Job: UI/UX Designer at Canon Innovation Lab

Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Who are we?

Canon is the leader in digital imaging. Since 1973 Canon Canada has demonstrated a commitment to enhancing our contribution to society through technological innovation and excellence and we’re proud and excited to be recruiting a brand new team to push us to forward towards these goals.

Launched in November, Canon’s new Innovation Lab @ Communitech is a focal point of innovation within the entire global Canon organization. We are building a brand new team, in a newly renovated space, along side organizations like Google, BlackBerry, Christie Digital, Manulife, TD Canada Trust, and Canadian Tire.

We are currently seeking a Full-Time UI/UX Designer to design brand new prototypes based on ideas generated within the innovation team or in response to business problems outlined by the company.

What will you be responsible for?

• Working with the internal team, company stakeholders, and partners to understand, refine and develop their idea
• Defining user personas and documenting user workflows
• Creating wireframe interfaces for multiple platforms

What traits do you need to be successful?

• Curiosity. You must enjoy learning new tools, technologies and concepts.
• Self-Reliance. An ability to learn, work, investigate and solve problems, all with minimal
  guidance is vital.
• Platform agnosticism. We develop web-based and native mobile applications using the
  appropriate tool for each project.
• Flexibility. This is an experiment. We don’t have all the answers, and need your help to figure it out!

What skills would be an asset?

• Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch and Adobe Creative Suite/In Design
• Comfortable with an iterative design process, sweat the details and enjoy working through
  numerous options before committing to one
• Familiarity with front-end programming. You should know which parts of your design require
  HTML, CSS, or JavaScript (being able to code is a asset, but not a requirement)
• The ability to interact with almost anyone, and to guide their thoughts into meaningful decisions about the nature of their ideas and products
• An understanding of the business drivers that influence a product’s life cycle
• Extensive portfolio highlighting thoughtful and creative design

If you are interested in joining Canon in our new innovation lab, please submit your resume and cover letter to the opportunity below. Please submit links to portfolios or samples of application work if available. Canon is committed to employment equity and is an equal opportunity employer. A criminal check will be completed for the successful candidate.

To apply, send directly to Matt Scobel at mscobel@canada.canon.com

Job: User Experience Designer at Clearpath Robotics

Position: User Experience Designer
Company: Clearpath Robotics
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Experience: 3 + Years
Education: Undergraduate degree or college diploma in CS, Software Engineering, Graphics Design, Visual Arts, Industrial Design with coursework in HCI and/or user-centered design methods (or equivalent experience)
Duration: Full-Time

About Us

Clearpath Robotics Inc. specializes in the design and manufacture of unmanned vehicle systems for research and development and a variety of commercial applications. Our clients range from small local businesses to some of the best known technical institutions on the planet. Based in Kitchener, Clearpath Robotics employs highly talented people who live and breathe robotics. We believe that work must have a high ìcoolî factor, and weíre looking for people who share in our passion to create remarkable products and change the world.

About the Job

Clearpath has been developing software to make our robots smarter and better able to solve real-world problems– the capabilities of our robots are reaching the point where we risk overwhelming our users. We need someone who loves the idea of having their work affect the real world in very dramatic ways to take on defining the look and feel of usersí interaction with our systems.

As our first User Experience Designer, you will be responsible for putting yourself in the shoes of our users and making sure that our systems are as easy to use as possible. You will also help our robots integrate seamlessly with how the world has been traditionally doing business so far, including when robots get lost or damaged. On top of this, the novelty of some of our systems means that you will have opportunities to develop new ways for users to interact with technology in general.

Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Designing the user experience for robots, from user stories to sketches
• Developing design prototypes in a variety of fidelities
• Conducting user testing and focus groups
• Evaluating possible technical frameworks for implementation of your ideas
• Ensuring that the company brands and product values are clearly expressed
• Emotional support of lost or confused robots

About You

You want to work for a fast-paced growing company that thinks big and dreams huge. You are driven, view work as more than just a job, and are never satisfied with less than 100% effort. You want to be surrounded by people like you; creative, fun-loving, and passionate about their work. You are motivated by making an impact on your workplace and you thrive on challenging and rewarding problems. You aren’t afraid of field testing the results of your work in a blizzard, demonstrating it to a Fortune 500 boardroom, or working with the fact that sometimes, robots just aren’t smart enough for what youíd like them to do (yet).

Required Experience/Skills:

• 3+ years professional experience with user experience design
• 1+ years professional experience with accessibility and usability testing
• Has shipped products used by real people and refined designs after shipping
• Excellent visual communication skills
• Capable of independently developing basic UI prototypes
• Ability to communicate designs with Adobe CS, OmniGraffle, or similar programs
• Work portfolio available for review

Bonus points for:

• Experience with user-facing web technologies
• Experience with Android UI development
• Familiarity with maps and other ways of graphically expressing spatial relationships
• Experience with designing interfaces for commercial/enterprise users
• Familiarity with the QT framework
• Comfort with one or more of: Linux, JIRA, git, ROS
• A firm belief that the only thing holding the robot revolution back is a better UI for Skynet

Apply through our online job portal. Please submit cover letter along with your resume. Instructions for sending supporting documentation, testimonials, references, pictures, web links, code samples, drawings, or other indications of how much you love robots will be provided in the confirmation email sent by our system upon receiving your application. Include User Experience Designer in the subject of any further communications.

No recruiters or form cover letters, please. They do not please our mechanical masters.

Job: Interaction Designer at Christie

Company: Christie (Global Market Solutions department)

Location: Kitchener, Ontario

Duration: Full-time permanent

The User Experience Design Team at Christie is seeking a talented, passionate Interaction Designer to help create best-in-class interfaces for the control of our professional digital projectors.

You possess a rich understanding of user-centered design principles, interaction design, information design, and usability, and are able to demonstrate this through the creation of beautiful and functional interfaces. You can work collaboratively within an agile product team made up of product managers, engineers, software developers, and Q&A, and be able to clearly articulate design choices in the form of high level and detailed wireframes, task flows, mockups, and/or prototypes. You know how to employ user research and user testing methodologies to drive design decisions iteratively throughout the development lifecycle. Finally, you eagerly seek out opportunities to serve as a champion of User Experience within and outside of your project teams.

Summary

You have a strong background in interaction design, a keen design sense, and a passion for bringing products to life.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio demonstrating examples of interaction design, such as annotated wireframes, storyboards, or prototypes, as well as user research activities. It should show a breadth of experience and illustrate the entire design process from ideation through to the final design and clearly state your individual contribution to the project/product. Submissions without a portfolio included will not be considered.
• Experience translating high-level product requirements into high-level and detailed design specifications, such as wireframes, task flows, prototypes, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute usability tests and other user research, showing how results were analyzed and translated into specific and prioritized requirements.
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate and defend your ideas at all stages of the design process to a wide variety of audiences, including product management, engineering, and software development teams.
• The right person is a good team player but also a self-starter who is able to carry a project through to completion.
• Experience designing software solutions for a variety of platforms, such as desktop, web, and mobile, including touch interfaces
• Proficiency with industry tools – such as Visio, Illustrator, Fireworks, Axure, Balsamiq, etc.
• Degree in a relevant field (Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, etc.). Industry experience is an asset. Preferably 3 – 5 years.

Apply now

Job: UX Designer at Intellijoint Surgical

Contract: UX Designer at Intellijoint Surgical

Company: Intellijoint Surgical Inc.

Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Level: flexible

Duration: short term, with repeat possibilities

Intellijoint is a medium-stage startup currently producing measurement tools for hip replacement surgery. We are working on our next generation product that involves tools and custom measurement system and software. We are busy and looking for help with our workload. To that end, we are looking for User Experience oriented skills and abilities to augment our own in designing the software and measurement system interface.

Work could include any or all of the following:

UX Design:

• workflow optimization
• HMI/button mapping
• layout and integration of various SW steps

UI Design:

• individual screen layouts
• stylizing
• SW branding (consistent with rest of product)

Visual/Graphic Design:

• icons, pictures and other graphics
• motion design (transition effects, animations, etc)

UI Development:

• implementation of the details above for a Mac environment

Since we are a startup, we are on the move and looking for help as soon as possible. If you might be able to work with us, we want to hear from you. Please contact at us at job.posting@intellijointsurgical.com and tell us how you can help and convince us you are the one we want.

Job: UX Designer at Quarry

Job: Head of User Experience

Company: In stealth
Location: Waterloo, Ontario

We are looking for a talented, creative and experienced design leader to take on the role of Head of User Experience. This person will lead the design of every customer touch point and experience, from business cards to an application sub-menu, and everywhere in between. Collaborating with the rest of the management team, the Head of User Experience will have the opportunity to create the kind of technology experiences that people will remember and recall often.

Don’t get it twisted though — this is a big job. Our company cannot succeed without the right person in this role.

Responsibilities

Lead all creative aspects of the company, be the voice of the customer, strive religiously to deliver the best product experiences, know when to lead and when to get out of the way. We’re even holding off on naming the company to enable the Head of User Experience to be part of the conversation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s in Visual Arts, equivalent program, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in interface, visual and user experience design.
• 5+ years experience in heuristic analysis, accessibility and usability testing.
• Design experience with user-facing experiences on Internet connected devices (desktop, web, mobile, other).
• Design experience with shipping products used by real people in the real world.
• 5+ years experience in leading teams and people.
• Extreme passion to deliver the best product experience humanly possible.
• Demonstrable history of innovation.
• Self-starter who can roll well with others, deliver now, and be flexible in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Work in Waterloo (co-located work environment).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Apply now

Send your resume and portfolio to gfeezee at gmail dot com.

Job: UX Designer

On behalf of our client in the Security Software sector, Procom KW is searching for a UX Designer with at least 5 years experience. This is your chance to work with a company in an exciting industry, using the latest technologies, multiple platforms and environments and a sexy suite of products– what more could you want?

UX Designer Job Details

Reporting to the VP Product Management, the UX Designer will be working closely with Engineers and product owners to take product requirements and create complex and functional user interfaces that amaze the end users.

UX Designer Job Responsibilities

• Transform requirements into software workflows that follow user requirements
• 
Create wireframes, and high and low fidelity prototypes to express an exciting design vision
• 
Work with the Engineering team and stakeholders to confirm design concept validity
• Interact with the user community and internal product owners by conducting research and focus groups
• Test designs to ensure UX is seamless and follows the UX of the product suite and recommend improvements

UX Designer Mandatory Requirements

• BA in Visual Design, Computer Science or a related technical field
• 
5–10 yrs experience in UX/UI design
• 
iOS/Android/web/Windows experience
• Expert using Adobe CC – Photoshop and Illustrator
• 
Experience with CSS/HTML/JavaScript

UX Designer Nice to Have Skills

• Practical experience with Agile and Jira considered an asset

UX Designer Start Date

• Immediate

UX Designer Assignment Length

Permanent, full time

UX Designer Location

Waterloo, ON

If interested in this position, please send your resume to paigec@procom.ca

Job: Director of User Experience at Sun Life

Location: Waterloo or Toronto, Ontario

Summary

Reporting to the AVP, Digital Strategy, the Director, User Experience is a new role. The Director, User Experience and team will provide thought leadership and be the resident authority team on user experience and information architecture principles.

This person will have a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a variety of business leaders, technology leaders, brand teams, and other key stakeholders to develop large growth businesses.

The ideal candidate will bring deep understanding of customer research, knowledge gathering, ideation, prototyping, design frameworks and concept visualization. He or she will bring years of experience building and leading a team ideally including user experience leads, architects and researchers. The Director, User Experience will partner and work with the business units and regions to ensure alignment incorporating feedback and best practices. This role will interface and have accountabilities for communication with a variety of stakeholders in Canada, the US and Asia.

Accountabilities

• Develop and implement an enterprise level strategy for embedding user experience (UX) guidelines and best practices in the organization.
• Provide strategic guidance in support of the user experience and information architecture service by understanding the direction and goals of the business.
• Identify and champion the User Experience to deliver business value and increase the Sun Life Financial digital brand recognition
• Identify innovation opportunities improving the customer experience and lead generation with a focus on creating and updating the digital properties to address user challenges.
• Define and incorporate relevant UX, web and mobile usage research and date to appropriately inform design decisions
• Create and effectively present UX deliverables; wireframes, workflows and paper prototypes to explain and negotiate design solutions to key stakeholder.
• Define and measure metrics to track user satisfaction both overall and specific to strategic development
• Build and maintain key relationships in Canadian, US and Asia with Marketing leaders by optimizing their digital channels and ensuring a customer-centric approach is consistent with the Digital Marketing vision and mandate.
• Keep abreast of industry trends, web development technology and advancements insuring SLF provides best in class services
• Staff and train the team according to strategic direction and technical requirements
• Foster and promote a positive working and leaning environment

Skills

• Strong knowledge of user experience design; information architecture and interaction design. Leading expert and thought leader in UX methodology.
• Familiar with User Centered Design Process.
• Ability to successfully manage and deliver on multiple projects.

Education and Experience

• University or advance degree in business, marketing or communications
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in digital environment
• Experience with developing and executing UX strategy in a mid to large size corporation
• Business minded and oriented
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships to influence change
• Innovative problem solving skills and excellent analytical abilities
• Strong ability to identify and implement process improvements

To apply

Please apply for this position by email at ashley.avolio [at] sunlife [dot] com. We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Job: UI designer (web and mobile) at RDM

Location: RDM in Waterloo, Ontario

Team or role: UI designer

Company Information

RDM is a leading provider of specialized software and hardware products for electronic payment processing. RDM has pioneered electronic cheque conversion systems and web based image and transaction management services for banks, retailers, payment processors and government agencies.

Position Summary

We are doing a UI refresh of an existing web application and related mobile app. We are looking for someone to mock up screens in Photoshop, create assets, and create UI guidelines. For specific high priority modules, we also want assistance with usability reviews, workflow improvements, and a more intensive UI redesign. This is a large complex product and requires someone who has experience with software development processes. This is a 4-6 month temporary or contract position.

For more information about this position, and to apply, visit the RDM site.

Job: UX Designer at Henkaa

Company: Henkaa

Location: Toronto, Ontario

company information

“Henka,” which means change in Japanese is where the name for our convertible fashion and accessories company is derived.  At Henkaa, everything changes and our flagship product is the innovative Sakura convertible dress, which is essentially one dress that can transform into infinite styles.  The mission at Henkaa is to be a canvas that empowers women of all shapes, sizes, and walks of life to do more with less, to reuse and repurpose, to innovate, to educate, to share, to create opportunity, to grow, and to inspire us and each other. The Henkaa brand was started locally in Toronto, we proudly manufacture domestically in Canada and our sales have grown exponentially on a global scale. We are currently looking for a recent graduate to join our talented team as a UI/UX designer and take part in our quest to become the dominant vendor in the convertible fashion market. Check us out at www.henkaa.com!


position summary

Are you a brilliant problem solver, quick learner, self starter and excellent communicator who can embrace our dynamic culture and is eager to be a part of something really big? As the UI/UX Designer,  you will define the customer experience, including online, email and mobile touch points to support Henkaa’s strategies and goals. You will build, enhance and improve UI flows. The UI/UX Designer is experienced in end-to-end user experience design, has a keen understanding of interaction design patterns/trends and understands the importance of strong effective UX design and how it impacts user experience, loyalty and overall customer satisfaction.

The position duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Take ownership of the overall site usability – development, assessment and communication of website usage
• Conceptualize, design and enhance user interaction designs from concept to go-live including page layout, online content, user interface graphics, icons, color schemes and content
• Design for a variety of platforms focusing first on the web browser
• Understand desired customer experience and produce innovative designs, interactions and flows to improve overall experience
• Manage usability testing for prototypes and gather feedback for iterations of design
• Analyze site metrics, drive usability testing and recommend changes
• Providing information to management by assembling and summarizing data, preparing reports, making presentations of finding, analysis, and recommendations.
• Define how people interact with our consumer sites
• Brainstorm, research, wireframe, design and refine user experiences
• Work with the team prototyping, designing and building new features
• Develop and perform usability sessions with consumers
• Implement designs and fully code applications front to back end using JavaScript, CSS and HTML

does this sound like you?

• At least 3-5 years of experience in computer interaction, usability and user interface design best practices
• Proficiency in design tools: CSS and dynamic HTML and Adobe Suite Master (Fireworks, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver)
• Experienced with responsive design methodologies
• Ability to learn and adapt Usability and human factors Passionate about social product design
• Strong organizational skills and an acute attention to detail

At Henkaa, we are constantly changing and adapting as we continually strive to make our company better and to provide a great, challenging and creative experience for our employees and customers alike. If you believe you would be a great fit in our growing company and would thrive in this role, then we want to hear from you!

www.henkaa.com/careers

Please include a cover letter, resume, portfolio and salary expectations with your application.

We thank all candidates for applying, but only short listed candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in Henkaa!