Digital Knowledge Product Designers (UI-UX Designers)
The Opportunity
Illumine Labs, Mumbai, is building a series of innovative digital knowledge products. These products are used for learning, education, counselling, behavioural change, etc. Some examples include e-books, counselling tools, habit-creating app, etc.
We are inviting UI-UX Designers who enjoy working with knowledge, can work with a vision, and can appreciate the technology aspects of the product - to be a part of the design & build team for assembling such digital knowledge products.
Your Role
- Rigorous thinking-through of product goals, product concept, architecture, flows, use cases, usage conditions/ constraints, etc. (in collaboration with the project team)
- Translating into interface designs and specifications for technology, and walkthroughs, communications, if any.
- Early testing with the project team & users and evolving it to a working solution.
- Collaborating with the technology team to develop a working product/ application.
- User testing with pilot groups and documentation of usage, and response to the product. Evolving the product and supporting adoption.
What will ensure that you enjoy working in Illumine & that you succeed in the role?
- You are driven by values and a love for excellence.
- You flourish in a commitment-based environment & have a habit of keeping your word (to clients and colleagues).
- You believe that client outcomes are more important than creative flourishes.
- You can work in an environment that has hard deadlines and that will challenge & push you to go beyond what you know or are comfortable with.
Who can apply
Engineers/ Architects/ Designers (or having any other background) with at least 3-4 years of experience in designing digital products.
Work at Illumine is breakthrough, innovative & challenging. Apply only if you seek challenge (not comfort & convenience) and are committed to making a real difference through your work.
About Us
Illumine is a purpose-based organization committed to nation-building. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates closely with government/ corporate/ educational institutions to unleash their people's potential and enable the collectives to find their own solutions. Our Large-Scale Interventions lead to positive and sustainable impacts on the ground.
Over the last 20 years, Illumine has designed, developed & deployed such interventions across some of the leading businesses (SBI, Tata Steel, Asian Paints, BPCL, Aditya Birla Capital, etc.), Educational institutions (Gujarat Technological University, Biju Patnaik University, IIT Delhi, 5000 CBSE schools, etc.) impacting ~42 lakh people across India.
Recent collaborations with the Capacity Building Commission, Govt. of India have led to cognitive transformation projects with the Indian Railways (for 1 lakh citizen-facing employees), Ministry of Home Affairs, and National Police Academy (for police persons in Union Territories & Delhi). There are more such prestigious projects in the pipeline that you can be a part of.
To learn more about Illumine
- Visit our websites: www.illumine.in | https://illuminefoundation.org/
- Explore our ideas: https://youtube.com/illuminelabs
- The philosophy that drives our work: https://srinivasv.com/
Subodh Popalwar
Software Engineer, Memorres
About Illumine Knowledge Resources Pvt. Ltd.
About Illumine
Illumine has three faces – Illumine Lab, Illumine Consulting and Illumine Foundation.
Illumine Lab works on developing new ideas, methods in the Knowledge and Cognitive Sciences and leverages this expertise to solve wicked problems facing society.
Illumine Consulting works on the specialized area of large-scale transformations of large organizations to help them design their future in a continuously changing world. Through our projects we have worked on enabling industry-leaders across sectors – banking, financial services, IT, FMCG, Retail, etc.
Illumine Foundation works on two nation-wide education missions to build next generation citizens in India. Through these missions 10 lakh school children and 7 lakh graduates have been impacted so far.
Illumine has, thus far, impacted 4 million people across India and across sectors.
WORKING AT ILLUMINE
- The team at Illumine is like a football team– we have no hierarchy, working dynamically with high degrees of collaboration, with multiple people taking on multiple roles to meet the outcome, and team members enabling & helping each other to achieve their individual goals as well as collective goals.
The most important aspect of envisioning Illumine as a football team is that the burden of deadlines, the glory of success and the pain of failure (if any) is shared collectively by the team and not individuals.
- Illumine has a multi-disciplinary team with people from diverse backgrounds and diverse age groups– Engineering, Management, Social Sciences and Psychology, Architects, Ethnographers, etc. Diversity of educational backgrounds and thought is deeply valued at Illumine.
About the work culture
People join Illumine with the purpose of self-actualization and making deep, long lasting contributions to society. Each person needs to integrate certain apparent dichotomies to successfully grow and contribute at Illumine. https://careers.illumine.in/consulting/work-culture/">Know more on our work culture
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