UX UI Designer

Job Title: UX & UI Designer (gaming/XR /3D enthusiast) 

Reporting to: Product Lead 

Location: Remote with some travel to London Office

The healthcare industry is facing a crisis: there simply aren’t enough skilled professionals to meet the growing demand. At FuturU, we believe that by making healthcare education free and accessible to all, we can help solve this problem and raise the standard of care everywhere.

That’s why we aim to be the world's leading learning platform for healthcare workers and a pioneer in learning technology. We’re creating a learning platform that’s modern, joined up, efficient, reliable and most of all, effective. One that’s accessible to everyone and provides exceptional learning experiences and support.

To be the healthcare sector’s learning partner for life, creating the best trained workforce by offering high quality immersive and interactive training via our mobile app and website. Learning and development that’s not only modern, rigorous, and comprehensive – but free at the point of access. 

We are looking for a legendary UX UI designer with passion for gaming and cutting edge technologies.. You will help us shape and transform the UX and UI of our 3d content creation tool  and make it an absolute joy for our customers to use in addition to working on new emerging experiments with the product lead. Someone who through data/research, good intuition and design taste will level up the user’s experience to the maximum level.

• Take our existing design prototype and make changes to the overall design system and help envision all the potential ways our product’s user experience can be improved.

• Understanding of the different types of interfaces in video games and XR content. 

• Lead end-to-end design on products for mobile and desktop and provide mockups, wireframes, low and high-fidelity designs along with interactive designs to bring ideas to life. 

• An understanding or curiosity about the methodology and cognitive principles to 3D characters behaviours and experiences within 3D space.

• Team up with the product lead to help define user requirements, prioritise them, and craft user stories.

• Conduct user research, usability testing and gather feedback to inform design iterations and improvement.

• Create great designs that focus on accessibility, while staying true to our brand guidelines.

• Build and maintain a design system that keeps our designs consistent and efficient, complete with a component library, style guide, and design patterns.

• Be ahead of the game in the latest industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in the XR space and healthcare education.

• Ideally 3+ years of experience: Experience working as a UX designer or a related field in a professional environment.

• Intuitive user interface design: experience designing great UI designs that are intuitive and meaningful to the users.

• Game design: experience in game design and software design (the majority of what we build will involve gamified elements,  we need someone who is familiar or excited to learn about common gaming mechanics and applying them).

• Interaction design: Craft user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that communicate your design ideas and let you test your assumptions.

• UX research experience: Get hands-on with user interviews, surveys, usability testing, and other research methods to learn more about users and guide our design choices.

• User-centred design approach: Tap into users' needs, desires, and behaviours to create intuitive and captivating product experiences that they'll love.

• Design system savvy: Experience in building and taking care of a design system, complete with component libraries, style guides, and design patterns.

• Data analysis chops: Flex your skills in analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data to drive design decisions and business strategies.

• Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate effectively with different teams, including product managers, engineers, stakeholders and other designers.

• Proficiency in design tools: Expertise in using design tools, ideally Figma, After Effects, InVision, Midjourney.

• Prototyping using Unity 3D is a bonus.

• Creative Cloud is a bonus but not required.

Please note we are unable to sponsor visas for this position so are only able accept applications from those who are located within either the UK, Portugal or Spain and hold a right to work in these locations.

We are a remote team so you can work at a place that suits you. We operate across different timezones so flexibility is built in. We focus on outcomes rather than presenteeism and aim for work/life harmony rather than balance. Kids, cats and dogs often show up on our Google Meet calls and we are fans of walking meetings when you don’t need to be at a screen. Of course we’ll supply you all the IT kit of your choosing. We offer a culture that’s supportive and encourages authenticity with inclusion at the heart of our decision making. 

Most importantly, we are united in the mission to provide universal access to free healthcare education and we are unapologetically bold in our aims to transform the sector. 

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