UI/UX Designer

UI/UX Designer

Projects often need the technical expertise of more than one person. Particle41 provides expert teams that embed directly into businesses for immediate impact and execution towards developing outstanding software. Our clients range from startups to small and medium-sized enterprises. 

As a UI/UX designer, you’ll work on a handful of digital products across the web and mobile. You’ll communicate with clients to help them understand their customers’ needs, and make design recommendations based on your findings.  

In This Role, You Will:

• Apply human-centered design principles to software creation.
• Develop concepts and prototypes for stakeholders.
• Iterate quickly on your designs in a lean, agile environment.
• Articulate design decisions and diplomatically navigate feedback.
• Conduct user research and analyze data to inform design decisions.
• Ensure brand and product cohesion by leveraging design systems. 

Requirements Gathering and Analysis

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate in requirement analysis sessions to understand business needs and user requirements.
• Provide technical insights and recommendations during the requirements-gathering process.

Agile Development

• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews.
• Work closely with Agile teams to deliver software solutions on time and within scope.
• Adapt to changing priorities and requirements in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Testing and Debugging

• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of applications.
• Write unit tests and validate the functionality of developed features and individual elements.
• Writing integration tests to ensure different elements within a given application function as intended and meet desired requirements.
• Identify and resolve software defects, code smells, and performance bottlenecks.

Continuous Learning and Innovation

• Stay updated with the latest technologies and trends.
• Propose innovative solutions to improve the performance, security, scalability, and maintainability of applications.
• Continuously seek opportunities to optimize and refactor existing codebase for better efficiency.
• Stay up-to-date with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Collaboration

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including designers, testers, and product managers.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment where ideas are shared and valued.

Skills and Experience We Value:

• At least 3 years of professional work experience in UI, UX, or product design.
• Experience building user interfaces without the aid of frameworks.
• Experience delivering designs ready for development.
• A strong portfolio showcasing previous work in UX and UI design.
• Working professional proficiency in Figma.
• Trained eye for typography, color and spacing theory
• Practical knowledge of interaction design.
• Secondary proficiency in Adobe, Affinity, Linearity, or similar.
• Can contribute to design systems.