Front End UI Designer (Front End, Figma, Apps & Web Apps)


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BluetownOnline Ltd

Listed on

16th March 2022

Location

Birmingham

Salary/Rate

£28000 - £32000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Job Title: Front End UI Designer (Front End, Figma, Apps & Web Apps)

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 per annum

Position: Permanent, Full-Time

Front End User Interface (UI) Designer: This Jewellery Quarter based business is a well-established app design agency specialising in Apps, Online Portals, and Software as a Service products. You will be working on the UI design process for a wide range of web and mobile app projects for various clients of different sizes and across several sectors ranging from innovative start-ups to established businesses.

Job Role:

The company is looking for a Front-End UI Designer to join its team.

You will work collaboratively to plan, wireframe, and design a wide range of mobile app and online portal projects. The company has a wide range of customers, from innovative start-ups looking to launch new market-changing products to established businesses that want to improve their processes with tech.

The company primarily uses Figma for wireframing and graphic design, so you must have a solid working knowledge of this tool for this role.

The company codes up designs using React and React Native. To be considered, you do not need to program; however, you will need to consider the technical trade-offs or limitations of any UI designs you create and liaise with the development team where appropriate.

Supported by our project team, you will be involved in planning meetings with customers to discuss their requirements and options for features and designs to meet their business objectives and budget. After these meetings, you will wireframe your ideas and create graphically designed and clickable UI prototypes for the development team to code up.

You will also be involved in the quality assurance process relating to your designs, supporting developers with feedback to ensure that the end-product looks and functions as you expect.

To be considered you must:

Have exceptional communication skills, able to listen to customer requirements and communicate options to them considering their needs.

Experience liaising with customers to understand requirements.

Have good organisation and time management abilities

Experience using Figma UI design tools.

To be able to show a portfolio of your existing works or design concepts.

Have a basic working understanding of how the graphics process contributes to the wider project management functions.

Understand the principles of UX Design Psychology and reflect these in your work.

Understand both mobile first and responsive design patterns.

Be familiar with the basics of the "Minimum Viable Product" concept which applies to product design and development, including its impact on customer budgets.

The company is looking for a candidate who enjoys learning about new design trends and how to apply those to their work, to help ensure the Company continues to create modern digital products.

For overseas applicants, the company is a Skilled Worker Sponsor.

Due to significant company growth relative to available office space over the Covid period, office working will be completely optional in the near term. Home working will remain an option until the company transitions to a Hybrid Working model which will see a split between home and office working.

So, if you have good experience working creating high quality front end user interface designs and wireframes (using Figma) then please apply.

Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience of; UI Designer, UX Designer, User Interface Designer, User Experience Designer, Front End Designer, Back End Designer, Mid-Level Designer, Senior Designer, Adobe XD Designer, Sketch Designer, Product Designer, Graphic Designer, Interface Optimisation Expert, App Designer, App Design Expert, Web Design, Web UI Designer will also be considered for this role.

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