UX Product Designer

Job Description

Top Three Skills:

1. User centered design

2. Usability testing techniques

3. Interaction design

Job Description:

This client, based in Mobile, Alabama, the company provides a comprehensive, single-source EMR to over 650 hospitals, backed by the industry's leading support staff. Our fully integrated system automates clinical and financial processes across all hospital departments.

Staff of more than 1,300 clinical, financial and IT experts provides everything from implementation to continuing support to consulting as part of a complete program, enabling hospitals to thrive in a challenging healthcare IT environment

Position can sit in Mobile or Jackson Mississippi

Looking for someone with a user-centered mentality for this skillset, Strong design anti-patterns tools and approaches journey mapping, persona, handle the cognitive load, good sense of design and anti-patterns. Handle the ethnographic research of a targeted user, communicate in non-technical terms, and generate user capabilities.

solve the end-user problem through the exploration of workflows. design on style guide on the system, and mentored by a group.

Mobile, Al, and Jackson Mississippi has been building a team, could entertain remote, some travel and shadow time for a remote collocated product management team, mobile, DC metro area.

Primarily tooling with Sketch, Balsamiq, Adobe UX, working knowledge of HTML and CSS

Jody Harbor or Lauren Chappelle the hiring managers

Essential Functions

Work with Business Analysts, Software Engineers and Quality Analysts to implement market requirements and functional specifications

Work well with other designers in a collaborative effective way

Design interfaces / mocks to be presented to customers for feedback

Support engineers in best practices for UI/UX design

Ensure that the modified and/or newly created application components interact appropriately

Analyze and design enhancements and fixes to application code

Design and code user interfaces in accordance with functional and technical programming standards

Complete all appropriate documentation required to maintain the application

Create a collaborative environment with other team members to ensure the team's overall effectiveness

Identify and communicate potential risks and roadblocks

Will be a part of a growing team of experienced UI/UX and IT professionals who are creating software applications and products that hospitals and nursing homes in communities across the country rely upon to provide healthcare to their local residents. You will play a key role in maintaining, supporting and creating consistent and modern user-centered user experiences and designs. Our technology stack consists of:

Bootstrap, HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, SASS

Responsive UI design

User Interface Mocking

User Experience Design

Agile development techniques and Scrum development processes

Additional Information:

• Will they be gathering and evaluating user requirements? If so, to what extent?

To some degree. Focused scope of the UI. – Two scopes:

o Big projects - Performing research activities alongside real users and using tools like journey maps to help distill out from the workflow what the software can do to support their needs. Working through a dynamic handoff to POs and BAs for them to be able to perform the further detailed work.

o More focused feature work – Receiving inputs from dev team stakeholders and providing the necessary oversight to inform any UX design activities necessary to meet their requests.

• Who will they be collaborating with i.e (product managers and engineers)?

PMs, BAs, Engineers, possibly customers.

• How will they illustrate their ideas (storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps)?

YES

• Will they be designing graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets? If so, please explain in further detail?

No. They may have input into this at times, but mostly designing screens by composing existing objects together.

• Will they be interacting with executive stakeholders? To what extent?

Yes. Periodically?

• What development capabilities and languages are you looking for?

No development languages required.

• What is the project story? Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?

Solutions for use by employees and staff in any role at a community hospital, clinic, or long-term care facility.

• Why is this a high priority for your team/department/company right now?

We are revamping our client over the next year and want to pay particular attention to the user experience. We want to use proven methodologies rather than make it up as we go.

• What is your pain point for not having this role?

Having to overextend existing resources.

• What is the benefit of having this role?

Having someone focused on these activities completely.

• What are the top 3 technologies/tools you want this person to have experience with?

Generically – User centered design

Usability testing techniques

Interaction design

• What will this person be spending the majority of their time doing?

Assisting with:

Implementation of user centered design processes in our SDLC

Visual and interaction designs

Implementation of usability testing in the sprint cycle

• What non-technical skills will you be looking for this person to possess?

o Communication

o Problem-solving

o Team vs. individual

*Communication

*Ability to translate design to end users, product managers and engineers

*Individual role, but interfacing with a variety of teams.

Work Environment:

PMs, BAs, Engineers, possibly customers.

Conservative enviroment. All men and women must wear business casual clothing with long sleeves and completely buttoned up. Hours are from 8-5pm. Deadlines are expected with a customer facing product

Interview Information:

3 step interview process

1. Phone

2. Skype

3. Additional Skype or Internal Interview