UX Designer

Job summary

Dechert, LLP is a global specialist law firm focused on high end legal work. The UX Designer is responsible for creating intuitive, user-centered digital experiences for attorneys, legal professionals, and business-services teams across the firm’s portfolio of applications, AI-enabled solutions, and workflow automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• and user insights into engaging, accessible, and efficient digital experiences that improve productivity and adoption.
• The role ensures solutions are designed around user needs while maintaining consistency with the firm’s design standards, accessibility
• and security expectations.
• ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
• Collaborate with attorneys, practice groups, and business-services teams to understand user goals, workflows, pain points, and opportunities for digital improvement.
• Conduct user research through interviews, observations, surveys, workshops, and usability testing to validate design decisions.
• Create user personas, journey maps, service blueprints, workflow diagrams, and information architecture to guide solution development.
• Design wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity user interfaces for web applications, AI assistants, portals, dashboards, and workflow solutions.
• Partner with AI engineers to design intuitive AI experiences, including conversational interfaces, prompt flows, review workflows, confidence indicators, and citation experiences.
• Design user experiences that incorporate human oversight, transparency, and responsible AI principles.
• Work closely with Full Stack Solutions Engineers to ensure designs are feasible, technically sound, and implemented according to specifications.
• Develop reusable UI components and contribute to the firm’s design system to promote consistency across applications.

Responsibilities

• as needed.
• KNOWLEDGE:
• User-centered design methodologies and Design Thinking.
• User research techniques including interviews, surveys, contextual inquiry, usability testing, and heuristic evaluation.
• Information architecture, interaction design, visual hierarchy, responsive design, and interface design principles.
• Accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.
• AI user experience concepts, including conversational interfaces, prompt design, explainability, human-in-the-loop workflows, and responsible AI.
• Agile and Kanban software development methodologies.
• Enterprise software design and complex workflow applications.
• Legal industry workflows, document management, knowledge management, and professional-services technology (preferred).

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