Protected: Be a Fabulous Freelance UX Designer for Kudoz

We’re looking for a user experience designer with demonstrated expertise in user research, user interface design and css to join our small, but mighty freelance team. You’ll work alongside our front-end (React) and back-end (Python) developer to make a more beautiful and usable platform by observing and collecting feedback from users and staff.

We’re a small and agile team that likes to get their hands dirty! That means your design & research work will be built quickly, and you’ll be able to see the impact of what you’re doing right away! You’ll help define the product roadmap. You’ll also get into the design side and try your hand at python and the back-end development side of work.

? Looking for work that has impact and a tangible social purpose

? Interested in working freelance on an ongoing basis

⛰️ Available to meet weekly in Vancouver

⏳Comfortable working independently, creating estimates and managing your time

?Deep appreciation of aesthetics and what shapes user behaviour

?Strong User Interface Design portfolio in browser-based and mobile apps: demonstrating an excellent grasp of accessibility considerations, hierarchy/information architecture and a mobile first approach.

? Experienced with Sketch, Figma, InVision, UI kits, CSS, HTML, etc

? Strong critical thinking skills, to contribute to design and planning discussions

? Systems oriented: from logic models… to asset/component libraries… to UI kits… to user feedback, you think in systems, organize your ideas logically and value consistency and scalability

?You’re comfortable deploying your CSS changes in a Git environment

?Bonus: Experienced/Interested in KPIs, benchmarking, analytics, metrics, data and evaluation

• 20-30 hours a week
• Based in Vancouver
• Option to work from the InWithForward Shed in Mount Pleasant and the Kudoz Studio near Metrotown in Burnaby

Please drop our Tech Lead, Lisa Joy, an email at [email protected] by August 30 at midnight.

Let us know why this role interests you, and what relevant experience you have along with links to your work: github ID, portfolio, platforms/apps you’ve created.