User Interface Designers

What you will do

Your role as a UI Designer at Stampede will entail ideating, producing, validating and delivering successful digital products and services in the following capacity.

Visual & interaction design

You will be contributing and setting the creative direction of user interfaces on mobile, web or other devices. You naturally explore creative concepts that align and extend the brand presence without relying on pre-made UI kits. Strong foundational graphic design skills mean you know your typography, colour and design principles well.

You will be translating our UX strategy into UI design, working closely with our design, business and tech teams to deliver high-fidelity user interfaces that are elegant, useful and feasible. You’ll start by understanding the user, designing the information they need, then producing compelling visuals and engaging interactions that will become the highlight of their experience. Your canvas will include mobile and web applications as well as responsive websites. Sometimes, large displays too.

As an extension to brand guidelines, the creation and management of cohesive design patterns and design systems will be a crucial aspect of your role. You get to ensure the application of consistent design language across a single product or a constellation of systems, and your work would influence how other designers do theirs.

Problem-solving

You will be designing for businesses and teams with high appreciation for UX. Here you will learn how to untangle the chaos and uncertainty in problem space and lead a focused and purpose-driven execution of design solution. Joining our design sprints, you get to be part of the team that deliver critical product answers in 5 days. You will spend less time getting buy in and more time doing real design work. The craftsperson in you will like that a lot.

Design validation

We’re no good designers if we don’t measure whether our solution worked. You wouldn’t miss the chance to do that either. Testing, heuristic analysis and accessibility are second nature to Stampede designers. Every test session will be thoroughly done, findings crunched and recommendations implemented. At the end of the day, you will be handing over the product to the delivery team, confident in the validity of your design solution, thanks to data from the user.

UX design

As you delve deeper into your UI craft, UX research quickly becomes a critical skill in your toolbox. You will be speaking directly with the users to gain good insights of the problems they face, and then you get to solve it for them. In Stampede, you will get to experience the whole gamut of UX design process, including qualitative and quantitative research, UX audit, design sprint, information design, usability testing and service design. These skillsets would complement your UI design well, making you a highly effective and versatile designer.

Key requirements

• Relevant academic qualifications in Graphic Design, Multimedia and relevant fields
• Good foundation design skill, knowledge and attention to detail
• Prior experience as a UI or Graphic Designer
• Strong case study and portfolio showing concept exploration, brand alignment and creative execution with human-centred focus.
• Proficient in design and prototyping tools (specifically Figma)
• Excellent communication skills and clear articulation of ideas, design rationale and recommendations
• Strong and capable team player with track record of effective collaboration with with different stakeholders
• Basic front-end development (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) skills are a plus

What matters to you

Doing the right thing

This is your true north. High integrity and ethical conduct mean a great deal to you. You would not hesitate to make decisions that are best for the greater good. And you would do this even when no one is watching. When having to choose between easy shortcuts or facing the discomfort of growth because it’s the right thing to do, you won’t even pause to choose. If you’ve read Simon Sinek, doing the right things is probably your why. It is also ours.

Collaboration and working with others

As a designer, you enjoy engaging with others, and you take an active interest in being a contributor and a positive influence on your team. Whether it’s users you’re designing for or team members you’re working with, you’re genuinely interested in their perspectives and needs that might be different from your own. You seek to understand others and develop empathy for people around you. You take ownership of your team’s goals and naturally enjoy working together to solve complex problems with clients and colleagues, even cross-functional teams. You go to great lengths to align everyone on a shared goal, and you share constructive feedback with your colleagues that comes from a place of care.

Solving problems, not gathering requirements

Problem-solving is second nature to you. You’re equally adept in both the problem and solutions spaces. The double diamond? You have seen the whole insides of it.

You don’t expect business to dictate to you the requirements. Instead, show you a problem, and you’ll work with others at the intersection of visual design, content and technology to get things cooking.

Your UX work is based on design, business and tech goals without losing focus on the user. Your solution is a constant balancing act between the business viability, technical feasibility and user’s desirability. As a designer, you have great respect for developers, and you care about translating UX value to the business. You know that design is not art and UX without ROI is no good.

Communicating clearly and empathically

You are a big fan of effective communication. As a researcher, advocating for the user through positive engagement with others is very important to you.

Your communication style is clear, professional, motivated, reflective and articulate. When faced with a complex problem, your style of communicating lends clarity and inspires action. When possible, you opt for visually communicating what you have in mind because it allows others to share that vision.

You write because it creates clarity. Through your written rationales, you walk others into your thought process for each UX design component and how they serve the product goal. Be it wireframes, sticky notes or a Miro board, you seek to make the abstract more tangible because shared understanding gets your team closer to the goal. At the end of the day, as a designer, you design people’s experience of interacting with you.

Seeing both the forests and the trees

You can deep dive and resurface in and out of multiple product designs without getting the bends. Your critical thinking and problem-solving skills are applicable to micro product detail, but you also appreciate the view offered at the product strategy level. Being a designer who is nimble allows you to adapt to the challenges ahead of you. Designing for multiple products and industries allows you to connect the dots so much faster and better than your contemporaries.