Daedalus · 3 months ago
UX/UI Designer
Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffDaedalus is a company that creates human-centered and high-performance products and interfaces, primarily serving clients in healthcare, safety, scientific, and industrial markets. They are seeking a UX/UI Designer who will work closely with clients and team members to develop UX visions, convey UX solutions, and deliver successful UI concepts through various design methods.
ManufacturingProduct DesignProduct Management
Responsibilities
Successful candidates will work closely and collaboratively with clients as well as Daedalus researchers, human factors specialists, UX, UI, visual, and industrial designers, as well as software, mechanical, and electrical engineers
Primary responsibilities include helping clients to develop their UX vision and requirements; conveying compelling UX solutions through storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps; and delivering successful UI concepts in the form of wireframes and, at times, as polished screen mock-ups
The UX/UI designer will also share responsibility for uncovering user needs and testing a UI’s usability, often working with a Daedalus researcher to conduct user observation and interviews
Designers with a UX focus may team with a UI and/or visual designer to specify a finished UI and create production-ready assets
Qualification
Required
Experience designing great user experiences for desktop, mobile, embedded, or kiosk software
Deep understanding of interactive design concepts and their application
A grasp of how layout, typography, and iconography make or break the usability of software screens
Aptitude for creating UX/UI mockups that illustrate how software should look and work, from a user's perspective
Expert proficiency using Adobe Illustrator, Sketch App, or a similar current platform for screen design
Ability to articulate interactive concepts using Invision, Proto.io, Adobe apps, Keynote, and/or with HTML/JS/CSS
Ability to execute projects from initial design to support of the engineering effort, including specification and asset production
Ability to manage simultaneous projects in possibly wildly different domains
Excellent communication skills (in conversation, writing, and presentation)
Ability and desire to achieve great results on schedule and in budget
Must have experience receiving, integrating and taking initiative based on colleagues' and/or client critiques
Preferred
Experience participating in qualitative research, including contextual inquiry, ethnographic observation, and individual and group interviews
Experience with quantitative research methods
Ability to transform research insights into design requirements that can clearly be communicated to client and internal stakeholders
Company
Daedalus
Daedalus offers research, design, engineering, and manufacturing services for industrial companies.
Founded in 1979
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase