User Experience (UX) Designer
Founded in 2001, Adage is a web design and development firm that combines strategic thinking with a passion for technology to advance our client's purpose. We bring together a diverse team of creative and technical professionals who partner with our clients to create and implement their digital strategy. It's our people-first approach that drives us to win awards, work with prestigious clients, and break ground with exciting technology.
Adage is consistently recognized as one of Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois, and on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago.
As a User Experience Designer, you will collaborate with your team to architect and design best-in-class digital experiences for a variety of organizations. We engage closely with clients to understand what they want to accomplish through their website and then work with our own developers and designers to bring those ideas to life. You’ll take part in discovery workshops with a diverse set of clients and help create a digital strategy to achieve their goals. You will utilize all available skills from your UX tool belt, especially user research, information architecture, prototyping, and usability testing.
At Adage, the design team is committed to continuously pushing our craft. To do so, we all participate in daily feedback loops, daily inspiration, and daily learning. We design with intent and empathy to continuously improve the digital experiences of organizations and their audiences through informed practice. You will join a team of highly collaborative, always-learning, always-improving designers.
Our ideal candidate is passionate about user experience, has a solid portfolio of projects, a collaborative spirit and a growth mindset.
What you’ll be doing:
- Consulting with clients to define and document their business requirements, as well as the challenges they are trying to solve
- Defining user goals and requirements by conducting user research, developing questionnaires, conducting user interviews, performing secondary research, etc.
- Developing sitemaps and prototypes at various levels of fidelity to propose and demonstrate solutions to clients. You’ll do this while following best practices in UX design
- Creating personas, user scenarios, user journey maps and wireframes to help present research findings and design ideas to external clients and our internal delivery team
- Collaborating closely with all members of our internal team to ensure our applications and websites provide the best user experience possible
- Developing, defining and refining best practices and processes as they relate to UX
We’re looking for someone with:
- 3 to 5 years experience in a design role at an agency, product company, or startup
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in one of the creative arts, Digital Media, Human and Computer Interaction, Design Thinking, or equivalent work experience
- Eagerness to learn and desire for feedback and continuously improving their design output
- Eagerness to be client-facing, including leading design thinking workshops with clients and end users
- Effective communication of design decisions to team members and clients
- Working knowledge or desire to learn Axure and Figma
- Passion for technology and a desire to understand website and web app development
- Appreciation of technical limits, scope, timeline and budget, as needed constraints for successful design
- Desire to learn how to design in browser and has working knowledge or desire to learn HTML, CSS, and JS
A digital portfolio is required for consideration.
What Adage Offers
Adage has consistently been recognized as one of Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois, and on the Crain’s list of Best Places to Work in Chicago. We have a people first approach, and support our employees with the things that matter most. You’ll enjoy work life balance with flex schedules, work from home options, and 20+ days paid time off annually. Adage offers great benefits with 85% employer paid insurance, profit sharing bonuses, 401k, and FSA. We have monthly happy hours, quarterly social events, an annual retreat, and a great office environment with a stocked kitchen.
Adage Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents and respects diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skill sets. All qualified candidates that share Adage's core values are strongly encouraged to apply.