Studio: Zynga Games
Job Opening: UI Designer – Star Wars
Location: Brighton, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Develop player facing interfaces from concept through to completion.
- Iterate interface in line with the game art direction.
- Provide feedback on in-development layouts and visuals
- Animate graphics to enhance the player experience.
- Problem solve visual language requirements in line with game style.
- Understand UX issues and work to resolve friction points in the game flow in collaboration with the UX team
- Work alongside engineers integrate interface elements directly within the game engine to a detailed specification.
- Create detail handover specs and documentation to engineering team
- Work within platform constraints and optimise performance of the UI systems.
Qualifications & Skills:
- A portfolio showcasing a solid understanding of layout, typography, colour and composition.
- Core logo and iconography skills and understanding of design fundamentals.
- Experience in implementing UI into Unreal Engine.
- Experience in Photoshop, creating UI screens all the way to finished mock-ups.
- Experience in Illustrator vector creation to create game-ready iconography.
- Experience in creating animated prototypes of intended visual effects and UI transitional effects/wipes/etc in After Effects or like software.
- Ability to create Animations within Unreal Engine
- Basic knowledge and understanding of UX design practices & principles
- Understanding of cross-platform considerations for UI/UX
