The User Experience Designer II creates easy and delightful experiences for users interacting with ANSYS products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an intermediate role, heavily focused on content production and communication. It is intended to expose the UX professional to the nuts-and-bolts aspects of their UX career; while building on presentation, communication, and usability aspects of the design role.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
* Designs, develops, and evaluates cutting-edge user interfaces with increased independence
* Reviews UX artifacts created by other UX team members
* Utilizes prototyping tools and UX toolkits
* May create, review, and manage submissions to development code streams with high quality
* Creates and delivers usability studies
* Communicates design rationale across product creation disciplines and personnel
* Records usability/UX problems with clear explanations and recommendations for improvement
* Works closely with product managers, development teams, and other designers
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
* BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, or Industrial Design with 2 years’ experience or MS
* Experience with Design tools such as Figma, Adobe tools such as Photoshop / Illustrator and Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) in any form
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
* Certificate in HCI
* Particular Experience with:
* Adobe Creative Suite
* Modeling and simulation applications:
* UX design and collaboration tools:
* Tools & technologies for UI implementation:
* Screen-capture/editing/video-editing tools
* Ability to:
* Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design
* Organize deliverables for future reflection and current investigations
* Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc.
* Prototype rapidly using any tools available