UI Designer

Your Impact:

As a UI Designer at DISCO, you will craft innovative digital solutions that aid the practice of law. You will be responsible for ensuring these solutions are accessible, intuitive, and consistent within the DISCO product portfolio. Additionally, you will ensure your designs resonate and enhance the overall user experience for legal professionals through iterative refinement driven by customer feedback and usability testing. Through close collaboration with cross-functional team members, you will be responsible for ensuring your designs are built to the proper specifications.

What You'll Do:

• Prototype and design ideas at various levels of fidelity and iteratively test them with representative users and domain experts.

• Provide elegant solutions to complex design problems and usability issues while putting the user first in everything you do.
• Communicate your designs and their underlying rationale through artifacts including prototypes, site maps, journey maps, and usability test reports.
• Assist in research and research synthesis to understand user needs and use cases.
• Collaborate with other designers and engineers to implement, maintain, and improve DISCO’s design system.
• Work with engineers throughout the development process to help identify bugs and ensure that designs are built to agreed-upon specifications.

Things you might work on:

• Synthesizing and simplifying complex workflows, often involving hundreds of lawyers collaborating on millions of documents.
• Creating new user flows, processes, and interfaces that improve the lawyer and client experience in our products.

Some of your strengths might include:

• Strong proficiency designing in Figma
• Familiarity with design thinking methodologies such as Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)
• Ability to find simple solutions for complex problems
• Ability to smoothly transition from concepts and ideation to detailed execution while maintaining top-notch craftsmanship across deliverables
• Staying on top of the latest industry trends, technologies, and design patterns
• A self-starter that takes a proactive approach and can work independently and collaboratively
• A feel for when to leverage established best practices vs customizing or inventing new approaches
• Takes a structured, pragmatic, and holistic approach to problem-solving
• A design superpower - illustration, animation, typography, statistical analysis, etc.
• Solid verbal, visual, and written communication skills

Background

• Education (formal or otherwise) in design, human-computer interaction, human factors/ergonomics, or experimental or cognitive psychology
• 3+ years experience in product design
• Experience designing for enterprise-level B2B or B2C applications that support users performing complex, technical tasks is a plus
• Experience working with global teams in different time zones is a plus

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
• Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
• Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company