UX/UI designer

Wanted: UI/UX Designer“Life is too short for ugly UI.” - anonymous wise guy (must be Pika-so)

Who are we? We are an “old startup”. We recently spun-off from muvee, one of the pioneering global software startups from Singapore. muvee invented automatic video editing in 2002, garnering 26 patents in the process...and now we at photobook.ai are bringing all that smart storytelling goodness to automate the creation of photobooks. Our SDK currently powers popular photobook companies in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, Brazil, Kenya and South Africa. Next stop, China, Germany, Italy and...Timbuktu? So yeah, we are kind of global. We are just missing JB, Bintan, and Batam. The code we write typically gets pre-installed on gazillions of mobile phones (500m and counting). Not bad for a bunch of geeks coding from a little red dot.

Who are you?You are the person who is going to make us look good. You are going to wrap all our amazing brainiac code into something actually usable. You are a UI and UX designer with experience in App and Web site design, you have already worked for tech companies and know how to communicate (and deal) with product managers and developers. You are passionate about your designs and will defend them by providing the rationale behind your decisions, but you will at the same time have an open mind for feedback and peer’s contribution. You want to build applications that people use, that bring a smile to users’ faces. You are COMPLETELY user-centric and very sensitive to user interaction and app design aesthetics. Bonus level unlock…Extra brownie points if you are passionate about photography, typography, magazine layouts and experience in print art-direction, with a god-given eye for colour treatment and composition.

Responsibilities
Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions, product direction, visuals and user-experience;
Communicate design ideas using user-stories, user flows, process flows, sample pages, site maps and wireframes, as well as present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to the team;
Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering;
Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks;
Own and maintain the website in terms of design, content and occasional updates;
Incorporate functionalities and features into websites and Apps;

Requirements
Relevant training/certification (Diploma/Degree) in a related field
Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio
Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools such as Figma or Marvelapp
Proficiency in front-end development web programming languages such as HTML and CSS JQuery, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping
Proficiency in content management systems. (WordPress)
Good understanding of search engine optimization principles
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
Other details...title, hours, benefits...We believe in finding the right person; everything else is negotiable. You can have any title you want, we don’t care for “ranks” so you can call yourself the "Pixel Barista", or simply “The UI Fella”. We are looking for someone to join our team remotely. Preferably from the Philippines. Ping us at ----------