UI/UX Specialist

Job description

The role shapes, designs, and continuously improves user experiences across KAUST’s IT services and touch points. Responsibilities include defining and maintaining UI/UX principles, guidelines, and best practices, reviewing interfaces for compliance, conducting user research (interviews, surveys, observations) and translating insights into personas, journey maps, and task flows, designing intuitive, accessible interfaces, wireframes, prototypes, and interaction flows, and performing usability testing. Collaboration with service owners, developers, and business analysts ensures user‑centered design, adherence to WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards, branding guidelines, and design systems. Provides feedback to maintain quality and consistency, advocates for inclusivity and fairness, and facilitates workshops and co‑design sessions with stakeholders

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of human-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and accessibility standards
• Excel
• Git
• Graphic design
• Figma
• attention to detail

Skills