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Position Description Summary: UI/UX Designer responsible for delivering exceptional user experiences and intuitive application designs. UI/UX designers will also support or facilitate requirements gathering workshops, communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives, conduct user research and analysis, conduct design reviews of current-state systems and applications, and lead design efforts for future-state user interface elements and user experiences; creating wireframes and mockups. The UI/UX Designer is a member of a cross-functional team and routinely consults with our agile development teams to ensure design principles are incorporated into agile development sprints. The successful candidate will be able to deliver adaptive and creative solutions to UI/UX design problems while staying up to date with best practices and emerging trends in user experience design.
The Work:
You will be part of an established team supporting one of ICF's U.S. Government clients in Washington, DC. The ICF team performs custom software development to modernize legacy systems, applications, and business processes using modern, cloud-based platforms.
Responsibilities:
Optimize existing user interface designs
Plan and conduct user research to understand user affinities, challenges, wish-list items that will help shape future-state vision for modernized applications
Plan and implement new user-centered designs by understanding business requirements and user feedback
Support and facilitate requirements gathering and communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives, and establish key design tenets to be included in application builds, etc.
Develop user-centered design requirements and support technical solution design
Conduct design reviews of existing systems and applications
Work with customers to shape future state user journeys
Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps
Translate requirements into style guides, design patterns and easy to use interfaces
Collaborate with architects, developers, and project teams to ensure design elements are incorporated into development sprints
Create and present prototypes
Design graphic user interface elements in ServiceNow to include back-end forms, and front-end service portals
Conceptualize, design, and implement consistent branding or styling, as well as document and maintain standards
Conduct UI/UX research
Conduct UI/UX testing prior to implementation
Requirements:
Practical experience with Human Centered Design techniques
Experience conducting user research
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Strong time management skills with the ability to work multiple parallel projects at once
Wireframing and UI Prototyping
User Interface Design (desktop, mobile)
Agile User Experience
Online User Experience
User Experience (UX) Research
User Experience (UX) Testing
U.S. Citizenship or Green Card Holder required due to federal contract requirements
Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Preferred Skills
ServiceNow experience strongly preferred
Experience with online collaboration tools such as Mural
Experience with wireframing and mockup tools such as Invision, Sketch, Adobe, etc.
Working at ICF
Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth. If you're seeking to make a difference in the world, visit www.icf.com/careers to find your next career. ICF-together for tomorrow.
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About ICF
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