Senior Mobile UI/UX Designer (Mobile Games) - Figma, Photoshop Claude

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Summary

Balloon Labs is seeking an experienced UI/UX Designer with a strong mobile games background to help build and improve our growing portfolio of titles. You should be embracing AI tools into your work flow. ### Responsibilities * Design engaging mobile game interfaces and experiences * Create wireframes, flows, mockups, and prototypes * Improve onboarding, retention, progression, and monetization * Design menus, HUDs, stores, rewards, events, and game systems * Collaborate closely with designers, artists, developers, and management * Identify UX issues and recommend improvements * Maintain design systems across multiple games * Use player data to inform design decisions * Deliver production-ready assets ### Essential Requirements * 5+ years of UI/UX experience * Significant mobile games experience * Portfolio demonstrating shipped games * Strong understanding of retention, engagement, and free-to-play design * Experience designing for iOS and Android * Expert-level Figma skills * Excellent visual design and usability fundamentals * Strong English communication skills * Self-motivated and able to work independently * Access to an Android device * Experience in a mobile games company in the past. ### Highly Desirable * Experience implementing UI in Unity * Knowledge of Unity UI Toolkit and UGUI * Experience creating UI animations and micro-interactions * Understanding of game economies and monetization * Experience with casual, hybrid-casual, hidden object, puzzle, or coloring games * Familiarity with analytics and A/B testing * Active use of AI tools to accelerate ideation, design, prototyping, and production workflows ### Working Requirements * Full-time, long-term position * Available Monday to Friday * Must be available between 9:00am and 6:00pm CET

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Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Mobile App Design
Game UI/UX Design
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:20 to 50
  • Last viewed by client:3 weeks ago
  • Hires:
    2
  • Interviewing:
    13
  • Invites sent:
    30
  • Unanswered invites:
    9
About the client
Member since Apr 29, 2022
  • United States
    Wilmington7:37 AM
  • $217K total spent
    159 hires, 62 active
  • 15,971 hours

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