Freelance Ecommerce UX / UI Designer

Swanky is a leading Shopify Premier Partner agency with a portfolio of internationally recognisable brands, crafting websites that are both beautiful and high-performing; matching excellent design with fantastic conversion rates.

We are looking to form a select pool of creative, intelligent and commercially minded Freelance UX/UI Designers to occasionally assist our team of entrepreneurial, ambitious & highly skilled e-commerce experts in delivering beautiful and compelling websites on Shopify Plus. You’ll need to be able to craft fantastic user experience across all aspects of a brand’s online presence, always looking to improve on what’s gone before.

We are interested in hearing from designers with a broad range of experience, but with a clear indication of excellent design ideation & delivery in their portfolio, as well as a warm, clear client-facing manner and ability to build rapport. 

What we’re looking for:

• At least 2 to 3 years’ experience working in digital design.
• A strong portfolio of design work, relevant to e-commerce front-end.
  
• A keen eye for typography, layout, colour theory and a passion for producing beautiful designs.
• An awareness of e-commerce UX design and how to convert a visitor into a returning customer.
• Proficiency in using Figma.
• Excellent problem solving skills with an open, flexible and adaptable mindset. 
• Ambitious, industrious, can-do attitude with strong interpersonal skills, able to work well within a team. 
• An ability to communicate well with clients at a high level, helping them to understand your designs and building rapport. 
• A keen interest in e-commerce, social media and digital marketing platforms & tools.
• Knowledge in designing responsive, mobile first websites.
  
  

Desirable

• Hands on experience of manipulating Shopify themes.
• More advanced understanding of Figma setups: variables, design tokens, responsive layouts and animation techniques.
• Experience with animation platforms such as Lottie & Adobe After Effects.
• End-to-end e-commerce project design delivery, from discovery, to wire-framing, high-fidelity designs and visual QA after development.
• Relevant experience in an agency or in-house and/or a degree in digital media or design (or similar).
  
  

What you'll be doing:

• Creating user personas, user journeys and site maps, using wireframes and prototypes to develop user experiences across multiple platforms and devices.
• Designing high-fidelity e-commerce sites for a wide range of brands, from funded startups to established domestic and international brands across fashion, tech and FMCG.
• Strategically devising and designing ways to improve user experience, revenue and brand interaction for our clients.
• Meeting with clients alongside project managers and developers to gather requirements and attending regular meetings throughout the course of a project, presenting concepts and working collaboratively with our team and the client towards objectives. 
• Communicating with project teams in order to deliver world-class e-commerce stores.
• Sharing and implementing ideas with the rest of our industrious designers, developers and strategists.