UX Designer Job Vacancy at Paper Plane Design Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai, Maharashtra (Remote)

Job Description

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.

Education

• You are academically qualified in Interaction Design, HCI or a related design field.

Qualification

• You are academically qualified in Interaction Design, HCI or a related design field.
• You have 1-5 years experience in user experience design or application interface development.
• You are a black-belt in Adobe CS [Xd, Ps, Il, Id], and/or Sketch.
• You understand HTML / CSS and know their capabilities & limitations.
• You are up-to-date 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.

Roles & Responsibilities

• 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 mock-ups, storyboards, wire frames, prototypes, interaction patterns, or a product walk-through 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 mobile-first.
• 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 re-emerging front-end technologies and leverage capabilities to facilitate an improved user experience.

About Company

Over the past 10 years, Paper Plane has evolved from a boutique design consultancy into a full-service, design house with a sharp focus on User Experience Design, Usability & Digital Marketing - we call it Performance Design.

We support our global clients as they capture their addressable markets consisting Fortune 500 firms, the largest Hedge Funds, leading financial institutions and of course, their own customers. At the same time, we help top rung Indian firms fulfill their pledge to customers by enhancing their online presence, services and product interfaces to make them more stunning, usable and intuitive.

On its journey, Paper Plane designed cutting-edge interfaces and online strategies for leading brands in travel, banking & financial services, and lifestyle. We have also incubated two online businesses in travel and premium local search, both of which are now flourishing online businesses. Our core focus remains delivering high quality User Interface & Experience Design primarily to the Indian and US markets.

Our sense of perfection is not for the faint hearted and our clients consistently find us battling on behalf of their customers, without whom we would not be in business. Obviously, the final deliverable will be truly value-added, and have a seamless User Experience.

None of this would be possible without those that support it. The Paper Plane team is a collection of individuals who have taken it upon themselves to create a culture of relentless precision and attention to detail making for a highly professional environment. Each one brings with them their own unique strengths contributing to the exciting, dynamic environment that is Paper Plane.

Paper Plane stands tall when design quality is under discussion, our unshakeable belief in the user and our battle-cry - "No Mediocrity", has given rise to an internal design standard that effectively supports client needs. Our fanatical focus on detail gives you Pixel Perfection, without project delays.