User Experience Designer

Description

The User Experience (UX) Designer (Web Designer II) is a member of the Libraries’ UX team and is dedicated to improving the digital experience for library users. They partner with colleagues to conduct UX research, identify themes and insights, and recommend changes to library websites, digital products, and services. They enjoy and have experience designing user-friendly products for real people, creating prototypes, iterating on solutions, and thriving in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

As a UX generalist with digital expertise, this person loves design challenges and is dedicated to improving the experience and success of UA students, faculty, and staff. They enjoy creative problem-solving and collaboration in an agile manner.

They serve as Website Product Manager for the Libraries, providing oversight to several (mostly Drupal-based) websites and ensuring that colleagues make user-centered content and design decisions. They chair the library’s Web Strategy Group, the cross-departmental team that makes decisions and recommends priorities for the library's public-facing web presence. They serve on the Web Support team to address web requests from library employees. They also identify ways to improve our web-based library tools for search, discovery, and content management.