UI/UX Product Designer

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an seasoned UI/UX Designer to shape visual elements across products, wireframes to interactive pages for web, mobile, and print materials. You’ll collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are implemented well across platforms.

The role emphasizes user research, UX principles, and strong UI design skills with experience in Adobe Illustrator/InDesign or HTML5 apps. Strong collaboration and prototyping are essential.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in graphic/design or related field.
• Demonstrated understanding of UX fundamentals and user research including testing.
• Minimum five years' experience designing user interfaces and/or product mockups.
• Ability to create engaging experiences that enhance UX overall.

Responsibilities

• Plan and organize architecture and development of screens in a UI.
• Provide technical direction and feedback to designers and developers on usability and interface elements.
• Incorporate usability testing into the design process and conduct accessibility research.

Skills

UX fundamentals

User research

Quantitative analysis

Prototyping

UI design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design/Interactive Media

Bachelor's degree in design

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

HTML5 apps

Job description

As a UI/UX Designer, you'll be responsible for the design of all visual elements in our products. This includes everything from wireframes to interactive web pages, mobile apps and print materials. You will work closely with Engineers and Developers to ensure that designs are implemented effectively across platforms.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Graphic Design, Interactive Media or related field required
• Bachelors degree in design or related field required
• Demonstrated ability to understand UX fundamentals and principles, as well as the value of user research, including quantitative analysis and testing.
• Demonstrated ability to create engaging user experiences that improve the overall user experience.
• Minimum of five years of experience designing user interfaces and/or product mockups.

Requirements:

• Plans and organizes the architecture and development of screens and input/output devices in a user interface (UI).
• Provides technical direction and feedback to designers, developers, and other team members on the design, usability, and appropriateness of interface elements.
• Prepares layouts Incorporates usability testing of the product into the design process
• Conducts research in usability and accessibility standards to ensure products meet global standards.
• Designs interactive interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Participates in development workflows by providing problem-solving skills during prototyping, end-to-end design work
• Develops and implements unique, creative, creative solutions to complex UX problems
• Designs visual elements in a vector drawing application such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign, or HTML5 apps such as Adobe Dreamweaver.