Senior UI/ UX Designer, Empuls

Role - UX Designer

Experience - Min 2.5 years

Location - Mumbai

About our client :-

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 like fashion and lifestyle; food and FMCG, home and decor and beauty and wellness. We 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. We partner with passionate entrepreneurs to combine our collective learning and experience with data science, digital ethnography, and technology platforms to build brands that connect to the new generation of Indian consumers.

What you’ll 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, 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 food/fashion/BPC categories.

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

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.

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

Role

The role of the Ui/Ux Designer is to envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. You’ll take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use designs for the first-time user to the sophisticated expert. Achieving this goal requires collaboration with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers and Product Managers throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes. At each stage, you will anticipate what our users need, advocate for them and ensure that the final product surprises and delights them.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into engaging interactive experiences that create a meaningful product design.
• You will partner with the product in the creation of personas, user journey maps, information architecture models, wireframes, prototypes, visual design, and conducting user research.
• Bring UX/UI experience to raise the bar and elevate the product design. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Marketing, and Design teams. • Design new patterns and standards.
• Leverage customer empathy, research, and design principles to support design decisions.
• Establish a strong design culture by championing user-centric design and design thinking.

What We're Looking For

• Proven track record of creating exceptional experiences and designs that raise the bar.
• Experience designing and thinking in design systems translating complexity to simplicity.
• Deep understanding of responsive and adaptive design.
• Ability to successfully manage all aspects of a project from start to finish, as well as multitask and prioritize projects, communicate progress, and deliver on time.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.
• Your up-to-date portfolio speaks for itself. Must have a portfolio featuring examples of work, your design process, and outcomes/results.
• Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field of study.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in UX/UI, mobile design, interaction design, and visual design.
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design.
• Strong knowledge & relevant experience of design tools like Figma, Principle, Framer, • Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML, CSS.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent self-management skills.
• Previous experience at a startup or in-house creative team, a plus

An aesthetically pleasing design creates a positive response in people’s brains and leads them to believe the design works better. Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable. We need Visual Designers who know how to make their design interfaces usable, how to draw the user’s eye to the correct information and functionality., and how to prioritise content on a page through size, colour, and the use of negative space. We need visual designers who have mastered the basics of UI, graphic design, branding, and visual communication. This is because they have to translate a brand’s style and voice into a beautiful yet usable design. We take our design process seriously. So research via surveys, customer feedback, heat mapping, and analytics forms a core part of our process. Our designs go through an internal design checklist so that we achieve user goals while keeping in mind technical limitations. You need to be someone who’s flexible, agile, responsive and honestly, calm! You will be juggling multiple projects. The office environment is young and dynamic. It's a work-hard, play-hard culture. We work in a hybrid model, three days from the office, and 2 days from home. If this sounds like you, apply to us.

JOB SUMMARY

Work on the website, enterprise applications (multichannel), embedded product UI’s

•  Translate high-level design requirements into wireframes and engaging, intuitive, and functional user interfaces
•  Ability to execute visual designs at all stages of the project. From conceptual to finalization and handover
•  Ability to create visual design concepts, style guides, and design documents
•  Conduct expert/heuristic evaluation reviews of the products and services. Providing design recommendations.
•  Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to implement innovative solutions
•  Work closely with the developer team, manage and maintain designs to meet customer needs, validate and ensure delivering world-class experiences
•  Participate in design discussions and collaborative sessions with teams and stakeholders, offering and providing feedback on concepts and ideas to evolve the experience
•  Create mood boards, mind maps and be a part of brainstorming sessions
•  Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interaction storyboards, and design deliverables that guide creative, content, and development efforts
•  Be a productive and additive teammate, actively helping leaders and peers to raise the bar while also capitalizing on ideas from others
•  Knowledge of Mobile, Tablet, and Desktop design constraints and patterns

What are we looking for?

Qualifications and Skills:-

•  A talented UI/UX Designer with a keen eye for details, a storyteller, and a problem solver
•  Excellent understanding of typography, Color, Layout
•  Strong verbal and writing skills, ability to tell a story around an experience or solution
•  Fluency in creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes preferably on Adobe CS, Sketch, Axure, etc
•  Contributes to building a design-centric work culture

Beyond Design is looking for a senior UI designer who is interested in creating trends. Applicants with strong interest in creating user interface applications with pixel perfect look, feel designs and implementation guides are the ones for us. 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.

You should be excited about research and analysis and also be open-minded with an unquenchable thirst for new approaches and solutions to real-world problems faced by a common man.

Skills needed

• From a brief, produce concepts for layouts and develop these concepts based on feedback given.
• Finish designs to a highly-detailed, professional level.
• Create wireframe specifications (complete with annotation) for developers to implement.
• Work with developers to communicate specs, ensure correct implementation and work through any problems encountered.
• Design web, mobile and tablet friendly applications.
• Visual design definition, direction and execution.
• A designer with a holistic approach to design, who is able to draw on key insights from different parts of an organization.

• Solid knowledge of design theory, especially principles of logo, graphic/ UI design and usability.
• A keen aesthetic sensibility, with an eye for crafting visually appealing designs to high levels of detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• A people person and leader who knows how to get people involved and motivate them to collaborate in design discussions.
• Hands-on knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop and Illustrator), CSS and HTML, JavaScript skills.
• A good listener and facilitator who knows how to facilitate constructive design discussions.