General Purpose:
We are looking for UI/UX designer with understanding of UX best practices for desktop, web, or mobile applications (desktop preferred).
Position Summary, Responsibilities and Expectations:
- Be able to understand user needs, behaviors, and preferences, provide competitors' reviews, and find the pros and cons of their products.
- Experience in creation of wireframes and prototypes to visualize and understand possible corner cases before design implementation. Be able to use and maintain already created design guidelines.
- Designing visual elements, including typography, color schemes, icons, and images, to create an aesthetically pleasing and cohesive user interface using the must-have tools mentioned earlier.
- Defining how users interact with a product through the design of interactive elements such as buttons, forms, menus, etc., understand the difference among different UI elements and their states.
- Create scalable designs that provide a consistent user experience across different screen or window sizes and proportions, using responsive design principles.
- Be able to estimate a task and meet the estimates provided, managing time effectively to ensure project deadlines are met.
- Collaborate with other team members, including developers, product managers, QAs, and designers. Be able to take on work that has already begun but isn't finished.
- Be attentive to detail to ensure the design is polished and bug-free, with consistent spacing, alignment, and visual hierarchy.
Essential Skills and Experience:
The candidate must have at least 3 years of professional experience in UI design for customer facing applications and consumer software solutions.
Must have requirements and tools:
- Strong skills in Figma;
- Ability to support big projects, and create dynamic prototypes;
- Knowledge of UI/UX for Windows and Mac desktop, or Web apps.
Ideal candidate additional requirements:
- Motion design skills, UI animation;
- Illustration skills;
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop (raster image editing, image formats, and image retouching);
- At least one desktop application in the portfolio.