User Interface Designer

About Codal

Codal is a UX design and development agency with a focus on blending an Agile process with the latest technologies. Based in the heart of Chicago, we have a knack for bringing out the best in every brand that we work with. Our clientele has ranged from small business to enterprise, but our philosophy has always remained the same: to empower brand visibility and deliver the most elegant web and mobile solutions possible.

Why Work At Codal

A tight-knit group working on a global scale. A start-up culture tackling enterprise solutions. A driven team that channels their creativity and passion into every project, then brings the same heat to the office’s ping-pong tournament or softball game. Codal is an anomaly of the industry—we do things a little differently around here.

A long story short? You won’t find a company like Codal anywhere else.  

Duties & Responsibilities

Codal’s UX team is searching for a supremely creative User Interface Designer for our Chicago office. As a designer with a strong background in crafting interfaces for consumer-facing brands, our ideal candidate should be able to design around that brand and generate a creative vision direction for its digital campaigns.

As a brand steward, your duty will be to ensure the logos, icons, illustrations, and other graphics you create aligns with the style, aesthetic, and mission of our clientele.  

You must possess a mastery of design principles such as typography, illustration, imagery, content, and composition, and excel in wielding them in a web design application.

We’re a digital company— extensive experience designing for the web, mobile, or any other software applications is a must. This should be reflected in your portfolio. 

Other responsibilities include regularly communicating with clients to ensure their expectations are exceeded. Codal’s designers are ones who cannot contain their passion for crafting digital experiences and will do everything it takes to ensure their projects are pixel-perfect.

Job Role
    

• Produce a variety of visual design projects that consistently represent the brand in all digital channels.  This includes but is not limited to: all forms of digital media, online advertising, social media, web, mobile, electronic communications, e-store, and digital screens.
• Interface with clients to provide up-to-date product imagery, logos, and other files for production
• Translate a brand’s mission or project requirements into artistic design solutions
• Produce all required design deliverables, create design elements and variations for brands
• Create original design, typography, iconography, and art for digital screens
• Create and annotate UI style kits and design guidelines, both from scratch and from existing brand conventions

Requirements

• While a four-year, design-related college degree is great, Codal will consider any applicants who feel they are truly experienced, skilled UI designers — diploma or not  
• 2-4 years of experience designing web-based interfaces 
• Experience in icon and logo design for the web 
• You must submit a portfolio showcasing your work in web design

• You have unparalleled artistic ability, channeling your talent into bringing a client’s vision to life
• You have strong creative intuition, and an infectious passion for design
• You thrive both independently and in a collaborative environment
• You possess strong interpersonal skills for client communication
• You have the ability to flourish when receiving constructive criticism, and recognize when to provide some of your own
• You can accurately communicate your design decisions, requirements, and ideas both verbally and through documentation package.
• You are an organization ninja, taking a group of requirements, strategies, and ideas and organizing them into a cohesive, usable structure.
• You go beyond UI and design, showing a passion for learning and understanding user experience concepts, scripting languages, and technologies relevant to the industry

To be considered for this position, please submit a portfolio that best demonstrates your expertise as a user interface designer.