UI/UX designer with front-end skills

We are looking for a skilled freelance UI/UX designer with front-end skills.

The ideal candidate can show a mix of designs for desktop apps, mobile apps as well as examples of front-end implementations with a focus on app user interfaces.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in digital design and development, interactive multimedia design (e.g. Devine, IMD), or equivalency in years of working experience
• At least 4 years of working experience
• Fluency in Dutch (native or professional level)
• You live in Belgium

Responsibilities

• UI Design: work on user interface designs in modern design apps. We mainly use Figma but are always looking to improve our workflows. You will be working on app screen designs, design systems, website designs, assets like icons and more.
• Front-end: use your front-end skills, with a designer eye, to carry out specific front-end tasks related to implementing your designs in the browser.
• UX research: work on research tasks such as user interviews, usability testing, desk research, and stakeholder interviews

Qualities

• Excellence: We are looking for a designer who can combine aesthetics in user interface design with a strong sense of usability
• Strong ability to learn: You are naturally curious and you constantly teach yourself new skills as the world around us changes
• Speed: you know how to design and iterate fast. While you will get plenty of time to iterate on your designs and reach a high quality level, we are looking for someone who knows they are a fast worker and can iterate with the speed that high-end UI design work requires.
• Excellent communicator, both orally and written, in English and Dutch

Extra

• Experience in an agency context
• Proven skills with multiple front-end frameworks
• Proven experimentation with AI coding
• Spanish and/or French language skills

Contract & duration

This is a contract role for one year. Possibility for part-time 60% work.

Do not apply if you are not a freelancer with a registered VAT number.

About Obra Studio

We’re a new design studio, aiming to become a reference in UI and digital product design. Currently led by Johan from Mexico City, we are actively looking to grow quickly in 2025.

Location

This is a remote position for 100% of the time except for select team events and meeting the team together in a co-working space (Limited to a few times per year).