Overview
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Afrikindness is seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to join our team. This role is critical in designing children/parent-friendly assets to support our mission of promoting inclusion, breaking cultural barriers and promoting kindness.
What difference will you make?
Your input will shape how we present ourselves to our service users, stakeholders, funders and the general public. With your help, we will be able to continue our service to children, young people and families. The designs and user flows you create will be fundamental components of our website and apps, allowing us to engage parents and young people, local councils and authorities, NHS trusts, corporate teams, and communities. This will increase our reach and impact in communities ensuring we can support more young people in the UK and Africa.
What you will gain
The opportunity to apply your professional skills to support a meaningful cause. Experience working on projects that have a tangible impact on the community. The chance to enhance your portfolio with diverse and challenging projects. Flexible remote work that fits into your schedule.
Responsibilities
* Execution of user research and usability tests to understand customer needs, pain points, and integrate feedback and preferences to education (children/parent) products and services, through collaboration with various stakeholders, including developers.
* Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for a seamless and engaging user experience.
* Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the charity's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products.
* Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development.
* Accessibility considerations to ensure that designs comply with accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users.
* Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation.
* Commit to a minimum of 3 hours weekly, contributing to the design and success of Afrikindness's digital initiatives.
Qualifications and Skills
* At least 3 years of digital design experience in an agency setting.
* Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to deliver premier visual design solutions; strategic insight into UX.
* Strong portfolio demonstrating understanding of user experience, visual design, and branding for digital products.
* Experience creating innovative design concepts for digital products and marketing websites; ability to design wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.
* Ability to collaborate with developers to oversee design implementation and ensure quality of the end product.
* Excellent attention to detail and communication skills; ability to work remotely.
* Passionate about contributing to charitable causes and willing to volunteer time to support Afrikindness's mission.
What will you be doing?
The UI/UX designer will execute user research and usability tests to understand the customer needs, pain points, and integrate feedback and preferences to education (children/parent) products and services, through collaboration with various stakeholders, including developers. The designer will work alongside other creative designers, website developers and IT professionals to create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for a seamless and engaging user experience.
Location: West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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