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Openwork is currently assisting Harris County in their search to fill a 6 month temporary Web Developer position. This is a hybrid position with one or two days on site the other days are remote.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and develop user interface features, site animation, and special-effects elements.
- Work with business stakeholders to define UI/UX and branding requirements for departmental websites and web applications
- Work to improve the usability, usefulness, and desirability of Web sites in collaboration with graphic designers, product managers, engineering staff and other Web designers.
- Work with a project team of Web Developers, providing hands-on implementation of the UI design elements with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Conduct user studies, design and perform usability tests, create prototypes, and provide ad hoc user interface consulting to developers and business stakeholders
- Contribute to the design group's efforts to enhance the appeal of the organization's online offerings.
- Design and build interactive responsive websites on various web content management platforms - entire lifecycle from inception to deployment
- Contribute to content creation and editing as needed for website delivery projects
- Perform other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum of 4 years work experience as a web designer/developer including
- Hands on coding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, etc. Frameworks such as Bootstrap, Angular, etc. are fine; however, the candidate must be able to write HTML and CSS from scratch
- Producing prototypes of UI designs for team and customer review.
- Demonstrable experience with responsive web design (both design and implementation).
- Experience design building websites using different web content management systems, such as DNN, SharePoint, WordPress, etc.
- Experience designing websites for SEO compliance
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Sketch, Balsamiq, Axure, InVision,
- Familiarity/experience working with WCAG 2.0 standards.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Must be comfortable recommending alternative approaches.
- Must be comfortable working individually and on teams
- Candidate will be asked to provide a portfolio or sampling of prior work with specific focus on UIand UX aspects.
PREFERENCES:
- Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio (2013 or beyond)
- Experience in an agile development environment
- Experience working with .NET developers, modifying HTML and applying CSS to their C# coded projects.
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