visual design
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite to create visual assets
- Experience creating prototypes and mockups
- Ability to prioritize, multitask, and take the initiative to solve problems
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of UX design. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UX design
- Help teams create/start a microinteractions/animations library, which can involve research, coding, designing, testing
- Lead a team of interaction and visual designers
- A curiosity and never stopping learning
- An ability to be meticulous with details and see the bigger picture at the same time
- An ability to work independently collaboratively in a team in an agile development environment
- Develop, implement and manage project plans for select high priority projects
- Recruit, manage, train and evaluate the performance of the UX team personnel
- Engage directly with cross-functional product delivery teams to ensure UX design vision is preserved throughout implementation and delivery
- Lead the user experience design and research discipline including building a strong team of design professionals continually improving UX capabilities, tools, processes, and best practice
- Evangelize the UX design process throughout the organization
Qualifications for UX design
- Up to date
- Fluency in best practices for mobile information architecture and design, strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Lead the end-to-end UX design process by creating key design deliverables appropriate for each app
- Fluency in best practices for mobile and web-based information architecture and responsive design, deep and broad knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Demonstrated fluency in best practices for high-volume user experiences and responsive design, deep and broad knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- A minimum of ½–2 years of industry experience in UX Design or an applicable creative discipline
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Our growing company is looking for an UX design. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for UX design
- Prepare wireframes and mock ups
- Research and integrate latest trends into project conception
- Participate in ideation sessions for products and overall experience design
- Competitive analysis on ad tech toolsets focused on dynamic advertising creative
- Design custom website design solutions outside of 3rd party templates
- Provide regular progress reports for ongoing web/interactive design projects
- Periodically review websites and other interactive properties and recommends updates of content and design
- Stay current with regard to web design trends, tools and practices
- Understand and create technical documentation, annotated documentation, user flows, experience mapping, and data trends
- Designing intuitive wireframes, workflows, and prototypes for any variety of projects across our product suite
Qualifications for UX design
- Samples of work or an online portfolio demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions
- An understanding of how design impacts business and vice versa
- Ability to construct designs that are technically feasible
- Convincing communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Front end engineering expertise
- Expertise in design declines such as data visualization, motion design, and
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of UX design. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UX design
- Develops and designs digital interactive formats, including but not limited to websites and mobile applications
- Tests wireframes and visuals of web pages for optimization and makes changes to architecture and visuals as needed
- Interacts and collaborates with other members of the creative team, including working with external partners
- Translate ideas and concepts into a coherent and engaging design that meets the user and business needs
- Ensure that the product is delivered on time and with a consistent, user-driven design
- Managing a team of highly talented designers, responsible for delivering our product with the highest quality to customers
- Be a technical lead, including responsibility for mentoring your team
- Work closely with the management and development team to provide product delivery on time and in high quality
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps
- Deliver user-centric ideas and bring them to life
Qualifications for UX design
- 2-4++ years designing and prototyping with a user experience team
- A portfolio of well-designed, user-centered projects
- Experience in user experience design and research
- Experience designing software UI
- Experience designing mobile apps and / or responsive websites
- Currently pursuing a degree (bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral) in design