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UX / UI Designer

Reston, VA 20190

Posted: 02/11/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: UI/UX Job Number: 628254 Is job remote?: Yes Country: United States

Job Description


Location: Remote (EST and CST candidates only) 
Pay Rate: up $63.00/hour (DOE)
Duration: 3 Months (likely to extend) 

Planet Interactive's client in the Education space is seeking a UX / UI Designer that is highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research This is a REMOTE 3-month assignment! 

UX / UI Designer will help bring the clients vision to life. You will bring your deep knowledge of mobile app design and help the team to craft visually appealing and intuitive app interfaces, ensuring seamless user experiences on various devices. 

UX/UI Designer Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to the UX/UI of design system, standards, patterns, and UI elements
  • Support Design Research (generative and evaluative) initiatives for team/products 
  • Analyze business and technical requirements 
  • Lead synthesis sessions with team, following agile and lean methodologies 
  • Create user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways
  • Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams 
  • Partner with the Accessibility team to ensure designs are compliant 
  • Create and present concepts/deliverables to team and stakeholders 
  • Conduct handoffs to developers through tools like Figma and Zeplin 
  • Work collaboratively with Core Design team to ensure brand and pattern alignment 
  • Contribute to the overall UX/UI design strategy, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our products 
  • Document and present design updates to stakeholders and users 
  • Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience 
  • Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met 
  • Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers 
  • Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns 
  • Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work 
  • Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts 
  • Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align visual design approach with project goals, and the Brand 

UX/UI Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or equivalent years of work experience.
  • 5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience.
  • Experience with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews.
  • Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions.
  • Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus. 
  • Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a team
  • Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently 
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