Location: Diegem(3 days onsite)
Languages: English Fluent verbal and written (& Dutch Plus)
Employment Type: Freelance
Start Date: ASAP
Responsibilities
- Design user friendly web and mobile application that will be build using modern front-end frameworks. This involves simple and complex input and visualization screens, depending on the business requirements
- Work in a team with front-end developers, backend developers & project managers on various projects. Cooperate with domain experts and business analysts
- Establish and document general UI/UX design principles and guidelines for our department in alignment and cooperation with the global DHL UI/UX team
- UI/UX
- Design user flows and low fidelity wireframes
- Participate in the creation of user stories
- Create high fidelity mock-ups and/or prototypes
- Create user-centered designs by understanding business requirements, the voice of the customer, user journeys, customer feedback and usability findings
- Communicate with product and engineering teams, as well as business stakeholders and executive leadership
Requirements
What skills do we expect from you?
- Is able to both work independent and in team context. Our UI/UX team is responsible for the application designs in our portfolio but has to align with the global DHL UI/UX team
- Extensive experience in converting functional requirements into screen designs and user flows that allow for a fluent user experience and efficient management of business processes and data. This will range from simple to complex business processes
- Extensive experience in creating designs and user flows in cooperation with product teams, business analysts and engineering teams
- Extensive experience in creating mockups that increase the productivity of the engineering teams
- You are able to motivate your design & user flow decisions and present them to different audiences. You are not afraid of challenging stakeholders
- Excellent knowledge of UI/UX design patterns and the ability of distributing this knowledge to engineering teams
- Experience in designing complex input and visualization screens involving a variety of data input components (autocomplete, picklist, ...), data presentation components (table, tree, tree table, charts, ...) and screen layouts
- You work on a daily basis with prototyping/design tools like Figma, Sketch, Axure, Adobe CC, ... We use Figma for prototype design
- Experience with web, mobile & responsive design
- Experience in creating a consistent user experience
- Experience in creating user stories
- Experience in user research and user testing, creating user personas and gathering data to make informed design decisions
- Ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment. Focus on meeting deadlines when needed.
- Inquisitive and analytical mind
- Proven ability to work in a multi-cultural multi-functional environment where consensus is critical for success
- Customer and end-user focused
- Excellent oral and UX Documenting skills
- Conceptual thinking: Understands the underlying issues in most situations and relates some similarities between situations that are not obviously connected through the use of concepts, models or previous experiences
- Seeking Information: Frequently identifies information gaps that are not immediately apparent and selects appropriate sources of information
- Forming Relationships: Develops good working relationships with internal contacts in immediate organization
- Teamwork: Contributes actively, both in practical terms and by promoting shared values and mutual respect, to the achievement of goals by teams which sometimes include people with varying types & levels of skills
What are great skills to have?
- Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
- Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS and CSS based technologies
- Familiarity with limitation of front-end frameworks such as Angular & React
- Understanding of the entire web application development process (design, development and deployment)
- Awareness of micro front-end solutions
