UI/UX Designer (Contract)

Nex; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 335,000 - 614,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Vacation policy

Product-driven culture

Exposure to cutting-edge gaming tech

Job summary

Nex seeks an exceptionally talented UI/UX Designer to shape the future of active motion gaming. You will visualize intuitive, high-impact interfaces and translate motion interactions into delightful, pixel-perfect UI across ages—from kids to parents.

Work at the intersection of game UI, storytelling, and interactive design, collaborating with designers and engineers to elevate aesthetic standards and craft across our products.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating UI layout, high visual craft, color expression, visual hierarchy, and game interface design.
• Strong foundation in visual aesthetics, layout, typography, color theory, and component design.
• Ability to design across multiple visual styles and maintain pixel-perfect UI.

Responsibilities

• Define and elevate visual identity for motion-based family games.
• Produce production-ready UI components and assets adaptable to various art styles.
• Collaborate with game developers and tech artists to ensure visual fidelity and UI animations.
• Maintain high visual quality and consistency across the design system.

Skills

UI layout

Visual craft

Color theory

Typography

Iconography

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

UI prototyping/motion tools

Job description

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have FunandIs Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time Contractor, with the possibility to extend or convert
Reports to: UI/UX Design Manager

The Role

We are seeking an exceptionally talented UI/UX Designer with a strong visual impulse and elevated design craft to help shape the future of active motion gaming.

In this role, your primary strength lies in visualizing intuitive, high-impact user interfaces. You will turn complex motion interactions into visually captivating, delightful, and pixel-perfect UI experiences that resonate across diverse age groups from young kids to parents.

You will work at the intersection of game UI, visual storytelling, and interactive design, collaborating closely with game designers, and engineers to elevate the overall aesthetic standard of our products.

What You'll Do

• Define & Elevate Visual Identity: Craft stunning, dynamic visual languages and UI systems for brand-new motion-based family games, ensuring each title has a distinct, delightful, and highly polished aesthetic.
• High-Craft UI Design & Asset Production: Create production-ready UI components, visual assets and iconography that adapt seamlessly to various art styles.
• Cross-Functional Craft Delivery: Collaborate closely with game developers and tech artists to ensure visual fidelity, UI animations, and design details are executed flawlessly in the final build.
• Uphold Design Excellence: Maintain an uncompromising eye for detail, establishing best-in-class visual quality, UI consistency, and craft standards across our entire design system.

What We're Looking For

• Visual & UI Portfolio: A strong, visually driven portfolio demonstrating exceptional talent in UI layout, high visual craft, color expression, visual hierarchy, and game interface design.
• Mastery of Visual Craft: Outstanding foundation in visual aesthetics, advanced layout principles, dynamic typography, color theory, component design, and iconography.
• Tool Mastery: Deep proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), and UI prototyping/motion tools.
• Versatile Art Styles: Ability to quickly adapt and design across multiple visual styles.
• Execution & Detail Orientation: Obsessive about visual precision, alignment, and pixel perfection without losing sight of overall project timelines.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located inSan Jose, California, USAandHongKong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!

Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.

We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.