Job details
We are looking for an experienced and talented UI designer to design and shape unique, user-centric products and experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience working in agile teams, with developers, UX designers, and copywriters. You will be able to make deliberate design decisions and to translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with developers, copywriters, and UX designers.
- Create, improve and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods.
- Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.) as well as user testing and validation.
- Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards.
- Effectively communicate your designs to developers and other key stakeholders.
- Address product, marketing, and business needs.
- Conduct industry research and stay up-to-date on best practices, competitor UI designs, and emerging technologies.
- Conduct, observe and analyze usability testing sessions.
- Develop consistent, intuitive architectures.
- Support the QA team to make sure features are implemented as intended.
Experience and skills:
- Three or more years of experience and proven track record.
- An exceptional design portfolio with a proven record of translating insight to design
- Experience as a UI Visual Designer with UX/CX skills and experience as well as design systems
- Ability to speak about your designs with clarity and conviction
- Strong understanding of how to effectively employ the design processes
- Experience working in an Agile environment with design sprints
- Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc.
- Knowledge and comfort working with wireframes, motion graphics, and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, UXPin, Quartz.
- Understanding of basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3 Javascript.
- Creative ideas with a problem-solving mindset.
- Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it.
- Techincal knowledge in the following:
- Working knowledge of responsive design and grid principles.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Sketch (required)
- Knowledge of HTML5, InVision, and CSS (preferred, but not required)
- Strong typography, layout, and visual design skills.
- Working knowledge of industry tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, InVision, Sketch.
- Working knowledge of the ideation and creation of UI design deliverables: Sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, lo-fi and hi-fi layouts, prototypes.
