UI/UX Designer

Overview

Unico Connect is seeking a UI/UX Designer to craft production-ready interfaces for client web and mobile products. The role spans wireframing, high-fidelity design in Figma, contributing to client design systems, and partnering closely with engineering on dev-mode handoff. The position is well suited to early-career designers with strong fundamentals in layout, typography, and interaction design, and a willingness to grow craft within a senior design team.

Key Responsibilities

• Design responsive web and mobile interfaces in Figma including wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes

• Contribute to and extend client design systems with reusable components, tokens, and patterns

• Run early-stage user research such as usability tests, customer interviews, and competitor audits

• Iterate on designs based on Product Manager and engineering feedback; ship designs that survive production

• Maintain Figma file hygiene including variables, auto-layout, components, properties, and dev-ready specs

• Partner with frontend engineers on handoff, dev-mode specs, and post-build visual quality assurance

• Build and maintain a portfolio of explorations, motion studies, and design system improvements

• Participate in weekly design critiques and quarterly portfolio reviews

• Track design metrics including time to handoff and post-launch usability findings

• Document design decisions, accessibility considerations, and component API choices

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field; portfolio acceptable in lieu

• 1-3 years of UI/UX design experience on SaaS, mobile, or web products

• Strong portfolio demonstrating typography, layout, colour, and interaction design fundamentals

• Fluent in Figma including components, variables, auto-layout, and interactive prototyping

• Working understanding of HTML and CSS and how designs translate into production code

• Comfortable presenting design rationale to clients and internal stakeholders

• Demonstrated capacity to incorporate user research findings into design iterations

• Familiarity with responsive design and mobile interaction patterns

• Strong attention to detail with respect to spacing, alignment, and typography

• Excellent written and verbal English communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Motion design experience with Lottie, After Effects, or Rive

• Frontend coding experience in React and Tailwind

• Accessibility familiarity (WCAG 2.2 AA)

• Exposure to AI-augmented design tools (Figma AI, Galileo, Uizard)

• Hands-on with user research tooling such as Maze or Dovetail

AI Tools Proficiency

Production engineering at Unico Connect assumes AI tools form part of the daily workflow rather than an experimental augmentation. For this role specifically:

• Figma AI for component generation and design search

• Midjourney or ChatGPT Images for hero imagery and visual exploration

• Claude or ChatGPT for UX writing and microcopy

• Galileo or Uizard for early-stage ideation

• Cursor for reading frontend code during handoff conversations