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We are seeking a iOS developer to join our team at Likk LLC! Likk is a brand new, quickly growing, chat app for girls to meet girls.

We are looking for a talented, highly motivated, self-starting individual with a passion for building simple yet eye-catching UI elements. The successful candidate for this position with have well rounded experience designing and developing their own iOS forms, pop-ups, alerts, and views.

Responsibilities:

- Design iOS UI elements that match the unique Likk brand and meet our user engagement and retention goals.

- Develop UI elements in Swift and integrate with existing app code.

- Generate new ideas for user engagement to propose to the team during brainstorming sessions.

- Help identify user analytics to quantify which elements are performing the best with our users.

Qualifications:

- Experience or familiarity with the LGBTQIA community

- Bachelors degree or higher.

- 2+ years experience with iOS development in Swift.

- 1+ years UI/UX design experience.

- Willing to work remotely and on own schedule.

- Willing to communicate with team daily through Slack.

- Results driven with an ability to execute independently.

Likk is not a traditional company and we do not conduct traditional interviews. We ask qualified candidates to complete a simple project in 1-3 days.

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Experience:

• UI Design: 1 year (Preferred)
• iOS: 2 years (Required)

Work Location:

• Remote/Work from home

Hours per week:

• 10-19

Business Job Title: UI/UX Designer

Total # Positions: 1

Job Level and Job Category: C1 / Product Management

Location: Boston-501 Boylston or Centennial-2154 East Common or San Francisco-1301 Sansome

1301 Sansome Street

Job Duration: 9 month(s)

Estimated Hours Worked Per Week: 40

Start Date: ASAP

Job Summary/Description:

Pearson is transforming itself into a truly digital education company, and to support the core strategy of improving learning outcomes through world class content and assessment, we are seeking an experienced User Experience Prototyper to join our our team of designers and researchers. We’re looking for that unique candidate who bridges all the worlds that are part of the software and product development lifecycle. Someone who is a creative thinker and has a passion for crafting the best experiences we can offer. Someone who is obsessed with the user and getting the best experience possible in their hands. Candidates will be able to determine the best medium for each prototype based on its primary purpose. These solutions will range from highly iterative paper prototypes and click-throughs for rapid exploration to more developed fully functioning prototypes for presentation and handoff to engineering. Candidates who have backgrounds in design and art, but also have a strong technical expertise in web coding such as HTML5, CSS and Javascript, are the one’s we’re looking to fill this position. So if you fit this description, have a passion for crafting the best browser and mobile based experiences possible and are ready to help push products from early ideation all the way to growth and success, then we want you. In this role, you will also have the collective knowledge and experience of the prototyping team at your disposal.

Minimum Required Skills:

Proficient in various prototyping tools (InVision, paper, Proto.io, etc…) Expert competency in HTML, CSS and semantic markup Strong JavaScript ability and knowledge of ES6 Strong in cross-browser and mobile JS and CSS complexities and troubleshooting Strong knowledge of accessibility requirements and methods for implementation Understanding of the fundamentals of software development, including best practices and OOD design patterns Knowledge of ePub 3 development Experience with Twitter Bootstrap or other UI frameworks Experience with CSS pre-compiler, like LESS or SASS Excellent visual, verbal and written communication skills Ability to manage time effectively to meet multiple, tight deadlines Ability to interpret the core purpose of a design and translate to user interface Self-directed and collaborative team player Able to work remotely and in a largely self-directed environment Additional skills: AJAX development experience Knowledge of and experience with available JavaScript libraries, such as Angular.js, React.js, or others Experience with Web Components Mobile application development (Objective C, Java, Swift) Experience with server-side development a plus (nodeJS, Redis, SQL, MongoDB or other)

Additional Job Details:

High level responsibilities: Collaborate in design ideation and exploration Provide the design team with a technical perspective Assist researchers and accessibility specialists in facilitating research sessions with end users Build context specific prototypes determining appropriate technologies and deliverables for the unique needs of each project and it’s handoff requirements Encourage and facilitate rapid ideation and growth of designs and concepts via prototyping Deliver engaging prototypes using the latest front-end technologies available Help create and maintain a UI component library with CSS, HTML and JavaScript

Consider Remote Worker?:

Yes

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $35.00 to $40.00 /year

Experience:

• UI: 3 years (Required)
• UX: 2 years (Preferred)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Work Location:

• Multiple locations

MOST IMPORTANT PART ABOUT THE GIG: We believe in making yourself rich not just your company rich. That's why for this position you and your team (3-6 people) will be given 33.3% of all distributed profits in addition to an employee stock option program. There is no salary or hourly rate for this position. You can work remotely and part time when you have the time.

Responsibilities:

• The primary responsibility for this position is as an individual contributor software engineer, writing code and authoring architectural design documents.
• You should have demonstrated abilities to complete full projects of a scope/complexity larger than a single individual end-to-end feature. This is inclusive of breaking down the project and working across multiple folks and potentially multiple disciplines.

In a senior engineering capacity, you will also have the following responsibilities:

• Identifying and resolving systemic issues across the product
• Participating in interviewing and act as a key influencer for hiring decisions
• Help with mentoring and career development of more junior engineers

Desired Qualifications:

We are looking for engineers that are:

• Passionate about building player facing features
• Love working on highly polished user interfaces and client experiences

Additionally, you have proven experience with the following primary technologies:

• Modern Android development
• Java
• Kotlin
• Having familiarity with C++ and server side Java development is also valuable
• Experience with UX/UI design a strong plus

Job Type: Contract

Experience:

• software engineer: 2 years (Preferred)

Graphic Designer

ABOUT THIS JOB:

Octavia Digital Media is a startup Web Development company based in Tucson, Arizona. We develop websites and web applications for big and small companies. This includes websites, web apps, and other online services as needed. Octavia Digital Media is currently looking for 1-2 Graphic Designers to join our team. This is a contracted position. As a contracted worker, pay is inconsistent and dependent upon project completion. In this position you must have a strong understanding of Visual Design, Interaction Design, UX Design, and Graphic Design Processes. This is a combination of remote work and in office work.

Duties:

• Identify and translate user needs into simple, elegant designs
• Create User Personas, User Journeys, and conduct other UX research
• Create wireframes, mockups
• Illustrates concepts by designing rough layouts of art with regards for arrangement, size, type size and style, and aesthetics
• Design user interfaces
• Conduct user research and testing
• Developing task flows based on user and client needs
• Collaborating with Developers and Content Writers to create intuitive, user-friendly software that represents the client’s message/purpose
• Effective lines of communication with clients

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• Knowledge of Mockflow or other prototyping tools
• Excellent communication and customer service skills
• A strong eye for detail
• Ability to work in a team
• Knowledge of design and usability fundamentals
• Experience in user interaction design for websites
• Good verbal and presentation skills
• Graphic Design Skills and Layout Skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year of professional Graphic Design experience or equivalent
• Experience with Front-end development
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS

ABOUT OCTAVIA DIGITAL MEDIA

Octavia provides web development, web application and other technological services as needed for big and small companies.

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $16.00 to $22.00 /hour

Experience:

• Graphic Design: 1 year (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Contract Length:

• More than 1 year

Full Time Opportunity:

• No