Looking for a UI Designer, to join their Apps team, situated at their new offices in Cape Town.
Job Outputs
- Collaborate with the Head of Design, who will lead the design thinking across the company network, then take that vision back to the Mobile Developers and collectively design and deliver award winning apps across iOS, Android and Windows Phone
- You will be solely responsible for wire framing, designing and producing UI designs for the company suite of mobile products
- Use your UI expertise and mobile best practices to create visual, interactive prototypes and screens that will be used to explain user experiences and application flows to the Mobile Developers and project stakeholders
- You will need to ensure products have a consistent look and feel across platforms, ensuring platform specific best practices are adhered to
- Create and maintain guidelines for visual assets
Qualifications and Experience
- A Bachelor's degree with a focus on design would be highly desirable however we believe equivalent industry experience and a can-do attitude goes a long way
- 3 - 4 years user interface design experience for web and mobile-web
- Strong experience in application user interface design and interactive application design
- Experience designing wireframes
- Previous UI Designer experience at an interactive agency highly desirable, though not essential
Skills and Competencies
- Expert knowledge of Adobe creative tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator is required (InDesign skills are a plus)
- Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Excellent visual (sketches, wireframes, screen mockups, flow diagrams, etc.), verbal, written and presentation skills
- Superior knowledge of user experience principles, graphic design standards, design trends, and techniques for web and mobile-web software products
- Ability to translate verbal ideas into concepts and designs that demonstrate the user experience
- Comfortable quickly adapting to dynamic timelines and requirement changes