UX/UI designer at UN-Habitat

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support product development and user testing activities, for example: prepare research plans that outline study goals and methodology, develop discussion guides, create information-gathering artifacts.
• Work closely with user testing coordinator and front-end developer to improve and implement design elements that create user-friendly products and services that help users and meets their needs.
• Consider the end-to-end user journey and external factors that may impact the user experience including business, policy, and technical constraints.
• Communicate research findings and involve team in analysis and synthesis to develop empathy with the users and enable evidence-based design decisions.
• Synthesize research findings using appropriate tools and translate them into user stories.
• Visualize through diagramming, journey mapping, storyboarding, or information design to help others see the end-to-end and surface-to-core service and customer experience.
• Develop and maintain design systems and style guides.
• Design UI elements for both web and mobile devices, such as input controls, navigational components, and informational components (I didn’t understand?).
• Prepare high-fidelity interactive prototypes for both web and mobile devices, ready for demonstration at World Urban Forum.

Qualifications/special skills

• A minimum of bachelor's degree in User Experience (UX) Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Anthropology, Information Science, or related field is required.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional work experience involving design and development of high-quality mobile and web applications is required.
• Proven track record in developing user-friendly applications: portfolio demonstrating a range of UX/UI projects, preferably including work on data-driven applications or dashboards is required.
• Previous experience working with public sector institutions, particularly local authorities is desirable