UI/UX /Designer

Skills, expertise, and requirements:

• You must be based in Kenya with the ability to attend in-person sessions in Nairobi and Migori counties.
  
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
  
• You must be fluent in Swahili and English.
  
• 4+ years of professional experience in a design consultancy or equivalent position, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
  
• Fluency in the human-centred design process from qualitative research and synthesis to ideation, prototyping, and implementation.
  
• Service Design, UX, UI - Proficiency in wireframing, prototyping, and design tools such as InVision, Figma, Miro, etc.
  
• You are solution-focused and medium-agnostic, willing to step out of your core skill set or discipline to find the correct solution to a design challenge.
  
• You have cultural sensitivity, creativity, and resourcefulness—comfortable finding your way through.
  
• You deliver precise and effective written and verbal communication to convey ideas, instructions, and feedback to team members, girls, and young women.
  

Responsibilities

UX Analysis:

• Devise and conduct a consultation plan with key stakeholders and target audiences, including questionnaires, focus groups, or interviews.
  
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the current UX design, identifying usability challenges and opportunities for improvement.
  
• Create user personas and scenarios to guide the design improvements based on user needs and goals.
  
• Conduct concept and usability testing in the field with users
  
• Provide a detailed report summarizing the findings, including prioritized recommendations for UX enhancements to stakeholders and developers.
  
• Work with data to optimize and enhance products.
  
• Own and conduct design reviews with data, engineering, and content teams to ensure a successful deployment with an appropriate go-ahead.
  

UI Enhancement:

• Utilize the insights from the UX analysis to redesign and enhance the visual appearance of the web platform's user interface.
  
• Define interaction models, UI components, and navigation structures to optimize user engagement and facilitate information discovery.
  
• Incorporate interactive elements to enhance usability and convey complex concepts effectively.
  
• Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, and mockups to illustrate proposed UI changes.
  
• Implement modern design principles, including responsiveness, consistency, and visual hierarchy, while aligning with our brand identity.
  
• Ensure the new UI design elements fit seamlessly into the existing platform's technical framework, ensuring a consistent and cohesive user experience across all website components.
  
• Collaborate with Designers and Developers to create intuitive, user-friendly software to ensure that the updated UI maintains or improves the platform's overall performance and loading speed.
  
• Support UI content creation as and when required.
  

Please submit proposals, as described above, to the Email provided. Please clearly mark your email with the subject 'Kenya UI/UX Designer.'