Senior UX Designer

Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.

Role

We are looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 6-months contract role. What you will be doing:

• Envision and create a design system (primarily in Figma)
• Work closely with and support the UX/Product Design Teams and dev/engineering teams, across multiple products.
• Help development teams create components by ensuring its built according to design and interaction specifications.
• Maintain the design system, create, and update documentation, and library components.
• Establish design standards and principles accompanying the design system for scalability, efficiency, and consistency.
• Evaluate and improve usability and accessibility of components and be a champion for the user.
• Work with product designers by providing clear feedback on usage, conventions, and patterns.
• Improve the design to development handoff process.
• Give clear and usable guidance/feedback to product designers, help create new components, and promote best practices.
• Participate in the full product development process using relevant tools.
• Occasionally conduct/participate in research that is relevant to building the design system.
• Uphold a high standard for design excellence and contribute to raising the bar for design at our company.
• Participate in our design community.

What we are looking for:

• Completed IT / BSc degree or other related fields
• 5 years working in a digital design profession as a UX designer, UI designer, interaction designer, product designer, or similar.
• Very clear demonstrable experience building design systems, component libraries, and/or UI Kits (if you cannot show this, please do not apply).
• End-to-end design skills including very strong graphic/UI/visual design skills.
• Outstanding portfolio showing deep product understanding and craftsmanship and innovative solutions from conception to launch.
• Very knowledgeable of user-centric processes and design thinking principles
• Experienced and highly knowledgeable about differences in designing for multiple platforms, devices.
• Experience creating and maintaining clean design system documentation.
• Solid understanding of design theory (typography, colour, grid, etc.)
• Knowledge of accessibility standards/patterns and designing for accessibility

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.