Kforce has a client that is seeking a UI/UX Designer in Naperville, IL. Summary: Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively. Essential Functions: * Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns * Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs * Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams * Keep up with evolving design trends, technologies, and best practices * Contribute visual styles to Company's design system; Maintain and update our pattern library, living style guide and sketch component library * Conduct user and competitive research * Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements * Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes * Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs * Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use * Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams * Stay current with UX, visual design, and front-end technologies