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UX Designer II (People App, Games)
People Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Design end-to-end user experiences for casual games, focusing on onboarding, daily engagement, and player retention. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into interactive prototypes and high-fidelity mockups.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating on user research, translating business requirements into concrete ideas, and refining and iterating on those ideas for delivering to engineering teams
- Designing the overall functionality of products and iterating upon it to ensure a great user experience
- Thoroughly understanding the wants and needs of users
- Creating and refining core gameplay mechanics and interaction patterns — designing them as scalable, reusable systems that support multiple titles and cross-game retention and monetization strategies
- Translating user needs and business requirements into concrete ideas, wireframes, and mockups
- Building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
- Applying creative problem solving to the design, processes, and tooling of the system itself
- Documenting design guidelines, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed
- Helping lead efforts to build accessible digital products, building awareness, and accountability across the rest of the product organization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent education and experience
- 4-7 years as a UX Designer for mass-market Web and Mobile products
- Strong UX and Game Design skills, including user flows, wireframing, game mechanics, and interaction design
- User experience skills including user research and usability testing
- Direct experience developing and shipping casual games with a focus on player engagement and retention
- Experience building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong visual design skills, especially visual interface and typography
- Familiarity with atomic design methodology and an interest in the challenges that come with building and maintaining design systems
- Expertise in UX software such as Figma
- Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus
- A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns
Benefits
- Hourly rate: $65
- 40 hours a week
- Start date: ASAP
- End date: 6 months with potential to extend
- Location: NYC or Seattle Office - Hybrid
Key Skills
About People Inc.
People Inc. is the leading non-profit human services agency throughout Western New York and the Greater Rochester region. Through a variety of services including residential, employment, community outreach, health care and recreation programs, we help seniors, families and people with disabilities live more healthy, independent and productive lives. The Mission of People Inc.: People Inc. exists so that individuals with disabling conditions or other special needs have the supports they need to participate and succeed in an accepting society. The Vision of People Inc.: People Inc. is working toward a future where all persons whose needs limit their integration into the community can reach their highest level of human potential as responsible members of society. It is hoped that these individuals will, to their potential, be contributing and active members in their communities, enjoying the greatest possible degree of independence and acceptance, in all aspects of their lives. People
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