UI/UX Designer

Immediate Joiner Preferred

Job Summary: We are seeking a talented and passionate UI/UX Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for gathering and evaluating user requirements, illustrating design ideas, and creating intuitive, functional, and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces. You will work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure that our products meet user needs and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

User Experience (UX) Focus:

• User Research: Conduct in-depth user research through various methods (interviews, surveys, usability testing, competitive analysis) to understand user needs, behaviors, pain points, and motivations.
• Persona Creation: Develop user personas and scenarios to represent different user types and their goals.
• Information Architecture (IA): Design and organize content and navigation structures (sitemaps, user flows) to ensure intuitive and logical user journeys.
• Wireframing & Prototyping: Create low-fidelity wireframes and high-fidelity interactive prototypes to visualize and test design concepts, user flows, and interactions.
• Usability Testing: Plan and conduct usability tests, gather feedback, analyze results, and iterate on designs based on user insights and data.
• Problem Solving: Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g., responsiveness, usability challenges) and propose effective solutions.
• Accessibility: Ensure designs are accessible and inclusive, adhering to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and other relevant standards.

User Interface (UI) Focus:

• Visual Design: Design engaging and visually appealing user interfaces, including layouts, typography, color palettes, iconography, and other graphic elements.
• Branding & Consistency: Maintain and ensure consistency with established brand guidelines, style standards (fonts, colors, imagery), and design systems across all digital products.
• Interactive Elements: Design and build interactive UI components such as buttons, menus, forms, widgets, and animations for a seamless user experience.
• Responsive Design: Create designs that adapt seamlessly across various devices and screen sizes (desktop, tablet, mobile).
• Graphic Design: Develop original graphic designs, images, sketches, and tables as needed.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, marketing teams, and other stakeholders to gather requirements, align on product goals, and ensure design feasibility and successful implementation.
• Presentation & Advocacy: Present and defend design concepts and key deliverables to internal teams and stakeholders, articulating design decisions and their rationale based on user-centered principles.
• Feedback Integration: Actively seek, receive, and integrate feedback from various sources to refine designs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proven professional experience as a UI/UX Designer or in a similar role, with a strong portfolio showcasing previous design projects (web/mobile applications preferred).
• Proficiency in industry-standard design and wireframing tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and design thinking methodologies.
• Experience with user research methods and usability testing.
• Knowledge of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus, to understand technical feasibility.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Detail-oriented with a strong aesthetic sense.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with animation/motion design.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience designing for specific industries (e.g., e-commerce, SaaS, healthcare).

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person