As a Visual/UI Designer you will be able to:
• Create artful and functional interfaces, helping citizens who uses our product, by improving user experience.
• Develop and implement processes and guidelines for User Experience together with UX designers whilst demonstrating a citizen-centric mind set.
• Conduct product inception with product owners to understand the product requirements.
• Conduct focus group discussions and usability testing with citizens to enhance the product.
• Develop a sense of empathy with the users, and create usable products through the understanding of design principles, colour theory, and typography.
• Present the UI visually so that information is easy to read and find.
• Generate clear ideas, concepts and graphical assets from beginning to end.
• Produce animation / motion solutions and demos.
• Create overall branding and style guides to supplement prototypes for product development.
• Work very closely with development teams to ensure design specs are implemented
The candidate is required to have the following skillset:
• Good team player.
• Creative and strategic thinker.
• Good presenter as well as listener.
• Open minded, explorative and adaptive.
• Patient; in the course of projects, there might be rounds of changes.
• Propose design decisions that are practical, functional whilst not compromising with aesthetics.
• Ability to convey ideas through variety of methods, such as storytelling, storyboards and mood boards.
• Proficient at using typography, iconography, colour, space and texture for your designs.
• Up to date and actively learning, you need to hone your skills, keep up with trends so that your designs are fresh and relevant.
• Front end development/web development technologies such as HTML/HTML5, CSS, SCSS JavaScript, and Responsive Web Design will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of web and mobile technologies and their impact of feasibility on design solutions.
• A portfolio of an array of digital projects.
• Advanced knowledge of design and prototyping tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketch.
• Minimum 3 years of experience of working as a Visual/UI/Web Designer.
• Degree or Diploma in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications), HCI, CS, or a related field or equivalent practical experience).
