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Experienced UX/UI Designer

Location
London
Salary
£40,000 – £45,000
Level
Senior
Type
Full Time
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Job Description

Fancy working with brave clients that want to be challenged? Our mantra is about working with clients that dare to be different. That means rethinking the expected and imagining a reality that blows minds and boosts ideas into the stratosphere.

TYC is a design studio with a close-knit team based in London. We embrace the idea of ‘happy fish, pond of opportunity’ meaning you can really make a difference to your pond. TYC is a place where team members work creatively and collaboratively to shape their future together.

We have a very exciting opportunities for experienced UX/UI Designers (both middleweight and senior) to join our creative team on a full time basis. We are looking for candidates with a proven track record of successfully creating exciting user journeys, flows, sketches, wireframes, prototypes and visual designs across both web and apps within the Retail, Finance, Consumer Tech, Food and Beverage, Health and Wellbeing, Property Development, Hospitality and Transport sectors.

The perfect candidates must be well versed in best practice brand experience design and must have a detailed understanding of the creative and brand strategy processes in order to work alongside our creative and strategy teams. Candidates must be able to work across multiple projects and have a proven experience of working with blue chip companies as well as entrepreneurs and start-ups, across all aspects of the design life cycle.

Roles and responsibilities

  • Receiving and interpreting client briefs
  • Running client and team meetings / workshops
  • Gathering and evaluating user requirements in collaboration with the wider project team
  • Developing strategies derived from data and evidence, and turning these into digital designs and solutions
  • Capable of working within a multi-disciplinary design team to design, deliver and intrinsically understand user journeys and user interface design that will connect products to their audiences
  • Developing ideas for brand engagement, user experience and interaction design
  • Development of 2D visual design concepts and finalising through design development
  • Developer liason and management
  • Client liaison, review and signoff
  • Leadership, inspiration and direction of junior members of the creative team
  • Keeping up to date with trends and a love for all that’s new and innovative
  • Developing existing client relationships and supporting the farming of new work
  • Supporting new business activities and winning new clients.

This is a client-facing role that requires the person to be able to engage and manage clients in a proactive manner. There will be regular client meetings and site visits, however the day to day will be conducted in our office in London. The person will be required to document meetings, produce presentations and create all project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard.

Working as part of the creative team, the person will be expected to work with guidance from our Director of Branding and Creative Director, along with other members of the Senior Management team. We expect this person to be completely self-sufficient in terms of working across multiple projects, managing their time efficiently and generating project deliverables. You will need to be constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback. Whether through hands-on user research, or by designing options for multi-variant testing

Specific skills required for the role

  • Excellent idea and concept generation abilities
  • Experience in designing for consumer facing brands and B2B brands
  • Experience in creating user journeys, creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, sitemaps process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
  • Ability to deliver outstanding user experience providing an exceptional and intuitive application design
  • Experience of collecting, researching, investigating and evaluating user requirements
  • Ability to design of graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
  • Ability to identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
  • Experience in designing websites and applications for smart devices, including liaison with web developers
  • Extensive experience in creating stunning visually stunning and intuitive interfaces for websites, apps or even games
  • Expert knowledge of user tools such as Sketch, Invision, Figma or Adobe XD
  • Very confident executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand over to developer teamVery confident in managing suppliers (e.g. developers)
  • Outstanding client liaison and management skills
  • Good team leadership skills
  • Excellent ability to produce all project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard
  • Expert Apple Mac user
  • Experienced user of MS Office
  • Expert user of Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Excellent story boarding and creation of presentations using Adobe InDesign
  • Beneficial to have build / code, motion design & copywriting skills

Who will you be?

You’ll be your own person. Be confident in who you are, stand up for what you believe and never hide what you know. You’ll share everything you know to help others around you grow and flourish whilst be inquisitive to ask them questions back. People will describe your knowledge and energy as infectious. You’ll of course have a passion for what you do (otherwise why are you doing it?!), bring energy to the team and help grow our culture. And you’ll know your stuff. You’ll not bluff your way through, never lie and always have TYC front of mind.

What we’ll do for you

In exchange for bringing it everyday, we’ll ensure you’ll manage a wide variety of creative challenges, work with Global Brands and entrepreneurs, have exposure to many different aspects of the business and continue to learn at every step of the way. We’ll support you and believe in you. You’ll get a strong work life balance. You’ll be involved in all our cultural activities.

And lastly

You’ll be part of an agency whose profits go towards affecting climate, demographic and economic change. At a time where we’re all telling our clients to have a bigger purpose, we’re leading the way and showing others how its done.

The role is studio based as we are a business built on its culture and post lockdown, every member of staff has asked to come back to the studio. That said we have adopted a hybrid model which can be discussed post the probation period.