Freelance UX / UI Designers

at 1THING

Posted by Varun Gandhi

About us f1Studioz (registered as f1Circle Designs Pvt Ltd) is a Hyderabad based UX Design company incorporated in 2012. We specialise in Enterprise UX Design focused on creating awesome Mobile and Web User Experiences. Whether it’s complex design, deep research, or a new startup idea, we work with our client partners to take on any experience goal. Our core philosophy is simplicity, agility and empathy. What we are best at f1Studioz provides a multitude of design services, including interaction design, visual design, and UI Development. We also design for multiple devices and platforms, including the web, smart mobile devices, and elsewhere. We aim to create compelling, usable, and intuitive designs for any platform that best fits the underlying experience. Clientele We work with some of the leading enterprise companies like TheHomeDepot, HDFC, WestJet, CognitiveScale, Veraction and InsideView. Achievement f1Studioz was core UX partner for DarwinBox, a new age HRMS platform that won “Best HR Startup” in the country in 2017. UX is one of the significant differentiators that helped them to grab the dominant position. f1Studioz helped CognitiveScale (the leading cognitive cloud company based in Austin) bag customers like P&G, Barclays, MD Anderson Cancer Care with our simple UX solutions for complex mission critical AI use cases. f1Studioz helped plenty of startups like fyle, CustomFurnish, Medplus Mart, Meraevents to raise their first round of institutional investments. Leadership Team The leadership team at f1Studioz is a unique combination of UX and Product Management expertise, and past experience working with companies like Oracle, InsideView, Cords, Infosys etc. The team has studied from top schools in India like IIT Bombay, XLRI etc.

GrabOnRent is a young startup that aims to disrupt sharing economy in India by creating an alternative way to consume products, other than buying. At the heart of the company, resides a group of passionate individuals creating awesome experiences for its consumers by making a variety of products available on rent like never before. We seek a customer obsessed, data driven and an entrepreneur-spirited individual to join our growing team to challenge and solve some of the interesting problems for our customers. If you want to operate at a startup speed, create intuitive solutions to some of the underlying consumer problems and build a service which is loved by more than a million customers, GrabOnRent might just be the place for you. Job Responsibilities Basics: Create customer journeys, Wireframes, Navigation Flows, Wireframes and UI mock-ups on a variety of projects for both internal and external users. Impact: Work with development teams to implement interaction improvements, new features for various projects and see your work coming to life. Understand Need: Analyze user behavior on Mobile and Web, identify what users need (not what they want!) and identify potential solutions for a better customer experience. Leadership: Advocate for the customer and user-centered design in a corporate environment. Establish best practices and methodologies on how designs are communicated and implemented. Guidance: Work with project management teams to help establish priorities based on project goals and user needs Empathy with Customers: You always try to understand what customers try to achieve, and you want to help them get there. Data Driven: You don’t make design decisions because it’s trendy or popular on Dribbble. You make decisions because they’ve been shown to be effective and they cater to the customers you’re designing for. Deep Understanding: You understand the complexity of a digital product, particularly information-dense products and cross-platform behavior. You understand a good design is not just what it looks like on the surface. Eager to learn: You are eager to learn and grow as a T-shaped person. You love wearing different hats and juggling different tasks. Things like user experience, web typography, living style guides, and/or CSS tricks excite you. Basic Qualifications Preliminary Education (B. Des/ M. Des) in user experience or interface design Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in Interface Design, Interaction Design, or Information Architecture, in online shopping/payments space A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centered design solutions An innate capacity for creating engaging, highly usable designs and layouts Fluency in best practices for Information Architecture and Interaction Design Ability to quickly turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups in an iterative environment A strong awareness of common Usability methods and principles Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization A clean sense of design aesthetics, and a natural propensity towards simplification over complication An aptitude and honed intuition for tasteful, visual design details Experience working with metrics-driven analytics and A-B testing schemes to validate design assumptions Experience building functional mock-ups with tools like MarvelApp and Invision Experience with coding and development aspects of software development a plus

We would like to introduce our company as a versatile and enthusiastic team of go-getters. We have currently 3 verticals namely Partitoe (Party Planning), Kiddy Diaries (Online Kids Magazine) and The Kiddy Hub (e-commerce website for kids products). You can read more about our verticals below: • Partitoe – www.partitoe.com • Kiddy Diaries – www.kiddydiaries.com • The Kiddy Hub – www.thekiddyhub.com As a graphic Designer for the company you will be doing the following: Prepares work to be accomplished by gathering information and materials. Plans concept by studying information and materials. Illustrates concept by designing rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type size and style, and related aesthetic concepts. Obtains approval of concept by submitting rough layout for approval. Prepares finished copy and art by operating typesetting, printing, and similar equipment; purchasing from vendors.

Expert Visual Experience Professional Must have: - Has demonstrated leadership skills: Expert in UCD process. Has conducted UX workshop to educate UCD process and UED methodolody to customer staff (including, CMOs, Product managers) as required. - Driving design projects for the customer along with team of senior UX and VD talent on team. - Good command on words (verbal and written) - Fire to excel in career (not just someone who has created wireframes or a JOB) - Provided example of business debates with customer (Critical point - not just design debates) - Gone out of the way to ensure customer delight (not just completing project on time or delivering wireframes) Job Description: Senior Visual Experience Designer * Looking for SMART, SELF DRIVEN, CONFIDENT design comrades who have it in them to anchor large design engagements * - Ideal candidate get to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. Applicants must have substantial experience informing designs through critical design thinking, rationalizing for B2B or B2C systems, websites, mobile devices, and handheld. - Willingness to travel and anchor client UX engagements for extensive duration (6 months to 1 yr +) is a must. Responsibilities: - Work independently with the client (multiple stakeholders) and YUJ Designs’ User - Experience Strategist to diagnose business pain points and users’ needs - Innovate visual design strategies with changing market trends - Have exceptional attention to details and user interactions – design a robust visual system that represents highest levels of quality (wow factor), efficiency, consistency, scalability (design that works across platforms) and innovation. - Present design decisions to the stakeholders that are backed up by strong usability principles and rationale - Create standards, style guides, specification documents to support visual design system that gets delivered to the customer. Project co-ordination, management with ability to effectively communicate at all levels Must haves - Candidates must be high-level thinkers that can dive deep into a specific design challenge and come up with alternative solutions that are not only usable but look ‘wow’. - They must have experience working successfully within interdisciplinary project teams and collaborating with business units, product managers, interaction designers, user researchers, content managers and prototype engineers. - They must prove mastery of visual design principles as they apply to the creation of large-scale web user interfaces, and practical knowledge of user centered design methodologies. - Candidates must have working knowledge of information architecture, navigation models and interaction design principles. - In this position you must be a clear and effective presenter in order to influence important design decisions and maintain credibility. - Candidates need to be organized, have excellent time management skills and be highly detail oriented. They must be able to manage their own time in an efficient manner while receiving strategic and tactical direction from project stakeholders. - Must possess excellent interpersonal communication, management, negotiation, presentation and client relations skills - Minimum 5+ years of solid industry experience. About YUJ Designs YUJ Designs is in the business of informing design strategies by blended understanding of business goals and users’ needs. This ensures both, a delightful product experience and a positive impact on their customer’s top line. YUJ Designs work with an objective of understanding what the user really needs. This helps their clients decide what investments should be made to design and develop certain features and functions. So basically, it’s all about guaranteeing ROI. Advantages of this approach - Early start by defining the design goals to inform development - Set measurable usability goals - Iterate, evolve design and test it – guarantee of development investments - Increased productivity – focused and faster development efforts - Higher quality solutions – larger buy in - Faster time-to-market – confident move http://www.yujdesigns.com Founded in the Year: 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAkAa_Bz8g Founders Samir Chabukswar, CEO Prasadd Bartakke, Chief of UX Design and Research https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasaddbartakke Client Base YUJ Designs works with clients across the globe and all over India. They are working with clients in the US, Canada, UK and major cities in India - Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, and Hyderabad. To know the list better check the link www.yujdesigns.com/portfolio/clients/ YUJ Designs Team and Culture: They have a fantastic team of designers working for them at key locations, have a look at http://www.yujdesigns.com/about/

UI designer Our products are used by one-man startups to Fortune 500 companies, by companies like LinkedIn to organizations like NASA, by retail companies in Africa to banks in Europe. All in all, by 27,000 customers and 850,000 developers in 120 countries. And working at that scale involves solving complicated problems. The kind of problems that separate the boys from the men. At FusionCharts, we follow a simple but vital premise in the design group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. We’re looking for an exceptionally talented UI designer to define and execute against a big vision - Make data more humane. We’re on a mission to make visualisation the primary language of today’s internet.

 Responsibilities * Design one or more of FusionCharts’ data visualisation products * Create a look consistent with all of FusionCharts while pleasing our users * Communicate effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and designs effectively * Present the user interface visually so information is easy to read, easy to understand and easy to find. Qualifications: * At least 2 years of practical experience at designing appealing yet functional user interfaces * Experience in implementing visual design systems across a range of platforms in an iterative software development environment. * A portfolio that demonstrates strong design skills and describes your process * Expert knowledge of industry-standard design tools (Sketch, Adobe CC) * Working knowledge of frontend technologies is a plus


 P.S. A designer’s resume without portfolio is like a coca-cola gone flat. Please include a link to your best work with your application :)

Company Description Impact Guru is a Harvard incubated fintech company - an online fundraising or crowdfunding platform that enables individuals and corporates to give to social causes in India. Impact Guru is India’s largest crowdfunding platform having raised Rs 329 crores for various causes since inception. We were incubated at Harvard Innovation Lab Venture Initiation Program, USA and PACT Social Enterprise Incubator at Impact Hub (Singapore). Impact Guru has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and San Francisco. Our platform was inaugurated by Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, Minister of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India in 2015. Impact Guru has already partnered with nonprofits such as World Vision India, Oxfam, SOS Children's Village, Habitat for Humanity; CSR departments of Tata, Godrej, and Wockhardt; impact focused organizations such as Dalberg and Asha Impact; international Indian community organizations such as TiE in a relatively short span of time. You can see how we helps the social sector through crowdfunding via a 2 minute video that can be seen here: We were recently featured on CNBC Young Turks, which can be seen here Our Advisory Board includes: • Harvard Business School Prof. Ramana Nanda, expert in finance • Gaurav Gupta, Regional Director for Asia, Dalberg, social sector expert • Sam Raymond, lead crowdfunding strategist at World Bank • Calvin Zhang, Managing Director, JPMorgan Asia Pacific • Anthony Oundjian, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group • David Back, co-founder of Zoomcar, a Sequoia portfolio company • Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, CEO of Wockhardt Foundation Media Mentions: CNBC TV18 Young Turks, Times of India, Economic Times, YourStory, SocialStory,HuffingtonPost,ScoopWhoop, Harvard Business Review. The Team: Impact Guru is led by an experienced management team with strong private, public, and social sector experience led by Wharton and Harvard alumni. The Impact Guru is also mentored on various topics by global experts, including VC funded entrepreneurs, Managing Directors at J.P.Morgan and BCG, and experts in crowdfunding from the World Bank. Team page – https://www.impactguru.com/team Advisory Board – https://www.impactguru.com/board-of-advisors Linked In profile for our Co-Founders: Piyush Jain - CEO Khushboo Jain - COO The Culture: We are a vibrant young team located in the heart of Mumbai. Everyday work is fun, casual, and relaxed. Above all, we are passionate about creating a habit of giving back among Indians at the same time help social organisations scale their initiatives and corporates meet their CSR goals. We celebrate and seek out diversity of opinion in our team, we’re open to bold and disruptive ideas, and acknowledge and appreciate each other. We always strive for excellence and for the best solution, which is ultimately determined by the customers’ needs. We believe in our product and we use it our selves. Watch our interns talk about our culture and expériences: www.impactguru.com/intern2016

The mission of Nudg Labs is to automate B2B e-commerce. A combination of chatbots, Machine Learning, and great design is used to solve this challange.

We are looking for a talented UI Designer to create amazing user experiences. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces. Responsibilites • Work closely with the product team to conceptualise product features for web and mobile. • Communicate interaction design flows based on user journey’s to stakeholders. • Create user journeys ,user personas ,user scenarios, user stories, page flows and translate them to wireframes that meet product feature goals. • Work closely with front-end engineers to ensure the user goals are met throughout the journey. • Suggest interaction design variations to AB test various UI interactions. • Offer creative solutions to product-related design/usability challenges, and expose site usability problems. Requirements • Excellent communication skills • Lo-fi & hi-fi prototyping skills • Have contributed as a leader in design and a strong collaborator with product managers and engineers • Demonstrate experience with end-to-end product design • Have shipped product • Have cross-platform design experiences (Web, android, iOS, emails)

Niki is an artificial-intelligent based personal shopping assistant (http://niki.ai/app). Our founding team is from IIT Kharagpur, and we are looking for a Graphic Designer to join us in our Creative Team! We're looking for a Designer who: 1) Loves illustrating / cartooning / doodling like its your happy piece of cake! 2) Thinks flat with Design ;) (Yes we mean flat design and Vector Graphics) 3) Knows his/her way around Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop 4) Has creativity & strong ideation behind the graphic designs you make 5) Has a thing for Colouring & Typography 6) Who trips on Design over Caffeine! (We have unlimited coffee supply guys) That said, your Design Portfolio must speak for your work, even if it means you've worked on just a couple of things. Its a plus if: 1) You can animate graphics like a boss. 2) You can work on Print designs 3) You can make short videos

We are looking to hire graphics design intern to support our social media posts, application designs and other activities. Buzz us up if you think you have the creative ability to hook people with your design and catch their attention. In return we offer you a lot of learning, first hand experience of working with an exciting startup, flexible working hours and a small stipend based on your performance. :)