Oct 5, 2022
As a UI/UX Designer, you are responsible for designing and prototyping user interfaces for various websites from concept and wireframing to developing interactive prototypes. While your design needs to respect our design philosophy and be in accordance with our design systems, we expect you to reflect on and contribute to these systems since you will be the first hire in this position. Hence, it is important that you can expand and contribute to the foundations of our design language. Our team is currently 120+ core contributors strong and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.
Your design process drives from research and concept development. Your design reflects upon problems and not trends; your design has a story
You are aligned with our vision; believing trust-minimized technologies will pave the way to a world where more humane social institutions and fairer means of governance can emerge, and are accessible to anyone in the world with an internet connection
You believe in decentralized and distributed design languages
You are bored with the current Web design standards and you are eager to research and create new standards
You are sensitive to typography and layout design, still you value editorial design the same as visual design
You are a systematic thinker who is capable of designing design systems and design kits
We do not care about diplomas nor years of experience. It is you and your portfolio which is important.
You will be designing and prototyping the UI for all of our web-based projects
You will design, document, maintain and develop further our design systems and branding assets
Extensive knowledge of designs tools suitable for everything from UX to (micro) interactions (e.g. Figma, Framer)
Good knowledge and understanding of design systems, typography and designing layout
Experience or interest in building experimental digital projects such as experimental publishing design, computational design, generative art or memes
Authenticity in design and being able to staying away from design trends (especially trends in web3) and yet be able to adopt those styles if needed
Experience collaborating with stakeholders to identify and design for user goals
A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
You are comfortable working remotely and asynchronously
You have experience working for an open source organisation
You have experience in designing publishing mediums such as online readers, zines, books and online publishing platforms
[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].