Position: UI Designer
Company: ColorElephant
Category: Design
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper

## A Bit About Us
We're a startup studio building a series of small (and not-so-small) SaaS products. They range from consumer-facing mobile apps to analytics tools. There's a ton of challenges.
One of the things we pride ourselves on is UX and ... UI.

## What are we looking for
At the moment we're looking for someone to help us go from semi-fidelity (Whimsical produced) wireframes to beautiful, tasteful interfaces. This does not mean you can't give input on the UX side of things — this is both welcomed and incentivised. But that (UX) is covered for now and we need someone that is able to take these concepts, deep-dive and understand them and then deliver UI that wows us.

"Here comes another client that doesn't want what they want"
We do. We've been building and running digital products for 8+ years. Finding a designer is extremely difficult. Because literally everyone and their uncle is a designer. However finding someone that gets the basics (and design does come back to the basics) and that matches our style/taste is... hard. Sometimes you match the style but just don't get the basics, sometimes you just have no creativity (if I wanted a bootstrap theme I'd get a bootstrap theme).

## So what makes a good UI designer for us?
1. Someone that gets the basics. Regardless of your personal style preference there's basics. Spacing, color combinations, fonts, backgrounds, highlights and contrasts are 90% of it. If you do these right, you're already half-way there.

2. Someone that has a similar taste to ours. This is the tricky part. We need to work with someone where we are +- aligned style-wise or we'll take forever to get there. We'll provide an extensive list of what we like :-) 

3. Someone that can follow best practices but not design everything like it is yet-another-bootstrap theme. Creativity. Ability to add small details, small touches that make a UI come alive.

4. Someone curious. You want to learn more, explore styles, explore tools, explore prototyping etc.

## What would be ideal?

a. Knowledge of prototyping tools (like, you've used in real life, not heard it's name :D ) like Proto.io, Framer, Origami or JustInMind
b. Near-immediate availability

## What will we work on?

You'll work on a specific project with us (a new twist on analytics for the consumer-age) and if all goes well we take it from there.

## How do you apply

Forget the cover letter. I mean, it's cool, but please answer the following questions:
1. Please share links to your two best pieces of work. Note we just asked for two. Also note we're looking for UI — so if you did a tremendous UX case study that's cool but not for right now.
2. Name 3 apps/sites you love the design of.
3. What kind of project would get you interested, fired up and super excited in the morning?