UX Designer

We are looking for a UX Designer to join our team and play a pivotal role in developing a user-centered experience for an exciting new 4X strategy mobile game set in a highly popular anime universe. This project blends base-building, hero collection, and strategic gameplay, aiming to provide an engaging yet casual experience for a global audience of anime fans.

As a UX Designer, you will be responsible for crafting intuitive and accessible user flows, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable experience for players. You’ll work closely with the game design team to align the user interface and experience with the overall creative vision, focusing on delivering a high-quality and user-friendly product.

Key Responsibilities:

• UX Design Process: Apply user-centered design principles and processes, including conducting research, creating wireframes, flowcharts, and prototypes, to design the interaction and information architecture for the game.
• Collaborate with Game Design Team: Work closely with the game designers to ensure that the UX aligns with the game's core mechanics and player flow, improving the overall player experience.
• User Research & Testing: Plan and conduct user research, including both qualitative and quantitative testing, to gather feedback and insights. Use this data to iterate and refine designs, ensuring the interface is intuitive and aligned with player expectations.
• Accessibility & Inclusivity: Advocate for accessibility and inclusivity across all aspects of the UX design process, ensuring that the game is enjoyable for players of varying abilities.
• Prototyping & Implementation: Create wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes, collaborating with developers to ensure smooth implementation and testing of new features and designs.
• Iterative Design: Embrace an iterative approach, regularly testing and refining UX features based on player feedback and internal team discussions, ensuring an optimal user experience.

Requirements:

• Experience in UX Design: At least 3 years of experience as a UX Designer, ideally within the gaming industry, working on mobile or strategy-based titles.
• Proficiency with UX Tools: Strong proficiency with UX design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, or similar for wireframes, flowcharts, and prototypes.
• Unity Experience: Ability to work with Unity to tweak UI/UX elements (e.g., rectransforms, buttons, layout groups) and collaborate with developers to ensure seamless integration of UX designs.
• Strong Understanding of Human Factors: Solid knowledge of usability principles, accessibility guidelines, and user psychology to ensure the design meets a wide range of player needs.
• Collaboration & Communication: Strong collaboration skills to work cross-functionally with game designers, developers, and artists. You should be comfortable advocating for UX best practices within a creative environment.
• Anime & Manga Culture: A passion or familiarity with anime and manga culture is a plus, as this will help ensure the UX resonates with the fanbase and complements the anime IP.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with 4X strategy or mobile game design.
• Knowledge of blockchain or decentralized networks (not required, but a plus due to the optional blockchain features in the game).