Smoothsailing
Product Designer
Smoothsailing, Hugo, Minnesota, United States, 55038
We are looking for a Product Designer to join our ship. Someone who loves designing innovative digital interfaces and can create testable prototypes.About us
Weare an ambitious digital design studio that focuses on durable design.Durable means qualitative design that lasts for a long time and has along-term positive effect on people. We think research is key to a gooddesign process.We work together as a team of specialists, with people with different talents and backgrounds.We’ve created some interesting stories about what we think is important in the world of design, enjoy the reading!What will you be doing?
Collecting context information about the product(plan)Detecting holes and issues in your briefingCommunicating with the client: show your work and gather feedback frequentlyCollaborating with UX designers & researchers (and being critical about their work)Collaborating with different roles within the product and development teamDesign visually strong mock-ups in Figma/Sketch (or any other tool that does the job)Build a testable prototype based on mock-ups or wireframesCollect feedback from the team and client and only rework the relevant partsBrief a Front-end developerWatch over the consistency and quality of the UI throughout the entire development processInitiate and maintain design systemsRequirements
Don’thesitate to apply if you don’t fulfil 100% of the requirements.Superheroes don’t exist, people with passion and talent do!You are open-minded: you listen, understand, discuss and find solutionsYou work best in a teamYou communicate well (Using Zoom, Slack, mail or in real life)You can give and receive feedbackYou are curious and eager to learnYou understand the long-term effect of your actionsYou can create a visually strong design for a UIYou can build a prototype (code or other) for testing this UIYou have basic knowledge and feeling for usabilityYou can handle prototyping tools, e.g. Figma/Sketch/FramerYou have basic knowledge about user research and accessibilityYou have basic knowledge about the ‘Lean’ way of workingYou have basic knowledge of how software (and apps) are getting built these days (PWA, Android, iOS)You know how to use design system tools, e.g. fractals/storybookYou can write code:
Knowledge of HTML/CSSYou can use GitYou can use Static site generators or HTML prototyping tools, f.ex. Gatsby, Eleventy, Jekyll, Hugo, …
You can draw the icon for ‘greenwashing’You can animate a sailboatAtSmooth Sailing you will be working in a small team with great people(that’s what everyone says). We make time for weekly feedback momentsand pick the projects you work on based on your skill level and learningpath.We offer money in the bank every month and all the sleepyou need. You choose when and where you work. We provide you with thenecessities for doing a good job: a laptop, a phone, a personal learningpath, meal vouchers and proper assurance.Next steps
Interested? Apply through Recruitee
and tell us about your favourite app and why it is so well-designed. Please don’t forget to attach your cv.
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Weare an ambitious digital design studio that focuses on durable design.Durable means qualitative design that lasts for a long time and has along-term positive effect on people. We think research is key to a gooddesign process.We work together as a team of specialists, with people with different talents and backgrounds.We’ve created some interesting stories about what we think is important in the world of design, enjoy the reading!What will you be doing?
Collecting context information about the product(plan)Detecting holes and issues in your briefingCommunicating with the client: show your work and gather feedback frequentlyCollaborating with UX designers & researchers (and being critical about their work)Collaborating with different roles within the product and development teamDesign visually strong mock-ups in Figma/Sketch (or any other tool that does the job)Build a testable prototype based on mock-ups or wireframesCollect feedback from the team and client and only rework the relevant partsBrief a Front-end developerWatch over the consistency and quality of the UI throughout the entire development processInitiate and maintain design systemsRequirements
Don’thesitate to apply if you don’t fulfil 100% of the requirements.Superheroes don’t exist, people with passion and talent do!You are open-minded: you listen, understand, discuss and find solutionsYou work best in a teamYou communicate well (Using Zoom, Slack, mail or in real life)You can give and receive feedbackYou are curious and eager to learnYou understand the long-term effect of your actionsYou can create a visually strong design for a UIYou can build a prototype (code or other) for testing this UIYou have basic knowledge and feeling for usabilityYou can handle prototyping tools, e.g. Figma/Sketch/FramerYou have basic knowledge about user research and accessibilityYou have basic knowledge about the ‘Lean’ way of workingYou have basic knowledge of how software (and apps) are getting built these days (PWA, Android, iOS)You know how to use design system tools, e.g. fractals/storybookYou can write code:
Knowledge of HTML/CSSYou can use GitYou can use Static site generators or HTML prototyping tools, f.ex. Gatsby, Eleventy, Jekyll, Hugo, …
You can draw the icon for ‘greenwashing’You can animate a sailboatAtSmooth Sailing you will be working in a small team with great people(that’s what everyone says). We make time for weekly feedback momentsand pick the projects you work on based on your skill level and learningpath.We offer money in the bank every month and all the sleepyou need. You choose when and where you work. We provide you with thenecessities for doing a good job: a laptop, a phone, a personal learningpath, meal vouchers and proper assurance.Next steps
Interested? Apply through Recruitee
and tell us about your favourite app and why it is so well-designed. Please don’t forget to attach your cv.
#J-18808-Ljbffr