Senior UI/Visual Designer

Location : Remote (EST preferred)

Pay Rate : up $70 / hour (DOE)

Duration : 7 Months (likely to extend)

Planet Interactive's client in the Education Administration Programs space has a HOT need for a Senior UI / Visual Designer with up to 7 years of experience in working with design systems within the education or higher-education space .

This is a REMOTE 7-month assignment starting in May 2024!

The Senior UI / Visual Designer will work closely across dependent product teams, along with our design and engineering leads, to create user-friendly designs, UI components, interactions, and templates that will be used to support the end-to-end student and educator experiences.

Senior UI / Visual Designer Responsibilities :

• Designing engaging experiences through compelling UI / visual design, leveraging our design standards, patterns and UI elements.
• Advocate for design process, methods, core system, and patterns in order to scale, educate, and evangelize consistency and best practices.
• Build out assets of core components of the design system so that the team can leverage those assets in design software like Figma.
• Working with the development team, clearly document the standards of the design system in a user-friendly way.
• Use an iterative process, working closely with UX design and engineering counterparts to design, prototype, and validate design ideas.
• Responsive to direction and comfortable working with multiple people from different disciplines to achieve an impactful experience.
• Be a significant contributor to the fostering of the design process and quality standards based on objective, data-driven evidence.
• Document and present system updates to stakeholders and users.
• Work collaboratively with the Design System team to ensure brand and pattern alignment.
• Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers.

Senior UI / Visual Designer Qualifications

• Ability to generate and successfully apply product-specific visual ideas grounded in strong UX.
• Advanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, data visualization, responsiveness, branding, illustration, iconography and interaction design.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage multiple tasks with accuracy and attention to schedules, and communicate progress.
• Understanding of user experience fundamentals, and their impact on UI and interaction design.
• Experience working within a distributed design team - collaborating with designers on different product teams to create and ideate.
• Must be comfortable designing / prototyping in Figma (med-high fidelity).
• Have experience in design annotation and specs.
• Designed large-scale, complex enterprise applications in an iterative environment.
• Figma / Principle / Adobe.
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