UI / UX Designer

GigaLayer is empowering businesses and individuals with tools and services to support their online presence. We are doing this by building a foundation of incredible technology & design in the hosting industry and most importantly we are just getting started.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: UI / UX Designer
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time

About the position

• We are looking for an experienced UI Designer to create amazing user experiences, helping our products to be highly attractive and competitive.
• You should be keen in clean and artful design and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artefacts, creating beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces for our web developement and projects.

The Responsibilities

• Work together with product management and engineering to build innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Participate in all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Develop original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Prepare wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Discuss designs and key milestone deliverables with peers and executive level stakeholders
• Perform user research and evaluate user feedback
• Set design guidelines, best practices and standards
• Stay up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies

Our Requirements

• 2+ years' experience of working on a UI Designer position
• Profound UI design skills with a solid portfolio of design projects
• Significant experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Significant experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools
• Good practical experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping.
• Strong visual design skills with good understanding of user-system interaction
• Strong presentational and team player abilities
• Strong problem-solving skills with creative approach
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• BS or MS degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or other related area