UI/UX Designer [Contractor or Freelance]

StarApps is a boutique venture builder. We turn game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs. StarApps is co-founded and funded by a team of serial entrepreneurs from Ghent who invented apps which helped hundreds of millions of people in the social, personal, financial or business aspects of their life.

Tasks

• Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile and web.
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership.
• Collaborate with venture builders and pilot users throughout the design process
• Participate in the development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance.
• Stay abreast of UX trends and look for creative ideas and inspiration in parallel analogous worlds.
• Research and track advancements in design patterns.
• Break any design problem down into viable actionable chunks and solve them with clarity and precision.
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in the design field.

Requirements

• Strong graphic design skills, with a good understanding of typography, intuitive layouts and palate development.
• A bachelor s or higher degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, cognitive science or related field. A master s degree is preferred.
• Strong ability to recognize and predict use-cases and user interaction, including happy path, edge and corner cases, and incorporate them into designs.
• Excellent understanding of user-experience design for mobile and the web, technology trends, demonstrable design skills, and ability to show relevant work.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality designs to customers.
• A team player who can easily adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
• Expert level skills in most relevant design tools.
• Deep understanding of Apple s human interface design guidelines, Android design and other mobile platform designs, including Google s material design.

Benefits

• Compensation as freelancer, contractor or via outsourced payroll
• Ability to earn equity in the ventures you help building and growing