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UI Designer (m/f/x) in Cape Town

Itonics Gmbh β€’ Cape Town, South Africa πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦

Hybrid Full-time

As a UI Designer, you will own the visual and structural quality of the web experience, shaping user interactions and creating modern interfaces. You will collaborate closely with frontend developers to turn design ideas into functional modules.

Responsibilities

  • Design clean, modern, and consistent website interfaces that reflect the ITONICS brand
  • Plan intuitive navigation, page architectures, and user journeys
  • Apply UX best practices to streamline interactions and reduce friction
  • Ensure accessibility and inclusive design standards are met across all pages
  • Design Systems: Leverage and improve our Design System to streamline development and maintain design consistency
  • Illustration design: Improve/create icons/illustrations for all our channels
  • Create high-quality icons, graphics, illustrations, banners, and reusable UI elements
  • Build and maintain a scalable visual identity across the entire site
  • Design interactive components, micro-interactions, and animations
  • Optimize visual assets for page speed and performance
  • Work closely with frontend developers to create lightweight homepage and landing-page modules
  • Translate Figma concepts into developer-ready specifications
  • Ensure all designs are modular, feasible, and aligned with our design framework
  • Participate in implementation reviews to safeguard visual quality
  • Support decisions on frameworks, UI libraries, templates, and reusable modules
  • Maintain scalable structures for layout systems, templates, and page flows
  • Collaborate with developers to ensure architecture supports both performance and creativity
  • Apply SEO-friendly design practices to improve visibility and ranking
  • Optimize for Core Web Vitals: layout stability, loading speed, and responsiveness
  • Ensure fully responsive layouts across all devices
  • Coordinate with content teams to align design and SEO strategy

Requirements

  • Degree in Design, Digital Media, or related field
  • Expert skills in Figma, including component design and prototyping
  • Strong understanding of UX fundamentals and modern web patterns
  • Solid knowledge of HTML & CSS basics and how UI decisions affect frontend
  • Experience creating icons, illustrations, micro-interactions, and animations
  • Ability to work systematically, manage multiple deliverables, and hit deadlines
  • Strong visual taste and high attention to detail

Key Skills

  • Figma
  • UX fundamentals
  • Modern web patterns
  • HTML & CSS basics
  • UI design
  • Illustration design
  • Motion design (nice to have)
  • Vector-based animations (nice to have)
  • HubSpot (nice to have)
  • CMS/CRM ecosystems (nice to have)
  • Modular component-based systems (nice to have)
  • SEO principles (nice to have)
  • Performance-driven design (nice to have)
  • Accessibility (WCAG) standards (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid setup
  • Strong medical aid support
  • Competitive compensation
  • Company that invests in your growth
  • Modern tools
  • Top equipment
  • Supportive environment where designers can thrive

About Itonics Gmbh

ITONICS is a leading SaaS provider of systematic innovation management. Our AI-powered platform, combined with a systematic framework to steer innovation efforts, helps companies to identify emerging technologies, trends, and market potential and to translate them into winning growth strategies. βœ”οΈ Environmental Scanning βœ”οΈ Strategic/ Continuous Foresight βœ”οΈ Ideation/ Idea Management βœ”οΈ Open Innovation βœ”οΈ Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management βœ”οΈ Integrated Roadmapping With more than 150 innovation rockstars worldwide, we support innovation leaders such as adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens, or KPMG. To learn more about ITONICS, visit www.itonics-innovation.com and to join our team, visit www.itonics-innovation.com/career

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