Description:
The client is looking for a UI/UX Designer II.
Will close to submissions on 12/8/2025 at 4:00PM CST.
Top Required Skills and Years' Experience:
- Experience creating low-fidelity wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes to visualize and test design concepts at least 3 years
- Skills in writing clear and concise user-friendly text for interfaces at least 3 years
- Experience in conducting user research, gathering qualitative and quantitative data, and analyzing it to inform design decisions along with creating user personas, user flows, and journey maps to understand user needs and behaviors at least 3 years
Nice to Have Skills:
- Experience in designing with WCAG accessibility guidelines in mind
- Ability to clearly articulate design choices, present ideas, and work effectively with various teams (developers, clients, stakeholders)
- Familiarity with ASP.NET Core frameworks (including Razor), third-party UI component libraries such as Telerik UI, and front-end web technologies like HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and potentially modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular and React)
Interview Process: Teams meeting. Follow up round as necessary.
Duration of the Contract: 6/30/2026, likely to extend on a multi-year basis
Onsite or Remote: Candidates must be CURRENT WI residents. No relocation is allowed. This position will work mostly remote (from within the state of WI). However, the selected hire should plan to come onsite a few times each month on average, as project needs dictate.
Project details: This position is responsible for designing, helping to develop, and maintaining the UI/UX for the rebuilding of Wisconsin's statewide voter registration system called WisVote, on .NET Core framework.
This position is responsible for designing, helping to develop, and maintaining the UI/UX for the
rebuilding of Wisconsin's statewide voter registration system called WisVote, on .NET Core
framework. Wis Vote serves as the state's central database of voter and election information as well
as the primary tool for local election officials to administer elections. This position is responsible for
creating intuitive, efficient, and accessible designs that meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards and align
usability and security requirements, while maintaining the overall structure and integrity familiar to
system users. This position works collaboratively with developers and WisVote elections specialists
to translate functional needs into user-friendly designs, conduct accessibility testing, and ensure the
rebuilt application provides a consistent, responsive experience across devices and assistive
technologies.
This position requires compliance with the agency's timekeeping system to ensure that tasks
performed qualify under federal funding guidelines or that work representing State initiatives is
tracked contemporaneously and is properly accounted for using State funds.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Serve as a member of the agency's information technology team and ensure all UI/UX of
the WisVote system meets all requirements and works effectively.
1. Develop and maintain a high-level working knowledge of all elections laws governing
responsibilities of state and local election officials and voters, as it relates to information
technology systems.
2. With guidance from developers, the project manager, and the IT Director, gather information
from subject matter experts to design the UI/UX of the software as it functions for our WisVote
application.
3. Have excellent communication skills to articulate design choices, present ideas, and to
collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams to bridge the gap between
business and technical sides of the Wis Vote application.
4. Write clear and concise user-friendly text for interfaces and provide design recommendations
based on long-term IT organization strategy.
5. Design and help develop enterprise level applications and custom integration solutions
including major enhancements and interface, functions, and features.
6. Act as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent within the organization as it
relates to the UI/UX of the WisVote application.
7. Create low-fidelity wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes to visualize and test design concepts.
8. Conduct user research, gather qualitative and quantitative data, and analyze it to inform design decisions.
9. Create user personas, user flows, and journey maps to understand user needs and behaviors.
10. Ability to use Telerik UI.
11. Use front-end web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/jQuery, and potentially
modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, Vue.js).
12. Design applications that are accessible to users with disabilities, adhering to relevant accessibility guidelines as laid out in the WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
Pay rate: $50/hr on W2.
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