Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is offering a rare contract opportunity for a world-class website designer to contribute to a frontier research project. The role focuses on creating high-quality digital experiences and evaluating website designs while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Creating, reviewing, and evaluating high-quality website design examples and digital experiences to support a frontier research initiative
- Applying expert-level knowledge of visual design, user experience, and contemporary web standards to critically assess the quality, usability, and execution of modern websites
- Designing and contributing production-ready digital experiences across marketing sites, editorial platforms, interactive experiences, and web-based products
- Working with responsive web design principles and modern design systems to produce polished, high-calibre outputs
- Collaborating within a multidisciplinary context to deliver work that meets the standards of leading global design studios
- Contributing consistently high-quality work, with strong performance increasing selection for future project engagements
Skills
- Strong experience in website and digital experience design, with a portfolio demonstrating world-class UX/UI, marketing sites, editorial platforms, or interactive digital products
- Background designing for leading technology companies, global brands, startups, or cultural institutions at a recognised digital design studio
- Proven ability to apply responsive web design principles and contribute to modern design systems at a professional level
- Experience critically evaluating digital work against contemporary standards of visual quality, usability, and execution
- An exceptional portfolio is required; candidates without demonstrable website design work will not be considered
- Candidates with prior experience at Pentagram, AKQA, DesignStudio, Koto, ustwo, or a comparable leading UK-based digital design studio are strongly preferred
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