UI Designer / Illustrator

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UI Designer / Illustrator

Our client is a young, award winning company employing a great team based near Farringdon, London.

This is a rare opportunity to join this exciting company and to play a key role in the design of responsive web sites, mobile apps and company branding.

As an end to end Designer, you'll be involved right from planning to execution. Your interest and focus will be in human-centred visual design. Your strength will be in UI and visuals, with a broad knowledge of common user interface design patterns, iconography, typography and colour theory.

You are someone who realises the importance of connecting and balancing business goals with user needs. On a daily basis you will collaborate with our Developers and other team members to determine the best and most practical ways to implement your designs.

Experience:

Experience with and responsible for wireframing, visualising, and defining designs for mobile, tablet and desktop. Define and visualise user interface for both web sites, iOS and Android and device interactive behaviour based on user experiences.

Utilise Adobe Creative Suite and hand sketching to illustrate concepts and layouts for commercial promotional materials / Prepared web and print-press ready files.

Skills:

UI / UX Design

Sketch

Wireframe Production

Rapid Prototyping

Adobe Illustrator

User Research

Rapid Visualization

Adobe Photoshop

Usability Testing

Adobe Indesign

Persona Creation

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe After Effects

CSS/HTML

Sketching

Company Benefits:

Salary: Competitive (within a range depending on experience).

Working environment: Our offices are newly fitted-out with a light vibrant feel and sociable communal areas, and we work together in an open, informal and collaborative way.

Holidays: We offer 25 days’ paid holiday to take between January and December, plus 8 public holidays a year.

Working hours: 40 hours per week, 0900 to 1800 Monday to Friday.

Office treats: Free fresh fruit and snacks are provided in both offices.

Team events: A team evening meal and a team breakfast are both held regularly to socialise, build relationships, and focus on shared work activities.

Sick pay: Full pay for up to a month’s certified absence, then Statutory Sick Pay.

Pension (after 3 months): Our pension scheme with Standard Life provides company contributions to match yours up to 5%. The minimum contribution is 1%.

Gym membership discount*: up to 25% discount on annual memberships at gyms throughout the country.

Cycle to Work Scheme*: Our scheme means you can buy bikes and accessories tax-free from a network of stores and online retailers, saving on average about half the cost.

Insurance discounts*: Discounts of up to 15% on Aviva insurance for motor, travel, home and vehicle breakdown cover.

Childcare Vouchers*: A tax-efficient way to fund childcare, provided by ************.

Life Assurance*: this provides a death benefit of 2 x annual basic salary. A stress helpline, bereavement support helpline and counselling are also available.

Maternity and Paternity benefits: These are significantly above the statutory minimum.

Please contact us for further information.