UI Developer

JOB TITLE: Associate UIUX Designer

LOCATION: Hyderabad - Hybrid (2 days a week)

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

As our Associate UI/UX Designer, you will be filling the role of a behavioural scientist in a design environment. Your primary mission will be to understand our user and business needs, product requirements and transform that understanding into user-focused and intuitive products, interfaces, and platforms for mobile and web.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

Following the full design process, from conducting user and market research to

conceptualizing and designing a product for the company.

• Highly analytical, creative, and consistently demonstrates high-quality design, writing, and presentation skills.
• Confident to justify design decisions based on a thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies.
• Understanding & implementing research methodologies
• Assisting with the development of product design strategy.
• Determining customer goals and defining the product interactions necessary to achieve them.
• Compiling user, business, and technical requirements to create product information architecture.
• Creating wireframes and prototypes that illustrate key product interactions.
• Working with the core design team to develop layout and visuals.
• Collaborating with the product development team to ensure an efficient customer journey.
• Conducting product testing to identify problems and areas for improvement within the customer experience.
• Staying up to date with industry trends and best practices..

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• 2-3 years of work experience in UX or interaction design
• Strong work portfolio that demonstrates systematic and creative design thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI/UX best practices.
• Proven well-designed examples of responsive grid-based layouts
• Good communication skills and a team player.
• Ability to manage time wisely across projects and competing priorities, meet agreed-upon deadlines, and be accountable for work.
• Proficiency in Information architecture, wireframing, and design thinking, applied knowledge of visual design, typography, color, layout, and information hierarchy.
• Experience in working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, including waterfall and agile methodologies.

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance for spouses, kids, and parents.
• PF/ESI or equivalent
• Individual/team bonuses
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially!
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Qualifications - No bachelor's degree is required. Good communication skills are a must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is a Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi-million valuation companies in the US and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations, including Target, US Ventures, and Imprint Engine.

We’re a team of 80 strong from around the world that are radically open-minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another, and pushing our boundaries to the furthest it's ever been.

The Opportunity

Illumine Labs, Mumbai, is building a series of innovative digital knowledge products. These products are used for learning, education, counselling, behavioural change, etc. Some examples include e-books, counselling tools, habit-creating app, etc.

We are inviting UI-UX Designers who enjoy working with knowledge, can work with a vision, and can appreciate the technology aspects of the product - to be a part of the design & build team for assembling such digital knowledge products.

Your Role

1. Rigorous thinking-through of product goals, product concept, architecture, flows, use cases, usage conditions/ constraints, etc. (in collaboration with the project team)
2. Translating into interface designs and specifications for technology, and walkthroughs, communications, if any.
3. Early testing with the project team & users and evolving it to a working solution.
4. Collaborating with the technology team to develop a working product/ application.
5. User testing with pilot groups and documentation of usage, and response to the product. Evolving the product and supporting adoption.

What will ensure that you enjoy working in Illumine & that you succeed in the role?

• You are driven by values and a love for excellence.
• You flourish in a commitment-based environment & have a habit of keeping your word (to clients and colleagues).
• You believe that client outcomes are more important than creative flourishes.
• You can work in an environment that has hard deadlines and that will challenge & push you to go beyond what you know or are comfortable with.

Who can apply

Engineers/ Architects/ Designers (or having any other background) with at least 3-4 years of experience in designing digital products.

Work at Illumine is breakthrough, innovative & challenging. Apply only if you seek challenge (not comfort & convenience) and are committed to making a real difference through your work.

About Us

Illumine is a purpose-based organization committed to nation-building. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates closely with government/ corporate/ educational institutions to unleash their people's potential and enable the collectives to find their own solutions. Our Large-Scale Interventions lead to positive and sustainable impacts on the ground.

Over the last 20 years, Illumine has designed, developed & deployed such interventions across some of the leading businesses (SBI, Tata Steel, Asian Paints, BPCL, Aditya Birla Capital, etc.), Educational institutions (Gujarat Technological University, Biju Patnaik University, IIT Delhi, 5000 CBSE schools, etc.) impacting ~42 lakh people across India.

Recent collaborations with the Capacity Building Commission, Govt. of India have led to cognitive transformation projects with the Indian Railways (for 1 lakh citizen-facing employees), Ministry of Home Affairs, and National Police Academy (for police persons in Union Territories & Delhi). There are more such prestigious projects in the pipeline that you can be a part of.

To learn more about Illumine

1. Visit our websites: www.illumine.in | https://illuminefoundation.org/
2. Explore our ideas: https://youtube.com/illuminelabs
3. The philosophy that drives our work: https://srinivasv.com/

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

1. Only NIFT, NID, or pearl graduate
2. Develop standard UI components and style guides
3. Build wireframes and storyboards to conceptualize design
4. Define visual elements, product elements, and overall design
5. Taking design briefs to understand requirements
6. Effectively communicate your designs to developers and other key stakeholders
7. Create and implement interaction models and user interface specifications
8. Conduct industry research and stay up-to-date on best practices, competitor UI designs, and emerging technologies
9. Conduct, observe and analyze usability testing sessions
10. Conduct user testing of applications, software, and websites
11. Develop consistent, intuitive architectures
12. Support the QA team to make sure features are implemented in the coded version as intended
13. Determine timeline and deliverables
14. Evaluate and set best practices and standards
15. Work with UI managers and team to define user flows and sitemaps
16. Measure the human-computer interaction (HCI) element of a design
17. Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, and screen designs
18. Work with frontend and backend developers as needed

Our client is more than 2 decades old NBFC registered with the RBI. The company was set up with an aim to empower rural entrepreneurs, SMEs, and small institutions by micro-financing. The company has come a long way since its inception in 1992 and has evolved with time with the introduction of its App in the small loans sector. At present, the company has more than 5000 employees and has serviced millions of borrowers to accomplish their dreams.

The group has diversified into the education segment and is running two schools. The schools are part of one of the largest private school chains in India. The schools have a flourishing family of 350 teachers and 6500 students. The leadership team at the helm of the company has demonstrable experience in financial services and has built the company by upholding the trust of its customers.

• Developing UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites and apps function and look like
• Creating original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, tables, etc)
• Identifying and troubleshooting UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Adhering to style standards on fonts, colors, and images
• Creating attention-grabbing designs aimed at multiple target audiences B2C

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a UI/UX designer
• Character making and image solving capabilities
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop)
• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus
• Knowledge of UI/UX of responsive websites
• Portfolio of design projects    

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.

• Translate ideas into concepts, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Work with a cross-functional team of engineers, content writers, and product managers to anticipate and identify user needs and align product goals with the user's goals.
• Come up with features and improvements that you can ship quickly and measure for effectiveness.
• Design and discover workflows that allow you to test designs early and often, and then iterate upon feedback.
• Identify new product opportunities, inform launch decisions, and product improvements.
• Use and evolve our internal design libraries and design system.
• Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure what is shipped is true to your design work.
• Help with hiring and establishing a design culture within the company by evangelizing thoughtful design and its impact on the bottom-line.
• Directly contribute to the overall product and design direction of the whole company.

• You have an online portfolio that documents your work and thinking process - or a PDF would do too. (If not, you might be asked to take a design assignment)
• You have a high bar for your work and the team.
• Strong empathy for users
• You have solid Visual Design, UI, and Interaction Design chops.
• You are someone who cares deeply about getting to the root of the problem you're solving and take time to understand all the facts before making informed design decisions.
• You engage complexity head-on before simplifying.
• You have a strong bias for action when it comes to prototyping to help facilitate better product discussions.
• You understand the balance between craft, speed, and impact on the bottom line.

User Experience Designer / Engineer

Job Description

The company's product team develops the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants.

As a UI/|UX engineer, you will ship high-fidelity designs of new features and prototype solutions. You will have incredible ownership in creating an elegant end-user experience for merchants across every aspect of the product while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, technical product managers, customer success managers, and marketers.

You’ll play a critical role in shaping our product—from influencing the roadmap, doing in-depth user research, and weighing technical constraints and tradeoffs. You will work directly with the head of the product and management team in delivering a product experience that creates moments of delight for our merchants, and growth for the company.

What You’ll Do:

• Understand various types of users across our platform and representing our merchants in product strategy and roadmap discussions
• Create unified, end-to-end experiences through close collaboration with team members from customer success, across product and engineering teams
• Identify the best UX methods and tools to use depending on project constraints, and own every aspect of the product's design, from solving the core user challenge to shipping a well-tested and pixel-perfect UI
• Work on creating and contributing to a design system of patterns in an effort to cultivate a cohesive look, feel, and user experience across the entire Fulfil platform
• Manage every aspect of the design process for products, features, and functionalities in collaboration with our Product and Engineering teams
• Create sketches, detailed wireframes, user flows, and high fidelity mockups and effectively communicate them clearly to relevant teams
• Prototype user experiences and run usability tests to turn concepts into intuitive and elegant interfaces
• Enhance and apply our established visual language to new features and functionalities of existing products
• Quickly iterate and develop alternative designs based on feedback from peers or learnings found in user testing, within support channels, etc.

Requirements

We're Looking for Someone With:

• 5+ Years of UI/UX experience, working closely with Product and Engineering teams to develop and ship great end-user experiences
• Expertise in our tools: Figma, Sketch, Zeplin, Clubhouse
• An outstanding portfolio, with presentable case studies showcasing a foundation in typography, interaction and visual design, and idea generation
• Experience collaborating with a diverse team in a rapid growth environment. - Huge plus if you’ve worked with remote teammates and understand the communication patterns of working with highly distributed teams (you’ll be working closely with our team in Toronto, Canada!)
• A learning and growth mindset: We’re an early-stage startup, and we’re growing quickly. Our team size and our design process will evolve and change many times over the next few years. We strive to continuously improve, iterate, and integrate what we learn — from our work and with each other
• Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.
• Empathy and resilience: empathy for our customers, to build a product and a service they’ll love. Empathy for our coworkers, to build a workplace we’ll love. Resilience to be able to take feedback from anywhere, consider it gracefully, and fold it into your thinking and your work
• Excellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills.

Nice to Haves:

• Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
• Experience working with Shopify’s Polaris design framework
• Experience in design related to B2B products e.g. E-commerce or ERP
• Design experience across a variety of platforms (desktop, tablet, iOS, Android, etc.).
• Experience developing or contributing to an actively evolving design system
• Background in engineering or another technical field

Nomadslab is looking for a Graphic Designer within the organization and creates simple, intuitive and efficient experiences for clients and users. The position will be of a graphic artist for our startup, active to the latest trend's regarding his/her field, should be familiar with various graphic designing standard's & requirements for the current market

Responsibilities and Duties

• Should be able to individually addressed designing of website, web banners, Facebook posts, digital advertisements, interactive page layouts, site grids, and interface demos, photo reducing, and enhancements, animated GIFs, and other such designing such objectives.

• Should be able to create interactive designs and develop fresh concepts that meet expectations of the brief objectives, define brand standards.

• Should have the ability to multi-task and work efficiently under pressure with careful attention to detail.

• Prepare work to be done accomplished by gathering information and material.

• Illustrate the concept by submitting a rough layout for approval.

• Should be a positive contributor to the team environment and must have effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Should have a passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
  
  

Qualifications and Skills

• Proven graphic designing experience

• A strong portfolio of illustrations or other graphics

• Familiarity with design software and technologies (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop)

• A keen eye for aesthetics and details

• Excellent communication skills, customer focus, creativity, flexibility.

• Ability to work methodically and meet deadlines

• Degree in Design, Fine Arts or related field is a plus