User Experience Designer

Applicantz; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Applicantz, Inc. is looking for an experienced Experience Designer specializing in research-led interaction design for construction tech platforms. You will craft patterns for how diverse project teams access and understand data from BIM models, schedules, and video feeds.

Strong UI execution will complement your research work as you collaborate with engineers to bring patterns to life. The role centers on dense, data-rich views and requires hands-on AI-assisted design skills, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Field research experience and synthesis into design direction.
• Degree in HCI or related field or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio showing research shaping design and UI work.

Responsibilities

• Conduct field research to inform interaction patterns for complex data-rich interfaces.
• Translate insights into concrete interaction designs and prototypes.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure design intent is realized.

Skills

Field research

HCI background

UI design

Data-dense UI

AI-assisted design

Prototyping

Time zone awareness

Cross-functional collaboration

Research synthesis

Responsive design

Education

MS or PhD in HCI/Interaction Design

Bachelor’s in related field

Tools

Figma

Design systems

HTML/CSS

React

Job description

Hybrid job in Toronto, ON contract with occasional travel to partner project sites for field research, Candidate needs to be flexible working in EST or PST time zones.

• Proven experience in both user research and interaction design, with a portfolio showing research that directly shaped their own design work
• A background in human-computer interaction (HCI), through a degree or equivalent professional experience
• Experience designing for complex, data-rich applications, such as enterprise, analytics or technical tools.

Description:

• The Intelligent Construction (INTC) team is researching how conversational, multimodal experiences can help construction teams in the field and the office build and maintain a shared understanding of their project over time. Our platform turns fragmented project data (BIM models, drawings, schedules, crane camera video, and drone capture) into interfaces that adapt to site events and to the expertise of the person using them: the same data can be composed into structurally different layouts for a novice and an expert, and a single site event can recompose the whole interface at once.
• We are seeking an experience designer with a background in human-computer interaction (HCI) and strong UI design skills. The role is primarily research-driven interaction design: understanding how different members of a construction project team need information communicated to them, and turning those insights into interaction patterns and interfaces. Strong UI execution is a complementary skill, needed to make those patterns concrete, raise the quality of our existing interfaces, and work closely with engineers so that what gets built matches the design intent. Experience designing with the aid of AI is a strong plus, particularly using AI tools to move quickly from research insight to prototype while applying sound design judgment to what those tools produce.
• The work centers on dense, data-rich views (3D building models, linked project data, schedules and timelines, progress comparisons, video, and knowledge graphs) that need to be legible at a glance for construction professionals. Front-end fluency is valued, but the role is about research and design rather than production code.

Required Skills:

• Experience conducting field research (contextual inquiry, observation, interviews) and synthesizing findings into design direction
• Background in human-computer interaction (HCI), through a degree (e.g., MS or PhD in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field) or equivalent professional experience
• Demonstrated experience in both user research and interaction design, with a portfolio showing research that directly shaped the designer's own interaction and UI work
• Strong portfolio of UI design for complex, data-dense applications (enterprise, analytics, or technical tools)
• Expert visual and interaction design: typography, layout, hierarchy, motion, and interaction states
• Advanced Figma skills, including component libraries and interactive prototyping
• Experience creating and maintaining design systems
• Ability to critique existing interfaces and give clear, actionable direction
• Hands-on experience designing with the aid of AI, using AI tools for research synthesis, concept exploration, and rapid prototyping, and critically evaluating and refining what those tools produce
• Proactive, independent working style: raises issues early, seeks out what they need from engineers, and reviews their own work before sharing
• Responsive design for desktop and tablet/iPad interfaces

Preferred Skills:

• Experience planning and running usability studies or user evaluations
• Experience working in a research environment or contributing to HCI publications
• Experience with AI-assisted prototyping and code-generation tools to build working, testable prototypes
• Front-end fluency (HTML/CSS, React) for prototyping and close collaboration with engineers
• Experience designing AI, conversational, and multimodal interfaces, including adaptive or generated UI
• Experience designing for mobile or field use alongside desktop or office workflows
• Familiarity with construction or AEC industry applications
• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, UX/UI Design, or a related field (Master’s preferred), or equivalent experience