UX Designer - Mumbai, India - Paper Plane Design Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Description

About Us

PaperPlane is a UX Design Agency focused on combining user centred design with cutting edge technology to deliver compelling experiences that moves markets and transform businesses.

We have been doing this for more than 22 years.

We are committed to building world-class digital products and experiences in an environment where designers and engineers love to work.

PaperPlane has proudly followed and stood by its mission statement of No Mediocrity through it's journey. Our team is small, tightly knit with every member closely supporting each other. We bounce ideas off one another; review each other's work, and pitch-in to help other team members as needed. We find this expands the broad set of skills the team possesses.


The Opportunity

• Create/Understand/Refine a creative brief before conceptualising your design solution.
• Obtain client/market research data through customer visits, user interviews, questionnaires, analytics and other mechanisms to collect user insights.
• Analyse user research data to identify user needs/frustrations, develop interaction models, communication systems, user personas & audience segments, storyboards, scenarios & tasks.
• Conduct workshops with clients & users to understand business objectives & user needs.
• Analyse competitor strategies to help clients adapt and evolve existing engagement strategies.
• Engage with users to test prototype designs to identify usability flaws.
• Identify UX issues and provide solid UX recommendations.
• Visualise information architectures, create interaction models & define task flows / user journeys.
• Create, Ideate and present design ideas & concepts through one, or more, medium depending on the project needs and maturity of the client. These could include presenting design mockups, storyboards, wire frames, prototypes, interaction patterns, or a product walkthrough to internal/client teams for feedback and approval.
• Understand responsive design needs and champion the implementation of responsive designs with your development team, at times, with client teams.
• Provide a high quality visual design layer for defined wireframes keeping in mind grids and responsive design requirements/standards. At times you will need to design mobilefirst.
• Use aesthetic styles and imagery, and modern page layouts (screen schematics) and interaction flows (user paths).
• Communicate your design/interaction needs via annotations, design guidelines and style sheets documented as part of the design process delivered to the development team as they build out your designs.
• Proactively research & learn new, or reemerging frontend technologies and leverage capabilities to facilitate an improved user experience.

This is the right place for you, if:

• You are academically qualified in Interaction Design, HCI or a related design field.
• You are a blackbelt in Adobe CS [Xd, Ps, Il, Id], and/or Sketch.
• You understand HTML / CSS and know their capabilities & limitations.
• You are uptodate with the latest developments in User Interface design best practices.
• You want to design useful, usable, accessible, branded and visually appealing user experiences.
• You are comfortable working on a Mac.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You have a keen eye for detail and take pride in the quality of your output.
• You can work autonomously and collaboratively to bring projects to completion.

Additional brownie points if you have:

• excellent visual design skills and some branding experience

- experience in User-Centred Design methodologies across large projects.
- worked in a StartUp
- knowledge of HTML, XHTML and JS constraints to help you make good design decisions.

If this is youwe'd like you to board PaperPlane.


What You'll Love:

• Team Lunches & Outings when we can all meet again :)
• Work From Home until pandemic conditions pass

• Present Fundae's

• Our monthly Knowledge Sharing Sessions
• Medical and Accident Insurance
• Internet & Travel Reimbursements
• Tremendous scope for personal growth and progression we embrace your professional development goals and facilitate learning in your passionate areas

PaperPlane is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We value diversity.

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital/civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, disability or race.

Salary:
Up to ₹450,000.00 per year


Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Mumbai, Maharashtra: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

- total work: 1 year (preferred)


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