Studio: Gamefam
Job Opening: UI Artist 3
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Design and champion the UI and UX for the project. You will be the UI/UX expert within the team to convey the game’s spirit and playability.
- Own and communicate the high-level vision and creative goals for UI/UX
- Create concepts, mockups, and pitches for in-game User Interfaces, including features, flow, layout, design and iconography
- Design awesome game interfaces that complement and develop each game’s style, with a focus on new events and updates.
- Execution of all aspects of in-game User Interface from layout mockups, wireframes, style-guides, and motion graphics
- Collaborate closely with producers, art directors, and programmers to ensure a consistent, high quality user experience
- Consistently play through game content and alert other departments about areas where player comprehension may be lacking.
- Play and analyze many games, and understand a wide variety of approaches to UI and UX.
- Author and implement final UI assets that conform to the established art style and design vision.
- Work directly with software engineers to ensure UI assets are created in a consistent and thoughtful manner to fit memory and rendering performance constraints
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of one shipped video game title
- Able to tackle complex projects without guidance.
- Well-versed in common UX practices in video games and a strong background in user-first thinking
- BA/BS degree or equivalent professional experience in graphic design or related field.
- Strong knowledge and demonstrative skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash/After Effects, and other UI authoring software
- Working knowledge of game engines, specifically Roblox and UEFN
- Awareness of current digital graphic design trends
- Strong grasp of art principles and game development pipelines and practices
- Portfolio demonstrating a breadth of visual creativity in both interface and graphic design
- Effective communication skills
Pluses:
- Able to demonstrate their experience in creating UI for a Roblox title that has proven effective or UI created to a professional standard for a game on another platform.
- Well-versed in common UX practices in video games and a strong background in user-first thinking
- Being a gamer is a massive plus
- 3D and/or VFX experience
- 3+ years of UI art/design experience
- Experience in XAML, HTML5
