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"The function of design is letting design function."
— Micha Commeren
The Associate Product Designer will execute design work within specific tasks or projects, focusing on developing foundational UX and UI skills. They will collaborate with senior designers, assist in user research, and contribute to a positive team environment.
Responsibilities
- Design & Prototyping: Organise content and navigation effectively at the application and screen level (e.g., wireframe or prototype)
- Pair with more senior designers for review and to make iterative improvements to work
- Works collaboratively with end users to sketch potential use cases, task flows, and user flows
- Demonstrate a solid foundation in typography, layout, and visual design principles
- Show creativity in determining how to solve a design problem or realise a design opportunity within the given constraints
- Organise content in a useful and meaningful way to users, showing an understanding of multiple taxonomy approaches (e.g., hierarchical, faceted)
- Demonstrate an understanding of the merits of divergent thinking to explore new ideas
- Write appropriate content with guidance from senior designers and content writers
- Research & Strategy Support: Assist in user research by taking notes during interview sessions
- Provide feedback on findings and recommendations from user research
- Assist in strategic research by providing feedback during heuristic reviews, taking notes during cognitive walkthrough sessions, or contributing to content audits
- Take direction from senior designers regarding information visualisation needs
- Contribute to conversations based on domain knowledge when appropriate, with potential knowledge in business, brand, marketing, or product strategy
- Communication & Professional Development: Communicate effectively, clearly, concisely, and in an audience-oriented way, in written and verbal form
- Actively listen to others and ensure they are understood
- Openly share opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner
- Work with teammates to resolve disagreements in a healthy manner
- Deliver on commitments with a sense of urgency and act according to task prioritisation
- Has daily conversations with the team about the progress of their work
- Seek out mentorship to grow their own experience
- Receive training from senior staff and create a professional development plan
- Work to build strong relationships with their teammates and manager
Requirements
- Problem Solving: Can confidently follow a well-established approach to the problem to be solved
- Critical Thinking: Understands the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making, and asks more senior staff for help in applying this type of thinking
- Collaboration: Helps teammates when requested and gives or shares credit where due
- Public Speaking: Ability to present informally to peers
- Estimating: Estimates task length for self
Key Skills
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Collaboration
- Public Speaking
- Estimating
About Smartbox Group
Believing that life is more fulfilled through experiences than physical goods, Smartbox Group invented the concept of experience gifts, to offer unforgettable memories. In a world where people are more than ever looking for time for themselves, and are seeking meaningful relationships, offering someone the possibility to experience something rather than offering a material gift is the most valuable and thoughtful way to tell your loved ones you love them. At Smartbox Group, all our energy and creativity are focused on the idea of providing the most beautiful gift to offer and to receive 🎁 With nearly 15,000 different products in various leisure themes : Stays, Wellness, Adventure, Gastronomy… we allow people to enrich their lives with moments of sharing, moments of emotions and unforgettable memories, by living experiences or by offering them. Living more than owning, sharing more than having is more than ever a fundamental trend in our society and that is exactly what we offer at Sm
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