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Posted 2 months ago
Requirements and responsibilities
This is a flexible, recurring freelance engagement. Hours will gradually increase over time. There's no fixed schedule, but some availability overlapping MST timezone is preferred as we're working with a Canadian client.
Key Responsibilities:
Information Architecture & UX Strategy:
- Define the end-to-end information architecture across all platform surfaces, ensuring intuitive navigation between the Front Page, Feed, Sectors, Symbols, Creator Studio, and Dashboard.
- Map user journeys for distinct personas: retail investors (readers), content creators (contributors), and high-RS moderators/governors.
- Design the progressive disclosure of the RS system, making credibility mechanics transparent and understandable without overwhelming new users.
- Structure content hierarchy for data-dense pages: symbol intelligence with real-time charting, multi-format feeds with RS scoring, and moderation audit interfaces.
UI Design & Design System:
- Create and maintain a comprehensive design system that supports the platform’s brand identity (dark-themed, financial-grade, credibility-forward aesthetic).
- Design high-fidelity screens and interactive prototypes for all core surfaces, from mobile-responsive feeds to desktop-first charting and analytics views.
- Develop component libraries for recurring patterns: content cards (micro-posts, signal reports, editorial), RS indicators, visibility tier badges, engagement widgets, and ranking transparency modules.
- Design data visualisations for the Resonance Score engine: RS progression charts, decay curves, diversity multiplier indicators, and epoch-level reward breakdowns.
User Research & Validation:
- Conduct user research with retail investors, crypto traders, and financial content creators to validate design decisions and uncover usability gaps.
- Run usability testing on key flows: onboarding and identity verification, first-post creation, feed exploration, symbol search, and RS progression.
- Translate research insights into actionable design improvements, working closely with the product and engineering teams.
Trust & Credibility UX:
- Design the visual language for the platform’s trust infrastructure: how RS scores, visibility tiers, audition bucket progression, and moderation states are communicated to users.
- Create interfaces for the deterministic ranking system, showing users how RS weighting, exploration slots, and format-neutral scoring shape content visibility.
- Design safety and moderation UI: suppression states, boost kill-switch indicators, fraud flags, AI classification outputs, and community-led audit workflows.
- Ensure the economic layer (points, tipping, rewards, future token activation) is presented clearly and builds user confidence in the platform’s fairness.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Collaborate daily with frontend engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation and smooth handoff using structured design specs.
- Work with backend engineers to understand the Trust, Value, and Allocation domain boundaries and how they constrain and inform the user experience.
- Partner with the founding team on product strategy and feature prioritisation, contributing a user-centred perspective to roadmap decisions.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required:
- 5+ years of professional UI/UX design experience shipping production web and mobile products.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating complex, data-intensive interface design (dashboards, analytics, feeds, financial tools, or marketplace platforms).
- Deep proficiency in Figma (or equivalent) with experience building and maintaining scalable design systems and component libraries.
- Demonstrated ability to design for complex information architectures with multiple user types, content formats, and navigation patterns.
- Experience with user research methods: usability testing, user interviews, journey mapping, and translating findings into design iterations.
- Strong visual design skills with attention to typography, spacing, hierarchy, and accessibility in data-dense layouts.
- Experience collaborating closely with frontend engineers to deliver production-quality implementations from design specs.
Preferred:
- Experience designing fintech, financial media, trading, or investment platforms.
- Familiarity with reputation systems, credibility scoring, gamification mechanics, or trust & safety interfaces.
- Experience designing for social or community-driven platforms (feeds, profiles, content creation tools, moderation workflows).
- Knowledge of real-time data visualisation patterns, charting libraries, and financial data presentation best practices.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and how backend system design constrains frontend UX.
- Interest in or experience with crypto/Web3 ecosystems, token economies, or decentralised governance.
Optionally, you can add more information later (benefits, pre-screening questions, etc.)