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UI/UX Designer - 6 Month Contract
Blackbird Interactive Remote (🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Adapt an established simulation game's UI/UX for new platforms and display environments while preserving core gameplay workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine navigation, readability, and accessibility for various input methods.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with design, art, engineering, and production to adapt existing UI and UX systems for new platforms
- Review existing interfaces and identify opportunities to improve navigation, readability, accessibility, and overall user experience
- Design user flows, wireframes, mockups, and interface layouts that support new input methods and platform-specific interaction patterns
- Maintain consistency with the established visual style, information hierarchy, and interaction patterns of the original game
- Participate in reviews, playtests, and usability evaluations, using player feedback and observations to refine designs
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience in UI/UX design for games
- Experience designing interfaces for complex gameplay systems or feature-rich applications
- Strong understanding of information hierarchy, readability, usability, accessibility, and interaction design principles
- Familiarity with industry-standard design tools such as Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar
- Ability to work independently, manage tasks, and iterate on feedback in a production environment
Key Skills
About Blackbird Interactive
Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio - behind such games as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming Homeworld 3, Minecraft Legends, and Crossfire: Legion. Founded by Rob Cunningham, Yossarian King, and Aaron Kambeitz in 2010, the award-winning Vancouver studio boast its own internal CG cinematics department, led by the founder of Pixar Canada, and has also been involved in various game-adjacent projects over the years - such as Project Eagle with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other initiatives with the eatART Foundation and Sanctuary AI. BBI was listed among the fastest growing Canadian companies by revenue in 2020 and 2021 by The Globe and Mail and Deloitte. https://linktr.ee/BlackbirdInteractive.com
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