Abacus is hiring : UX / UI Designer - Communications in St Paul

MediabistroSt Paul, MN, United States

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POSITION TITLE : UX / UI Designer - Communications

Estimate Start Date : May 19, 2025 End Date : pril 30, 2027 Work Location / Type : This will be a hybrid position at the 390 Robert Street N location. We will negotiate the number of days per week this position will be onsite. Narrative Description of Position :

The UX / UI designer will join a small team of digital communicators in the design and production of a website implementation of the regional development guide-a new way of delivering policy plan content for this organization! We hope for the UX / UI designer to be particularly experienced with designing for content delivery because this product will deliver a lot of content. Also note that this work will already be in progress when the designer starts, and may require reworking some of what is already in progress, as well as enhancing existing executions with additional, more sophisticated features.

We hope for the UX / UI designer to help lead a light version of a UAT phase this summer, too. (We do not expect to have sophisticated tooling in place for this UAT effort.)

We hope to find a UX / UI designer who is flexible and accommodating, as this project has some non-standard elements that will require us to be nimble and creative.

Will require work samples that demonstrate UX and UI work.

Scope of Work :

Mobile experience for the Imagine 2050 website
djust existing design work to better navigate lengthy content
bout section content
Interactive table experience
Home page wizard to help users find the content they are looking for quickly
Data feature on home page
Enhanced design of mega menu / mega footer treatment
How do we best integrate with related products
Future scope : design work for reporting on "measures"

Specifications of Position :

Specifications Descriptions of Specifications MINIMUM SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS : Must have to be accepted for consideration for this position. Level of Education ssociates Degree minimum Years of experience in Position Title 3 minimum Certification(s) None required Required Skills and Experience

UX product / content design experience :

Create repeatable design patterns to help user understand how to navigate a content-heavy website

Experience designing for the delivery of long-form content types with many relationships to other long-form content types

Decent knowledge of content strategy principles, having worked in partnership with a content strategist or having performed as the IA for a product

Modern web design experience :

Designing for mobile responsiveness

Designing for accessibility

Understands and is able to utilize modern design frameworks, such as material design for Bootstrap or Tailwind

Content readability is really important for this specific scope.

bility to create designs / extend designs / tweak designs of :

Website pages

Product designs (e.g. sorting / filtering for tables / reports, integration of data from external sources, etc.)

Iconography (can use icon packs, may need to tweak for appropriateness)

[Nice to have] Infographic design (would have source material to make visually more appealing and usable for web)

Uses Figma or XD for executing design work

bility to facilitate conversations to get the requirements needed to execute. (We have a strategist for this work, but we would benefit from a content-savvy user-experience partner.)

Can do (and is willing to do) the production of the assets needed to develop the design

Flexible and adaptable

Can work expeditiously with good direction

Willing to ask good questions and challenge the direction, but also willing to let some things go in the name of getting a v1 done in a timely way

DESIRED SPECIFICATIONS : Not required, but desire experience in these specifications for this position. Desired Skills and Experience

Content strategy, information architecture, user acceptance testing

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