Mobile Application Designer - iOS and/or Android

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Bright Mind Enrichment is a community wellness 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to helping individuals thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Our newest project is Vaccination Rewards, a unique tool to help people during the pandemic. We also recently launched a community wellness initiative, Street Care, focused on helping vulnerable populations through our deployable online and on-the-streets outreach program approach. For Street Care, we have developed an app road-mapped to provide volunteers with background context, how-to videos, and interactive functionality -- to enable anyone to feel prepared to go out and help homeless people safely and effectively. we have extensive organizational materials that we have developed and tech projects (e.g., at streetcare.us); BME standard systems; and more. Our team members have longstanding relationships throughout the non-profit community and across sectors; deep experience in non-profit and tech work; and broad multi-platform experience. We will provide all necessary support --and teamwork! -- to see this work through together. Thank you!

Job Description

Bright Mind Enrichment (BME) seeks technical app support. If you have expertise, are a self-starter, or are just starting out, we welcome you to apply (we can fit our work to fit different people who have the volunteer spirit!). We have expanded into new areas in our work with the most vulnerable populations (notably via our streetcare.us initiative, and a new micro-school project), and we are taking on new volunteers.

We are looking for someone who will be to design the next generation of mobile websites, apps and other mobile interfaces across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, and mobile web. We expect you to have an evolved understanding of how people use their devices, the flexibility to adapt to new technologies, and a robust toolkit.

Responsibilities and Skills

• Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile.
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership.
• Participate in the development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance.
• Stay abreast of UX trends and look for creative ideas and inspiration.
• Research and track advancements in mobile application design patterns.
• Break any design problem down into viable actionable chunks and solve them with clarity and precision.
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in the mobile design field.
• Familiarity with graphic design skills, with a good understanding of typography, intuitive layouts and palate development.
• Ability to recognize and predict use-cases and user interaction, including happy path, edge and corner cases, and incorporate them into designs.
• Good understanding of user-experience design for mobile and the web, technology trends, demonstrable design skills, and ability to show relevant work.
• Deep understanding of Apple’s human interface design guidelines, Android design and other mobile platform designs, including Google’s material design.