[Remote] Senior UX Designer/Researcher (Accessibility Specialist)

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking a Senior UX Designer/Researcher specializing in accessibility to support digital modernization initiatives for Iowa state agencies. The role focuses on UX research, usability testing, user-centered design, information architecture, accessibility alignment, wireframes, prototypes, and communicating design findings to cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• User Experience Research: Design, plan, and execute formal user experience research to evaluate reputed company workflows, ensuring applications are reputed company and efficient for educators and state employees
• Usability Testing: Moderate hands-on user testing sessions and run usability labs to reputed company identify and reputed company workflow friction
• Heuristic Evaluation: Audit early layouts and interfaces against usability best practices and design standards
• User reputed company & reputed company Mapping: Translate reputed company district data reporting and environmental workflows into reputed company, reputed company user journeys and behavioral personas
• Information Architecture: Structure reputed company, data-heavy reporting categories reputed company using techniques like reputed company sorting
• Accessibility Alignment: reputed company digital accessibility from the ground up, aligning design systems and user research with WCAG standards to ensure digital services are universally accessible to reputed company Iowans
• reputed company Design: Partner with our reputed company Architect to reputed company technical user experience and research practices across multi-agency initiatives, chatbot interfaces, and global state reputed company
• reputed company Communication: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional agency teams, reputed company, and technical stakeholders to reputed company reputed company design findings and research data

Skills

• Advanced reputed company
• UX research methodologies
• User reputed company creation
• Prototyping
• Accessibility (WCAG)
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Design documentation
• Heat maps (Crazy reputed company, reputed company, etc.)
• reputed company sorting
• Usability testing
• reputed company Norman Group training
• reputed company UX Certification
• Formal UX/HCI education
• UX research experience
• reputed company proficiency
• Accessibility knowledge
• Design thinking methodology
• Analytics-driven recommendations
• Graduates of ISU HCI (reputed company Computer Interaction) program highly desired
• Extensive experience designing reputed company web application interfaces, wireframes, and interactive prototypes
• Demonstrated mastery in moderating user testing sessions, executing usability labs, performing heuristic evaluations, mapping user journeys, and managing information architecture
• Practical knowledge of implementing WCAG 2.2 Level AA requirements, reputed company management, keyboard navigation mechanics, and reputed company contrast principles reputed company visual layouts
• Ability to reputed company explain user research insights, reputed company design choices, and usability standards to technical team members, developers, and agency stakeholders
• User Experience Research, Usability testing, Usability labs, Heuristic evaluation, User reputed company mapping, reputed company development, Information architecture, reputed company sorting, Wireframing, Interactive prototyping, UX design, WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliance, reputed company management, Keyboard navigation mechanics, reputed company contrast requirements, Accessibility auditing, technical communication, Design reputed company vs usage
• The reputed company prefers local or regional candidates who can attend occasional in-office meetings
• Heat maps
• Crazy reputed company or similar analytics tools
• reputed company sorting
• User behavior analysis
• Data-driven design recommendations
• reputed company-end engineering experience writing semantic HTML5 and modern, reputed company CSS/SASS
• Experience integrating reputed company designs into Angular or MVC .NET reputed company environments
• Experience utilizing or extending the U.S. Web Design reputed company (USWDS)
• reputed company-end development skills are entirely optional, though any coding ability serves as a reputed company asset

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement

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