Product Designer - UI

Job Description

Our client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories. They are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, marquee investors, and industry professionals who have expertise and experience in building some of the most popular brands in the country.

What will you be doing?

• Own the solution design and user experience aspects of any project/product. This includes conducting user research through interviews, observations and other research methods & translating it into insights that are simple, and intuitive and result in delightful user experiences.

• Understands product specifications and identifies user touchpoints/ interactions through the various journeys

• Work closely with the product team to translate business requirements into user personas, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, prototypes (paper sketches to high- -fidelity), flow diagrams and finally production quality mocks for web, mobile web and apps.

•Create images and videos for our various products selling on multiple e-commerce websites.

•Producing graphic content for landing pages, page layouts, site graphics & static & banners

•Defining standards and guidelines for UI and Usability.

•Will work across different brands from fashion/BPC categories and other categories

•Suggest design solutions in the form of sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and paper/interactive prototypes.

Requirements

What will you bring?

•You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment.

•Must have the ability to work with a sense of urgency and be able to successfully navigate changing priorities

•2-3 years of experience as a visual designer

•Advanced proficiency in visual design software, such as Adobe Creative Suite's InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator or any other relevant tools

•Knowledge of 3D design and animation tools such as 3DS Max, Maya

Benefits

Why work with us?

•You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.

•You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.

•You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.

•You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike.

1. Conceptualizing visuals that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex user flows
2. Designing the visual identity of digital products.
3. Implementing strategy of typography, iconography, colors, layout
4. Creating responsive design comps on the basis of wireframes
5. Asking smart questions, taking risks and championing new ideas
6. Bringing expert opinion on best-practices, patterns and trends
7. Translating high-level explicit and latent requirements into functional user interfaces
8. Presenting designs and articulating design decisions
9. Communicating design rationale and maintaining consistency throughout the project
10. Executing designs as a part of software development teams

• Strive to make your work intuitive, compelling and a delight to see.
• Be a self-motivated team player with a positive, solution-oriented attitude
• Be dynamic and open to working in fast-paced, ambiguous and quickly changing environments
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills
• Expertise in standard UI/UX software such as Adobe XD, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and researching, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Experience in Education Technology would be great

Futuristic Labs is exactly what it sounds like - a place to 'dream' & 'build' futuristic products. A research and product development studio with an enthusiastic team working towards building innovative consumer products to create a future with superior and healthier lifestyle.

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At the moment we are set out to solve home cooking. To achieve this, we have RIKU, our flagship product, which is a fully automatic, AI assisted rice and curry maker. Other products in this ecosystem are : Semi - A smart induction cook top, A digital kitchen app and a Recipe platform; The perfect blend of hardware and software.

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So if you love good home cooked food and are excited to build an automated solution for the entire cooking process, then this is the place for you!

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We are looking for a product designer who has a good understanding of the entire design cycle right from user research, problem discovery, sketching and wire-framing, building flows and interactions, to creating pixel-perfect screens, testing prototypes and working with developers. And most importantly - repeating the cycle all over again to see what more can be done.

We are a fast-paced team focused on complex design challenges. This position works closely with many other teams and will be an advocate for user experience. By constantly focusing on the user, you’ll create products that are not only amazing to look at, but also intuitive and useful to thousands of people worldwide. We are a lean startup and expect you to wear many hats when needed and you are not afraid of getting your hands dirty.

As a Product Designer you will:

• As the first ever Product Designer, you'll be the core owner of our mobile app from start to finish. You’ll help us better understand our users’ needs & pain points, and will have the skills to turn your learnings into beautifully designed visuals and interactions. You'll report to our CTO and collaborate with the engineering team.
• You are an active collaborator/contributor for our other web applications.
• Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams including Product, Engineering, Marketing and various Business teams to deliver delightful customer experiences
• Work closely with the engineering team to assure design quality by auditing implementation during development.
• Define the product briefs together with stakeholders, get buy-in of your design.
• Attend product meetings and have a granular understanding of the company’s goals.
• Facilitate product vision by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences as well as developing system information architecture.
• Drive user research, create detailed user journeys and take appropriate design decisions backed by user-behavior and data.
• Effectively work with a team of designers, help them in raising the bar, resolving road-blocks, prioritizing and breaking down complex projects into simpler tasks
• Use basic analytics tools to gather customer data (funnel), iterate on product based on data & feedback to drive improvements in overall product experience.
• Ensure that we have the right product velocity by working with business, growth, and core product teams.
• Measure and iterate on your developed product once it’s live based on product OKRs
• Help team members with other aspects of running a sprint, such as stakeholder interviews, research, user testing and design documentation.
• Mentor junior designers to help other designers work efficiently and participate actively in the hiring process.
• Establish design systems to maintain design consistency and coherence across the brand.
• Develop & document internal tools & processes to translate product requirements into unique designs for desired experiences.

What do we think you need to succeed in this role:

• Experience: You have 3+ yrs experience in a Product Design or related role (Visual Design, UI/UX/CX Design) in designing preferably consumer facing digital products.
• Empathy: You have deep empathy and interest in keeping your customers point of view in the forefront, as well as constantly validating your design either through quantitative or qualitative research.
• Expertise: You have a deep understanding of UX, prototyping, visual design, typography, components usage, wire-framing, information architecture and visual hierarchy along with relentless execution powers. You are well versed with one of the design tools: Photoshop, XD or Figma and its underlying best practices
• Execute: You can create pixel-perfect visual designs with a good sense of aesthetics, with great attention to detail.
• Ownership: You can work independently and have high ownership of getting things done. You take the lead in discovering problems and execution.
• Leadership: You have the ability to lead and manage several complex projects simultaneously
• Growth Mindset: You welcome challenges, product feedback and ambiguity as a path to unlock your maximum potential.
• First Principle’s Thinker: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems via first principles. You can understand business, design and engineering goals along with constraints.
• Planner: You are good at project management and comfortable breaking down complex projects into simpler tasks.
• Timeline focused: You take pride in balancing fast shipping with quality shipping, with the ability to deliver solid work on a tight schedule.
• Curiosity: You love exploring new products in the market for coming up with new ways to make the product more complete and robust.
• Learner: You have the ability to learn quickly, teach yourself new skills, and thrive within a complex, fast-paced environment
• Effective Communicator: You are comfortable and confident articulating ideas and presenting your work/thoughts in verbal or written form.

Benefits

Curious what it's like to work at Futuristic Labs?

Being in an early start-up, you will be working closely and along with the leadership team and can potentially learn and grow exponentially.(other roles)

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Futuristic Labs. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our people. We train and reward talent and are looking to develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each othe

UI-UX Designer (2 Months to 4 years)

Work From Office

Bengaluru and Calicut

Our company is looking for an experienced and ambitious UI-UX Designer with experience in designing tools like Figma, AdobeXD, Photoshop and Illustrator

Skills required-

• Photoshop
• Illustrator 
• Figma
• Adobe XD
• Zeplin/Invision 
• Knowledge in Responsive design
• HTML and CSS
• Bootstrap

Main Responsibilities of a UI/UX Designer

• Create user centred designs by understanding business requirements and user feedback
• Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and mock-ups
• Translating requirements into style guides, design systems, design patterns and attractive user interfaces

Role: User Experience Designer

Team: Product

Location : Remote

STAGE:

STAGE is an OTT platform for BHARAT which serves video based entertainment in dialects (बोलयाँ). We bring traditional and new local Artists on STAGE who create content in hyperlocal genres like Ragini, Geet, Saang in dialect like haryanavi, rajasthani etc. We are on a mission to uplift the cultural roots of Bharat, by connecting/introducing dialect based content to young and adult audiences. There are 400 million ( 40 crore) Bharatwaisi who primarily speak in dialects in Bharat. We want to serve them well by providing quality content in their local culture. This is a complete remote work so good communication skills would be a strong plus for this role. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the product design function at STAGE
• Collaborate with cross functional teams like Technology, Product, Content and deliver amazing product experiences to our users
• Create user flows, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes for STAGE on mobile, web and TV
• Conduct user research for discovering user insights aligned with the business goals
• Work closely with our users to understand and solve their pain points
• Contribute towards each stage of design thinking principles (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Scale) for our users

Requirements:

• Growth and Ownership mindset
• 3-5 year of experience in product design, UI/UX
• Hands on experience on any product design tool. Sketch or Figma preferred
• Great communication skills. Both verbal and written.
• Ability to interpret data would be an advantage since this is a B2C product
• Good problems solving skills and product sense
• Understanding of user research frameworks

Pepkidz Learning was established with a vision to transform children into leaders. All parents desire happiness and success for their children. Our innovative curriculum is research-based and is designed to provide the children with the needed training to develop their emotional intelligence and required personality traits. We provide holistic primary education in India through an innovative curriculum, activity-based learning, and cutting-edge technology.

The Pepkidz team is growing and is now looking for a Graphic Designer | Illustrator. The role requires ideating and creating various content (Social media ads, comic & story books, character design, illustrations for curriculum, static and animated content) for digital and social platforms, web design, and UI projects. The role also requires you to have a good understanding of the current design trends to compose clear, persuasive, original themes and designs.You will have the ability to cohesively work and brainstorm with the team - to develop the best possible ideas, campaigns, content, designs, or other ongoing work. Needs to be a stellar team worker – with the right attitude. You will be working on multiple projects at once, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines. And most importantly, you should love the industry and your work

Roles and responsibilities

• Study design briefs and determine requirements.
• Schedule your projects as per the deadline.
• You would ensure the understanding of internal processes and successfully run with them
• Ability to cohesively work with the curriculum and marketing team - to develop ideas, campaigns, websites, apps, or other ongoing work.
• You would manage the quality of Social Content in partnership with the copywriter and design lead.
• Conceptualise visuals based on requirements and prepare rough drafts to present ideas.
• Create illustrations and character designs using the software.
• Managing quality of ideas and design and proof check, amend, revise or redevelop/repurpose adverts or campaigns in response to feedback from the design lead.
• You will be working on several campaigns at once, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines.
• Keeping up to date with popular culture and trends; monitoring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
• A good team worker – with the right attitude – willing to work cohesively to co-create and brainstorm to provide solutions to their best ability.

Required skills, knowledge and experience

• You should have 1-4 years of experience in an advertising agency/design studio with experience working in digital and social media. 
• Illustration skill is a must and hands-on knowledge of motion graphics is a plus point.
• Awards for past campaigns will be an added advantage.
• Experience working on integrated campaigns – with a great portfolio of work that boasts of client satisfaction, meeting creative quality standards, or meeting the requirements of the campaign.
• Excellent understanding of the most modern styles of art and design, with impeccable aesthetic sense.
• Software knowledge – Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects.
• Please share your portfolios as well.