UI/UX Designer – Internship

ROLE EXPECTATIONS & BRIEF

Are you the one who’s obsessed with quality and pixel-perfect designs? That’s what we wanted! You are eligible to apply if you’re a freethinker, who visualizes what others don’t and are comfortable outside the box. 

• We are looking for someone with a go-get attitude and who wants to crave knowledge in a high pace environment
• You should be excited about research & analysis and open-minded with an unquenchable thirst for new approaches and solutions.
• We are looking for a creative and talented UI/UX Designer (intern) to join our team. 
• In this role, you will be responsible for designing and delivering exceptional user interfaces for our web and mobile applications.

Join us if you’re committed to making each human interaction — visual, audial, and interactive — amazing for our customers

[A] KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build business and customer facing products in a meaningful and delightful way. 
• Should maintain Intense focus on simplicity and usability
• Ability to conceptualize, design, and create the user experience for all ZAG products and services
• Design and create products that are not only beautiful, but also intuitive and useful. 
• Translate requirements from the PRDs into concepts into wireframes and mock-ups that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Design and deliver high fidelity wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and interactive mock-ups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Present and justify your design decisions and stick to well-known design guidelines while designing interfaces. 
• Dive deep into data and understand user-patterns, behaviors and bring out appropriate solutions for the product. 
• Collaborate with our designers, developers and stakeholders to translate ideas into a reality. 
• Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes and best practices in design.
• Understand the requirement and build graphics, web and mobile screens, and create coherent UI
• Work closely with Engineers, Project Managers, and Developers to implement, review, refine and iterate user experiences
• Manage high expectations, differing opinions, difficult constraints, and hard timelines
• Drive a design culture that emphasizes data and user research
• Conduct user research and usability testing to gather and evaluate user requirements
• Develop user interface designs for web and mobile applications
• Create and maintain design systems, style guides, and design documentation
• Design interactive systems that are easily maintainable, expandable, and comfortable to use while injecting fun into the user experience for creating new paradigms

[B] EDUCATION & SKILLS REQUIREMENT

• 0-1 years of work experience with a focus on product design and UI across a variety of platforms like mobile, web or app.
• Strong portfolio showcasing design process, UI/UX, problem-solving skills, and visual design 
• Have a good understanding of prototyping & Information Architecture
• Brilliant problem solver, quick study, self-starter, and excellent communicator with a passion for great design and the ability to achieve it. 
• Possess a rare blend of interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills. 
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies
• Experience with usability testing and user research
• Experience in crafting product experiences for multiple screen sizes & platforms (preferred)
• Should be a self starter and have ability to work with minimal or no supervision
• Highly passionate about building products that create a significant impact in user lives
• An excellent sense of visual (typography, font pairings, color theory & visual hierarchy) and interaction skills (micro-interactions & animations) along with proficiency in UI and interaction design tools – Sketch / Figma / After Effects / Photoshop / etc
• Feed design experience with a passion and eye for visual detail in proportion, type, motion, and interaction
• Demonstrable fluency with photoshop/ Illustrator, or other design tools
• Ability to clearly communicate concepts and designs through prototypes, sketches, high-fidelity comps, and presentations
• Understanding of how to advocate for user experience with peer teams like engineering, operations and business

[E] INTERNSHIP DETAILS