Game UI/UX Designer: Craft Immersive Menus & Interfaces

Keywords Studios; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 72,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking a User Interface Artist to shape the visual quality and usability of the game’s UI, collaborating with artists, designers, engineers and technical artists to deliver polished UI assets. You will concept and design UI screens, HUD layouts, icons, menus and interactive elements, ensuring consistency with the project’s art direction and technical requirements.

This contract role offers the opportunity to contribute across platforms and engines, including mobile and

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a UI Artist or similar role in game development.
• Experience on at least one shipped or live game title, ideally on mobile.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating UI art skills, including menus, HUDs, icons, buttons, visual hierarchy, layout, and polished final UI assets.
• Good understanding of mobile UI constraints, including readability, screen resolution, aspect ratios, touch interaction, and asset optimisation.
• Experience with Unity, Unreal, or proprietary engines is a plus.
• Experience with UI animation, motion design, or 3D UI elements is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Concept and design UI and HUD layouts and assets, including menus, icons, buttons, frames, panels, and other interface elements, from wireframes and mock-ups through to final in-engine implementation.
• Develop clear and visually appealing UI solutions that bring simplicity and user‑friendliness to complex design challenges.
• Ensure the user interface experience is intuitive, readable, and consistent, while remaining faithful to the overall art direction.
• Maintain a consistent visual aesthetic across all UI assets and screens.
• Work with the Lead Artist, Designers, Engineers, and Technical Artists to produce well‑optimised assets in line with technical requirements and production conventions.
• Create wireframes, mock‑ups, user flows, and visual prototypes in collaboration with Designers to communicate interaction and layout ideas.
• Support the creation and layout of animated UI elements and, where required, 3D UI elements.
• Review existing UI layouts, menus, and assets, and propose visual and usability improvements.
• Clearly articulate the reasoning behind design choices and respond constructively to feedback.
• Engage in the wider design and art process, providing feedback and suggestions to help deliver the best possible user interface experience.
• Participate in task planning, estimation, and scheduling with the Lead Artist and Production Team.

Skills

UI/UX design

Mobile UI

Visual design

Iconography

Typography

Wireframes

Prototyping

Collaboration

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

After Effects

Spine

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking a User Interface Artist to shape the visual quality and usability of the game’s UI, collaborating with artists, designers, engineers and technical artists to deliver polished UI assets. You will concept and design UI screens, HUD layouts, icons, menus and interactive elements, ensuring consistency with the project’s art direction and technical requirements.

This contract role offers the opportunity to contribute across platforms and engines, including mobile and