Product Designer

7 days ago

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ikhokha Full time

Job Description

Are you a visionary with a passion for designing seamless, user-centred experiences?

We're looking for a talented Product Designer to help us transform ideas into innovative, user-friendly products.

If you thrive in a dynamic environment and love bringing creative concepts to life, we want to hear from you

Responsibilities

The Product Designer is responsible for creating high-quality, user-friendly interfaces across multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, web views, and card machines.

This role requires deep collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, focusing on delivering intuitive, platform-specific experiences while ensuring seamless handoff to developers through the use of best practices in design systems, prototyping, and design standards.

  1. Product Design:
  • Collaborate with the Product Design Manager to contribute to the product design strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Manage and prioritize multiple projects effectively, with a focus on delivering high-quality design outputs on time.
  • Maintain a high standard of design execution by rigorously applying UI and/or UX best practices, ensuring designs meet both user needs and business goals.
  • Facilitate the smooth handover of designs to developers, ensuring clear, well-documented files and specifications.
  • Stay up-to-date with global design standards and best practices, constantly seeking to elevate the quality of design work produced by the team.
User Experience Design:
  • Frame and understand design challenges early in the project lifecycle, incorporating user research and business problems.
  • Collaborate with research analysts to gather insights, validate hypotheses, and translate them into actionable design decisions.
  • Apply user-centred design principles throughout the design process, creating intuitive, scalable solutions that meet both user and business needs.
User Interface Design:
  • Develop user interface designs that adhere to usability heuristics while being delightful, accessible, and on-brand.
  • Utilize and contribute to the product design system, ensuring components are scalable and consistent across projects.
  • Demonstrate a deep understanding of grid systems, layouts, and responsive design, ensuring that interfaces adapt seamlessly across devices.
Collaboration and Communication:
  • Maintain excellent communication with stakeholders, ensuring design goals are clearly understood and expectations are met.
  • Use tools like Figjam and Miro for ideation and collaborative workshops, ensuring a shared understanding of project objectives.
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback to peers and foster a collaborative design environment that promotes professional growth.
Design System & Developer Collaboration:
  • Work closely with developers to ensure smooth handover and that designs are implemented to spec, leveraging Figma's Dev Mode and other collaboration tools.
  • Maintain organized and up-to-date master design files, incorporating feedback from both design and development teams.
  • Contribute to the design system by creating, maintaining, and documenting reusable components and design patterns.
Essential Collaboration & Preparation for Design Execution:
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure clear business requirements and creative briefs are provided before initiating design work.
  • Engage in a collaborative feedback loop, providing input on design efforts, timelines, and resources needed to achieve project goals.
  • Ensure mutual agreement on design deliverables, milestones, and timelines with all relevant stakeholders before commencing design work.
Qualifications

A degree or certification in Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Product Design, or a related field.

Deal breakers: 3-5 years of experience as a Product Designer with an understanding of both UX and UI practices but stronger focus on UI.

Additional Skills & Knowledge
  • Design thinking and User experience design.
  • User interface design, Design chapter contribution.
  • Software: Figma, Adobe XD, Miro.
User Interface (UI) Design
  • Proficient in creating pixel-perfect UI designs that solve customer and business problems, ensuring usability, accessibility, and brand consistency.
  • Expertise in working with Figma's advanced features such as auto layout, branching, nested layers, grids, and tokens.
  • Skilled in prototyping with interactive elements and testing flows to ensure smooth user experiences.
  • Mastery in contributing to and working with a robust design system, including working with Figma master design files, components, and variants.
User Experience (UX) Design
  • Strong expertise in human-centred design, user flows, and creating wireframes that prioritize user needs and business outcomes.
  • Experience with design thinking methodologies and usability testing to validate hypotheses.
  • Experience in facilitating research, research methodologies and synthesis of insights to guide design decisions.
  • Ability to work with business analysts and service designers to identify opportunities for improving user journeys and addressing pain points through design solutions.
Developer Handoff
  • Demonstrated experience with dev handoff using Figma's Dev Mode, ensuring designs are export-ready and accompanied by detailed design specifications.
  • Familiarity with design tokens and their application in scalable, responsive design.
  • Knowledge of how to structure and organize design files for developer collaboration, ensuring smooth transitions from design to build.
  • Ability to write clear, concise functional design documentation that outlines key design decisions, user flows, and interactions as part of the design handover process.
Collaboration & Tools
  • Strong communication skills to articulate design rationale and collaborate effectively with stakeholders, developers, and cross-functional teams.
  • Advanced proficiency with collaboration tools such as Figjam, Miro, and Slack, ensuring effective and efficient teamwork and idea generation.
  • Experience with analytical behavioural tools such as Hotjar to gather insights into user interactions, helping to inform design decisions and improve user experiences.
  • Ability to gather and incorporate feedback from stakeholders, ensuring the design aligns with business and user needs.
Additional Information

Perks of joining the Tribe?

Work in a high-growth company with tangible results you're accountable for.

Enjoy hybrid and in-office work models. Competitive remuneration and benefits, including reduced Gap cover rates.

Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions. Visionary leadership. Seize the opportunity for study leave.

Access to on-demand learning at your fingertips. Experience a friendly, collaborative culture with a team of all-round-lekker humans (it's true, we surveyed our Employees, and they told us so).

If you find yourself at HQ, coffee on tap and a selection of hot beverages provided by our very own onsite Barista.

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