Graphic Designer

Role and Responsibilities:

·        Lead the vision of our product and consumer experiences

·        Own the end-to-end design/ UX of YouShd’s applications, design simple and clean visual UI, and create wireframes, prototypes, and pixel-perfect mocks

·        Work with the tech team to get your ideas built

·        Conduct user research, come up with user personas, both informally and in structured studies, and analyze and present findings so we all can understand our users better

·        Set the standard for what great design entails and help your team achieve that standard

·        Build and maintain a design system to achieve consistency across our applications

Skills and Experience:

·        2+ years of experience in product design

·        Work with wireframing tool of choice (Balsamiq, Pencil, Axure, Whimsical, Mockflow, etc.) to create low fidelity and high fidelity wireframes

·        Convert any wireframes into mockups using Figma, Sketch, etc.

·        Find design inspirations related to the idea proposed and do independent research

·        Demonstrated experience of leading complex projects independently under tight timelines

·        Detail orientation, execution excellence and entrepreneurial spirit

·        First-principles led problem-solving attitude

Nice to Haves:

·        Experience with frontend web or mobile development

·        Previous experience working in an Agile environment with scrums and sprints

• With the support of product managers and engineers, collect and analyze user demands. 

• To show design concepts, use storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps. 

• Menus, tabs, and widgets are examples of visual user interface components.

• Make page navigation buttons and search fields. 

• Make UI mockups and prototypes that demonstrate how websites function and look. 

• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables) 

• Internal teams and significant stakeholders should be given rough draughts to review. 

• Identify and fix user experience issues (e.g. responsiveness) 

• Make layout adjustments based on user input. Follow the requirements for typeface, color, and image style.

• High-performance reusable components and future-proof front-end frameworks.

• Create new user-facing features as well as reusable code. 

• Write efficient, performant code to achieve optimal web application performance and scalability. 

• Identify design flaws and provide attractive remedies.

• Assuring software compatibility and responsiveness across a range of screen resolutions. 

• To reach your objectives, collaborate with product managers and designers. 

Details

1. Work hours - 8 hours/day (Monday to Saturday)
2. Duration - 4 months
3. Full-time Internship

Responsibilities

1. Performing research to gather relevant information for the design.
2. Getting a good understanding of the design sensibilities/guidelines and coming up with concepts for the design based on the requirements of the client.
3. Developing creative and attractive illustrations, logos, website designs and other social designs.
4. Using Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Designer (optional), Canva (optional), Sigma (optional) for creating designs.
5. Understanding design guidelines, copywriting rules and typography concepts in order to work with the content given by the content team.
6. Improving designs based on the given feedback.
7. Ensuring projects are completed with high quality and on schedule.

Company description:

We are a startup company based out of Mohali developing mobile and web applications that changes the way people use technology. We invite you to join us in helping people.

Top Reasons to Work with Us:

• We're a small, fast-paced growing team tackling huge new challenges every day.
• Learning new concepts while working with intellectual and exceptionally talented team
• Friendly and high growth work environment
• Competitive compensation

Responsibilities

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
• Build page navigation buttons and search fields
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role
• Portfolio of design projects
• Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe.cc and InVision)
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills
• BSc in Design, Computer Science or relevant field

We are looking for an experienced and creative Senior Product Designer to join the Empuls product team!
As the product designer, you will be responsible for delivering the optimal user experience across the Empuls web and mobile apps. This is a high visibility role and has a large contribution to the overall success of the product and customer satisfaction. The role requires deep collaboration with the product, technology, marketing, and sales teams. This role might include some people management responsibilities.

• Craft detail of new and existing product features, from understanding the customer pain point to defining wireframes, high definition prototypes and finally collaborating with the technology team to navigate through constraints and build the product.
• Partner closely with our Product, Marketing, and Technology teams to understand what users need, want, and love about the product. Use the data to plan and define the optimal user experience.
• Create design systems that help with a common design language across the entire product portfolio in a distributed team.
• Aid product marketing in telling the product stories in the best way possible to help users in product adoption and onboarding.
• Build and implement processes for user testing. Take a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Mentor other designers and drive the vision for the specific domain by partnering with product owners & engineering leads

Consider yourself a good fit for this role if you have these characteristics. Don’t worry if you don’t check every item on the list below. If you have the attitude to constantly challenge and upskill yourself, you might still be a good fit.

• You are positive, creative, curious, and aren’t afraid to ask a lot of questions.
• Collaboration is exciting to you and you enjoy understanding the perspectives of others.
• You’re dedicated to your craft and want to work amongst a team that will inspire you on a daily basis.
• You have a deep knowledge of usability, almost an intuitive sense of good UI, and believe in taking a minimalist approach to design.
• You have a track record of building products from scratch and taking complete ownership of design output.
• You are OK with multi-tasking and can synthesize multiple perspectives to get the most important thing done.
• You love listening to customers, discussing strategy with colleagues, but also diving into the weeds.
• Finally, you believe that perfection in design is not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You will closely work with product management, technology, sales, and customer care teams. You will report to the VP of product management.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Requirement:

• 1 to 2 years’ experience on developing apps or games
• Passionate about games as well as creating digital assets.
• Should be understanding of current mobile platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe Creative Cloud tools etc.
• Should be fast in execution with Adobe Creative Cloud tools.
• Should be understanding of popular mobile, casual, and social games.
• Willing to work in a game product Startup company.

Why Should you Join us ?.

• Lots of learning opportunities- Free Books / Courses.
• Competitive Salary
• Free Medical Insurance for you and your family!
• Lunch on all day you order we pay 60%.
• Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times.
• Work with a super-talented team of engineers and designers.
• Casual Dress Code- Slippers, shorts, all is good!

BlackLight Games: 

At BlackLight and we bring classic game experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Store since launch.

Our real time multiplayer games are a piece of cutting-edge technology, we take pride that they are played by more than 2 million players daily. 

Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Other titles include - CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.