Product Designer

Who We Are 🌟 

We are a company where the ‘HOW’ of building software is just as important as the ‘WHAT’. Embracing Software Craftsmanship values and eXtreme Programming Practices, we create well-crafted products for our clients. We partner with large organizations to help modernize their legacy code bases and work with startups to launch MVPs, scale or as extensions of their team to efficiently operationalize their ideas. We love to work with folks who are passionate about creating exceptional software, are continuous learners, and are painstakingly fussy about quality. 🚀 

Our Values 💡 

These are the guiding principles for everything we do at Incubyte, both within and outside of our project work: 

• Relentless Pursuit of Quality with Pragmatism 
• Extreme Ownership 
• Proactive Collaboration 
• Active Pursuit of Mastery 
• Effective Feedback 
• Client Success 

We are seeking a talented UX/UI Craftsperson with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces, ensuring a seamless user experience from end to end. You should be excited about crafting a great user experience and be open-minded with an unquenchable thirst for new approaches and solutions. 

What You’ll Be Doing 💼 

• Designing and prototyping user interfaces for web and mobile applications, considering user needs and business objectives. 
• Collaborating with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into design solutions. 
• Conducting user research, usability testing, and gathering feedback to iterate and improve designs. 
• Creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes to communicate design concepts and interactions effectively. 
• Optimizing designs for performance, accessibility, and responsiveness across various devices and screen sizes. 
• Keeping up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UX/UI design and development. 
• Providing guidance and mentorship to junior designers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team. 
• Experience with User research and Testing. 

Skills You Need to Succeed in This Role 🌟 

Most Important: Integrity of character, diligence, and the commitment to do your best 💪 

Must Have: 

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in UX/UI design with a strong portfolio showcasing your design process and projects. 
• Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, or similar. 
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices. 
• Experience with front-end development technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular. 
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Slack). 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to present and defend design decisions to stakeholders and handle client interactions. 
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced agile environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously. 
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences. 
• Demonstrable UX/UI design skills with a strong portfolio (Applicants without a portfolio will not be considered). 

Responsibilities:

• Conduct user research
• Create wireframes and prototypes
• Develop visually appealing designs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Conduct usability testing

Qualifications:

• Proven UI/UX design experience
• Strong portfolio
• Proficient in design tools (e.g., Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma)
• Understanding of user-centered design principles

Why Join Us:

• Exciting projects
• Collaborative work environment
• Professional growth opportunities
• Competitive salary and benefits

Roles and responsibilities:-

• Work closely with the cross-functional teams and collaborate with product managers, developers, marketing team, and designers
• Execute a strategic vision at the onset of a project and work with the team to deliver on this vision at every step of the design and development process.
• Own and manage multiple rapid research, design, and prototyping projects
• Manage design work across numerous initiatives through successful project execution, tracking, and resourcing
• Lead new creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices; drive the direction, style, and methodology of design and accessibility
• Review work and share feedback with design team members

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Extensive experience as UX designer
• Experience in leading a team of designers
• Good exposure to in interactive design and information architecture
• Extensive understanding of *design principles, typography, and color theory.
• Expertise in using popular software like*Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently
• Experience designing and managing UX that bridges multi-platforms including mobile apps and web-based applications
• Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies
• Team player with good communication skills and the ability to think out of the box

Your role as a designer is to solve UX problems with design in collaboration with a team on multiple verticals and to focus on designing the user interface based on research, user flow, and wireframing. A key element of your role is to get requirements from stakeholders and communicate the designs to stakeholders, designers, and developers, and collaborate with them.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements and user stories into effective designs.
• Create UX specifications, Personas, Storyboards, Scenarios, and Flowcharts.
• Identify creative ways to solve UX problems.
• Plan the look and feel of websites, web apps, and mobile apps, from the layouts, menus, and drop-down options to the colors and fonts.
• Communicate design and interaction ideas effectively by creating wireframes and Prototypes.
• Create Pattern Library and Style Guide for the projects.
• Collaboration with designers and developers to create intuitive, user-friendly apps and websites.
• To Identify, analyze and diagnose UX and UI flaws in design.
• Mentoring Junior UX UI designers and improving internal processes.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2+ years of experience.
• Can lead and drive younger UX UI designers.
• A strong portfolio of UX UI design works on both the web and mobile platforms.
• Experience working with tech development teams.
• Good communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate your ideas, designs, and suggestions to Stakeholders and the Team.
• A strong team player who can work effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of Figma.
• Familiarity with other design software and technologies (such as Adobe XD and Adobe Creative Suite etc. ).
• A keen eye for aesthetics and details.

About First Principles

We are a Tech Holding Company and our portfolio companies generate millions in revenue. What is unique about FirstPrinciples is that most of our companies remain controlled and majority owned by First Principles and its team members rather than by external investors. We are proud that our design team builds world class products from India. https://firstprinciples.io/">https://firstprinciples.io/

About this Role
We are looking for an experienced UI designer to design functional and appealing web and mobile app designs, focus on user-centric products and experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience working in agile teams, with developers, UX designers, and copywriters.
You will be able to make deliberate design decisions and to translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction.

You will be responsible for:

• Creating User Interface Design, components, wireframes, prototypes, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas in all design contexts.
• Continually keeping yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in industry’s standards.
• Following material design and design system principles.
• Focussing on design contexts, consistency, usability, brand personality, and conversational design.
• Following standard of quality design, communicate with stackholders, manage time and tasks, create original and own design.

• 3 years of experience in user interface and graphic design
• Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, logo and branding design, user interface design, visual illustrations, infographics, flyers/newsletters, and components design.
• Knowledge of gif animation, UI style guidelines, branding design
  Good understanding of design visualization i.e. color theory, visual weight, typography, iconography, patterns, grid system, responsive design etc.
  Experience using tools such as Figma, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, Aftereffects.
• Knowledge of responsive grid systems.
• Creative ideas with a problem-solving mindset and are open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it.
• Excellent communication with internal & external stakeholders

1) Design clear engaging graphic communications for the app, social media and print - this includes UI/ UX, event webpages, brand promotional items, in-app games, etc. 

2) Illustrates the concept by designing a rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type, size and style, and related aesthetic concepts.

3) Work closely with operations, marketing, and content team to translate their messaging concepts into graphic/visual material

4) Design & create graphics images, GIFs & Ads, etc. for Social Media Platforms.

5) Grow online social networks by acquiring a new fan-base and increasing interactions via designs.

6) Understand the requirement and develop quality graphics, Work on all aspects of design.

7) Should have experience of leading creative/Design team of Min. 7. 

Other Requirements:

1) Should have excellent knowledge of Video/Audio and Live streaming applications.

2) Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design

3) Knowledge of Animate CC and After Effects is a plus.