UI/UX App Designer

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Gentex is seeking a qualified and talented UI / UX App Designer to join our Design Team. In this role you will realize UX practices across a portfolio of products and be a strong voice for human-centered design.

Successful candidates will have a proven ability to build consensus, influence, and work effectively within a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, engineers, and senior leaders.

They will be responsible for leading and executing design for multiple app lications. They will collaborate with a team of professionals but also work independently with minimal supervision.

The ideal candidate for this position will possess excellent knowledge of UI and UX design principles and have a strong understanding of the design process.

An empathetic mindset and attention to detail are essential qualities for success in this role.

This is a full-time, direct position. The role will be based at Gentex Corporation's Zeeland, MI, or Grand Rapids, MI offices.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The UI / UX Designer III engages users with design that inspires, engages, and excites them. Responsibilities include working individually or leading teams of designers in research and benchmarking, designing pixel perfect graphical user interfaces, App development and creating consistent style guides across multiple platforms / devices and produce illustrations to communicate ideas and concepts.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design positive customer experience for products, service, and solutions.
• Work closely with industrial design, engineering, marketing, and program managers to define the visual design elements iteratively.
• Develop design visions and beautiful visual languages, lead the execution across different platforms which based on Gentex and customer Branding language.
• Create visual designs of graphics, icons, animations, user interface Elements, and visual design specifications.
• Define project storytelling opportunities for projects, use video makers, storyboard, photographers, and illustrators to deliver unique Project narratives.
• Work closely with Engineers to ensure the feasibility of visual concepts and the fidelity of the final output.
• Lead design workshops and brainstorming sessions and communicate ideas and design solutions through detailed design documentation.
• Collaborate with industrial designers and engineers in defining information and UI architectures, developing conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and low fidelity prototypes.
• Wireframe development and / or flow charts.
• Create user interface simulations.
• Create information architecture examples.
• Lead and develop teams of creative designers and developers.
• Perform daily tasks related to leading and mentoring interns including evaluating performance and hiring.
• Educating and developing training materials for incoming UI / UX Designers.
• Create departmental standard operating procedures.
• Continuously perform research on new UI / UX tools and software to evaluate their utility for potential future use.
• Other duties as assigned.

HOW YOU’LL DO IT

• Apply a holistic approach in understanding design strategies, translate them into design solutions, and ensure consistency in quality and execution.
• Accurately calculate project costs for budgeting purposes and resource allocation.
• Comply ing with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
• Maintain ing high level of honesty, integrity and confidentiality with respect to company matters.

WHAT TO BRING

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in user experience or user interface design or related field.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Graphic Design, Information Design, Human Factors design, or other visual arts related field.
• Leadership experience or experience leading project teams.
• Superb information design abilities, passionate about Graphical user interface design.
• Meticulous and efficient production and optimization habits, and impeccable problem-solving skills.
• 3-5 years experience on graphics software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Sketch.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Experience producing production assets for a variety of screen resolutions.
• Experience with embedded design projects.
• Experience with Style guides / Visual Brand Language Guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the latest user experience, user interface design patterns and trends.

WHAT WILL HELP

• Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project deadlines and deliverables.
• Good visual trend sensitivity and self-motivated study on new visual design direction to lead the product visual direction.
• Familiarity with manufacturing processes and feasibility, as well as an understanding of automotive design requirements and practices preferred.
10 days ago