UI Designer

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Our Mission

At Twine, we recognize that companies require a flexible approach to hiring expert freelancers for their most critical projects. Traditional freelance platforms often fall short when it comes to scalability and diversity. That's where we shine. Twine operates as a thriving global freelance network, with diverse experts across various fields, including marketing, engineering, and AI. Our core mission is to empower creators, whether they're businesses or individual freelancers, to thrive in their creative endeavors.

About the Job

We are seeking a UI Designer for a multinational retailer.

You will be responsible for,

• Developing and delivering app and web user interfaces across a range of touchpoints in the Basket, Checkout, Payment, Post Order journeys.
• Creating prototypes for web and app to support online research and testing.
• Collaborating with all design disciplines to create and improve user experience and outcomes that are in-line with our design principles.
• Creative problem solving, such as simplifying interfaces for complex products and services.
• Working closely with engineering teams to ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle.
• Dedicated focus on human centered design to always meet our user needs that serve our customers a little better every day.
• Interaction design research, identifying trends and critically analysing the viability.
• Critiquing in-progress design work, evaluating the priority and effectiveness of solutions. Providing and encouraging feedback from your team and other designers.
• Liaising with technology and understanding the scope of components in existing component libraries, determining fit for purpose and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Ensuring new designs are consistent and leverage existing component libraries.
• Being an advocate for correct use of and contribution to our design system.
• Proactively sharing and communicating design expertise and knowledge with your peers and teams to improve organisational capability.
• Demonstrating strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and subject areas within the organisation.
• Effectively engaging and participating in research activities. Making key decisions based on research and understanding how this research impacts others.
• Reviewing previous designs at project inception, conducting design audits, determining wireframe feasibility, and creating hi-fidelity prototypes.
• Adherence to W3C accessibility guidelines.

Requirements

• Passion for design and technology, with a keen interest in visual arts and digital culture.
• Good awareness of what success looks like with products and processes in the market.
• Self-motivated, organised and pay great attention to detail, with an aptitude to collaborate, share trends and best practices with team members.
• Actively seeks out ways to draw in first-hand customer representation to projects.
• Experience designing through the proactive use of insight, using analytics and design research to test and validate design variants.
• Work experience with other UI designers, UX designers, researchers, UX writers and developers to produce and maintain live products, shown in a strong and varied personal portfolio in digital format.
• Proficiency at designing user interfaces for native app and web, across multiple devices and screen sizes, demonstrated with a strong portfolio.
• Proficiency with the latest versions of Figma, along with good knowledge of the latest multi-channel design and prototyping tools and technologies.
• Experienced working with design systems and brand guidelines.
• Knowledgeable in producing design executions that comply with W3C accessibility guidelines. Knowledge of typography and its use in interactive contexts.
• Experience of working on design projects using agile methodologies.
• Good knowledge of how digital interfaces are developed, knowing how to produce clean deliverables that help maintain good code.
• Experience in producing interactive prototypes to test creative concepts and ideas, ranging from simple click-through prototypes to complex micro-interactions.
• Experience in participating in research sessions, as well as experience in development refinement sessions.
• Previous experience in the retail sector is an advantage.