UI/UX Designer Intern

Summary

Join a venture-backed mobile skill gaming platform as a UI/UX Designer to design and implement easy-to-use designs for new features of the app.

Requirements

• Demonstrated talent in creating and implementing UI/UX design, service design, information architecture or equivalent experience in a related field (psychology, engineering, data analytics, etc)
• Eye-catching portfolio showcasing a high level of craft with a strong foundation in visual and interaction design
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Experience creating storyboards and web/mobile mapping and working knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Figma and InVision)
• Experienced in prototyping, user testing and analysis
• Expertise in human interface guidelines, standards, and best practices as they apply to platforms
• Highly detailed communication of design principles as well as UX/UI guidelines
• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• An ability to articulate design decisions with grace, logic and data
• Experience in data driven design by developing, evaluating, and producing results from test and learn processes
• Experience presenting research and testing findings and solution recommendations
• An ability to influence strategy by engaging product and engineering partners
• Ability to prioritize and manage several milestones and projects efficiently
• Account for challenges using problem-solving skills and seek to optimize data for the best possible outcome
• Experienced building simple clean interfaces for complex products
• Experience working in products that engage users with a complex underlying workflows and processes
• Continued education and research into UX trends and current design strategy and technologies
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism

Responsibilities

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Understand product specifications and user psychology to develop user scenarios, task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and mockups
• Support design solutions by establishing company brand standards, creating and maintaining detailed design documentation
• Contribute to the utilization, evolution, and maintenance of foundational UX frameworks and touchpoints
• Create surveys for research through various media platforms to gather feedback on user's ease of use and satisfaction
• Identify and Find creative and elegant ways to solve UX problems (e.g. usability, affordability, responsiveness)
• Tracking the impact of your work via guest feedback and data insights
• Conduct A/B testing and adjust designs appropriately based on user feedback and product analytics
• Staying abreast of competitor products, industry trends and best practices for UX design and processes
• Design the aesthetics and graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
• Help Agile UX processes by interacting with Product Management and development team
• Create project deliverables that clearly and persuasively communicate the UX strategy and the reasoning behind it
• Translate industry-related data and topics into engaging visuals and graphics
• Create visual designs for marketing material such as newsletters, email templates, and campaigns
• Design mobile game assets and pass them on to Unity developers to be used in games

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Familiar with realtime 3D game editors such as Unity, Unreal, or similar
• Experience with gaming products and Unity assets
• Experience using web and mobile analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, MixPanel
• Familiar with programming languages such as Javascript, C#, or similar for UI scripting