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Visiting User Experience Designer - Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative (150614)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Visiting User Experience Designer

Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for a Visiting User Experience (UX) Designer in the Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative Office. The UX Designer will work on design projects for new apps to be built on the Rokwire platform for our new Smart Campus Strategy Lab (StratLab). We are seeking someone with a commitment to engaging in human-centered design approaches with a relentless drive to create the best possible experience and help it to evolve over time.

Smart Healthy Communities is an interdisciplinary initiative based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, comprised of specialists in science, computing, design, and humanities. Together, we're working to realize the promise of the information age: not just better tools, but a better world.

The Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative has developed an open-source mobile software platform called Rokwire that integrates diverse streams of data and sensor information to present user-personalized results, while significantly reducing mobile app development. This platform turns overwhelming amounts of local information into personal, meaningful experiences, re-centering data that exists in communities to the people who live within them.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Conduct primary and secondary research to gather user insights that will guide product definition and design.
  • Work in individual and group settings to research, brainstorm, co-create, and transform concept directions into clear, simple digital experiences that meet users’ needs and goals. Conduct user testing and create user personas.
  • Update designs based on the insights gathered through quantitative and qualitative research.
  • Create and iterate on wireframes, prototypes, annotations, and diagrams in order to convey design ideas for meeting project requirements.

Required education, experience, and qualifications:

  • Bachelors in the study of design or equivalent project/portfolio experience.
  • Minimum of two years of User Experience (UX) design experience.
  • Thorough understanding of UX methodologies and visual communication principles.
  • Experience using design research methods to uncover customer insights.
  • Experience with resources such as a pattern library, repositories, and internal communication tools.
  • Experience sketching interfaces, low- and high-fidelity wireframes, and interactive mockups.

Successful candidates will have:

  • Knowledge of human-centered design principles and best practices.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proactive in seeking feedback.
  • Thorough knowledge of front-end web best practices and responsive and adaptive design.
  • Knowledge of graphic design concepts like typography, spacing, use of color, and grid systems.
  • A passion for turning complex issues and requirements into clean, simple, aesthetically pleasing experiences.
  • Illustration skills.
  • Strong organizational and communication skills.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects/assignments simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with a team. Ability to work productively with little oversight.

Application:

For full consideration, materials should be received by September 15, 2021. Application materials should include a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, names, and contact information for three references, including email and telephone numbers. Candidates may create a profile through https//jobs.illinois.edu. For further information regarding application procedures, contact Jennifer Steiling at steiling@illinois.edu.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible Academic Professional position. Salary is commensurate with experience and the start date will be as soon as possible after the close of the search. This position may become permanent at a later date. Initial screening of applications will begin immediately, and interviews may be conducted prior to the close of the search. However, no hiring decision will be made until after the close of the search.

University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Convictions are not a bar to employment. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Office of the Provost Category:6-Research Title:Visiting User Experience Designer - Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative (150614) Open Date:08/18/2021 Close Date:09/15/2021 Organization Name:Smart Campus Initiative

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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