Novelty Lab
- Industry Other
- Category Engineering
- Location Nepal
- Expiry date Aug 01, 2026 (7 days left)
Job Description
About The RoleDesign at Novelty Lab is not a service function that receives briefs and returns mockups. You are embedded with engineering and product from the first conversation about a customer problem through the shipped pixel. Our customers are enterprise teams deploying agentic systems into workflows that touch real money and regulated data — the UI has to earn their trust on first load.
The work spans research, interaction design, visual design, and the systems thinking that keeps a growing product coherent. You might run a usability session on an approval queue flow one week and define the component patterns for a new audit log surface the next. We ship fast, which means your designs need to be practical — detailed enough to build from, flexible enough to evolve.
We take inspiration from products like Linear and Vercel: dense information presented clearly, motion used sparingly and purposefully, and a visual language that feels precise rather than decorative. If you care about the invisible details — spacing, hierarchy, micro-interactions, empty states — you will fit in here.
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end design process for features: discovery, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and design QA through launch.
- Build and maintain the design system — components, tokens, patterns, and documentation — so engineering can ship consistent UI without waiting on every screen.
- Conduct user research and usability testing with customers and internal stakeholders to validate flows before and after they ship.
- Partner closely with engineers on implementation: review PRs for visual fidelity, write specs that reduce ambiguity, and iterate based on technical constraints.
- Design for enterprise requirements: complex data tables, role-based views, audit trails, approval workflows, and accessibility that meets WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Create marketing and product visuals when needed — landing pages, case study layouts, and social assets that match the product's design language.
- 4+ years of product design experience with a portfolio that shows shipped work — not just concept explorations.
- Strong visual and interaction design skills: you can design a dashboard, a settings page, and an onboarding flow with equal confidence.
- Proficiency in Figma (or equivalent) including auto-layout, components, variants, and design system maintenance.
- Experience designing for technical or B2B products where users need to complete complex tasks efficiently, not just browse.
- Understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices — you design for keyboard, screen readers, and contrast from the start.
- Clear written communication: you can write design rationale, annotate specs, and give feedback that engineers find actionable.
- Experience designing for AI or agentic products — confidence indicators, streaming states, approval gates, and the UX patterns that make automated behavior feel trustworthy.
- Basic front-end literacy — enough HTML/CSS/React to prototype in code or review implementation details in PRs.
- Motion design skills for purposeful transitions and loading states that reduce perceived latency.
- 01
We talk about your background, what kinds of products you've designed, and what you're looking for in your next role.
- 02
Walk us through 2–3 projects you're proud of. We will ask about your process, the constraints you worked within, and what you would do differently today.
- 03
A take-home scoped to a real problem from our product, followed by a review session where you present your thinking.
- 04
Meet engineers and product folks you would work with daily. This is as much for you to evaluate us as the reverse.
