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19 people are interested
User Experience Designers at Code for San Jose
ORGANIZATION: Code for America
Please visit the new page to apply.
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19 people are interested
About Code for San Jose:
- Code for San Jose (CFSJ) is an all-volunteer powered organization.
- We are a chapter of Code for America.
- As a chapter, we focus on civic innovation and government technology in San Jose, Silicon Valley, and across the country.
- You do not have to be located in San Jose, California in order to volunteer with us.
- We welcome everyone interested in solving community problems through technology, user experience design/research, and community partnerships.
- Our mission is to make community services more transparent, accessible, and equitable by collaborating with local government and other community-based organizations on civic projects.
- We have over 60 active volunteers with over 8 active projects.
- Our leadership team consists of 9 other directors, 2 executive directors and 18 project leaders.
- As a group, we meet every other Thursday at 6:30 PM PST to sync up and work on projects.
- All of our events are posted on meetup.
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We have 2 Projects needing User Experience Designer volunteers:
1. Code for San Jose's inaugural Inclusive Product Week event:
- Estimated time commitment: 6-10 hours per week
- This role’s goal
- Help design the Inclusive Product Week landing page to help ensure that there's a professional front door for prospective attendees, speakers, and sponsors.
- The site is built on Squarespace and does not require coding or development knowledge.
- This role’s responsibilities:
- Help build the website frontend, Content: Work alongside marketing team and volunteers to create the best site experience.
- What tools are used for this role?
- User Personas
- Journey Mapping
- Information Architecture Diagrams
- SWOT analysis
- Miro
- Figma
2. City of Seattle's CiviForm Project:
- Estimated time commitment: 4-8 hours per week
- This role’s goal:
- Looking for an accessibility-minded Designer who loves forms!
- A full-time team of Google.org Fellows are supporting the City of Seattle to build CiviForm, a responsive web application that will be accessible to users and their Trusted Intermediaries to help streamline applications to civic discount programs.
- This role’s responsibilities
- UX Research: Design the structure of a usability study
- UX Research: Conduct a usability study
- Project management: Check in with partners regularly
- Product Leadership: Analyze the market space
- Visual Design: Create low-fidelity mocks
- Visual Design: Create high-fidelity mocks
- Visual Design: Iterate and create a cohesive Information Architecture
- What tools are used for this role?
- Usability Studies / Interviews
- User Personas
- Journey Mapping
- Low Fidelity Mocks
- High Fidelity Mocks
- Information Architecture Diagrams
- Miro
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How to get started:
- Please join our Slack organization using this link: https://bit.ly/3f78NML
- After you join Slack, someone from the CFSJ leadership team will connect with you via Slack about how to get started and what your next steps are.
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Find more information about CFSJ:
- A list of our active projects can be found in this slide deck: https://bit.ly/3kwpkM5
- Our website: https://www.codeforsanjose.org
- Our meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/code-for-san-jose
More opportunities with Code for America
3 ReviewsNo additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Code for America
Location:
972 Mission St, 5th floor, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, US
Mission Statement
Government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. We believe government at all levels can and should work well for all people. We use insights and ideas from real people to guide us to real solutions that break down barriers to meet community needs and improve government in meaningful ways. Let’s make it work for everyone.
Description
Code for America is committed to building a team as diverse as the nation we serve. We’re made up of people-centered problem solvers: technologists, advocates, storytellers, and organizers from many different backgrounds and communities around the country. We merge the best parts of technology, nonprofit, and government.
We believe government at all levels can and should work well for everyone- and the mindful use of technology makes it possible.
We’re known for building digital tools, but the work doesn’t stop there. We seek to transform government by showing what’s possible when communities are included in policy and service design. We use insights and ideas from real people to guide us to real solutions that break down barriers to meet community needs and improve government in meaningful ways.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
July 24, 2021
SKILLS
- Computer Science
- Web Design / UX
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 4-10 hours per week.