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UI/UX & Interaction Designer (Remote/Europe)

Collabora Online — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:56:36 +0000

Organization: Collabora Online

Status: searching

Compensation: paid

Role: UX, UI, interaction design

Collabora Productivity build Collabora Online - an open source, in-browser, interoperable, feature-rich, enterprise document collaboration suite.

We’re looking for a UI/UX Designer to collaborate with our management team as well as our engineers to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals, and user experience. You will be part of a two person design team within engineering and design new features and improvements to our software, with focus on user-system interaction. You ideally have an interest in open source as well as understanding of software-enterprise business and are good at solving problems creatively, effectively and independently.

Responsibilities:

Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design requirements, while keeping functionality
Execute all visual design stages from user research, through ideation and hand-off to engineering
Closely communicate, collaborate and work iteratively with relevant engineers
Create wireframes and mockups with specifications to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
Establish and promote design guidelines, train engineers in best practices, and standards
Manage delivery timelines, resources, and risk assessments
Help to fill holes in icon surface from metaphor to consistent icon.

Requirements:

Degree in design, interaction design, or a related field is preferred – or equivalent experience.
UI/UX design experience with a strong portfolio and excellent visual design skills
Analytical skills and ability to work in a complex environment
Can-do attitude and solution focus as well as commitment and strong work ethic
Excellent communication skills in English, additional languages beneficial
Substantial European Timezone overlap

Desirable but not required skills:

CSS experience, some JavaScript knowledge
git revision control experience
Linux command-line & desktop experience
Office Productivity software experience
Project management experience with small teams of engineers
Account management experience
Willingness to travel to conferences & give product & design presentations …

What we offer:

A fun and growing team with a passion for open source
A legacy rich product with deep opportunities for improvement that is used by millions
A competitive salary
Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
Remote first, 100% work from home (modulo annual conferences & business travel)

We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive, who would like to grow and learn. Send in your CV as above, if you are interested in this role, and thank-you for reading this far!

How to Apply:

ben.toynton@collabora.com
https://jobs.lever.co/collabora/9829e319-e3b1-431e-b360-af9c8d10adb5

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UI/UX Designer

Nextcloud — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:52:43 +0000

Organization: Nextcloud

Status: closed

Compensation: paid

Role: UI/UX & interaction design

Nextcloud is an open source platform for collaboration and productivity, including things like voice & video chat, file sync & share, calendar, contacts, mail and an app ecosystem to do much more.

We’re looking for a UI/UX Designer to collaborate with our management team as well as our engineers to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals, and user experience. You will be part of the design team within engineering and design new features and improvements to our software, with focus on user-system interaction. You ideally have an interest in open source as well as understanding of software-enterprise business and are good at solving problems creatively, effectively and independently.

Responsibilities:

Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design requirements
Execute all visual design stages from market research, through ideation and hand-off to engineering
Closely communicate and collaborate with relevant engineers
Create wireframes and mockups with specifications to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards
Manage delivery timelines, resources, and risk assessments

Requirements:

Degree in design, interaction design, or a related field is preferred.
UI/UX design experience with a strong portfolio and excellent visual design skills
Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma or Penpot
Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
Analytical skills and ability to work in a complex environment
Can-do attitude and solution focus as well as committent and strong work ethic
Excellent communication skills in English, additional languages beneficial

What we offer:

A colourful team with a passion for open source
A product that pushes the boundaries of technology
A competitive salary
Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
Remote first strategy – but you are welcome in our offices in Stuttgart or Berlin, if you like!

We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive, who would like to grow and learn. Send your CV to jobs@nextcloud.com, if you are interested in this role. We especially encourage applications by people from underrepresented groups in tech.

How to Apply:

Nextcloud job application email address
- The full jobs page with additional context https://nextcloud.com/jobs/ - Our design contribution page https://nextcloud.com/design/

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UI/UX DESIGNER VOLUNTEER

ZAKKI — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:01:05 +0000

Organization: ZAKKI

Status: expired

Compensation: gratis

Role: UI/UX DESIGNER

UI/UX DESIGNER

Volunteer Recruitment - Remote Volunteer

ZAKKI is a social startup focusing on creating an inclusive community for the elderly and people with disabilities. Our mission is to facilitate alms and donations collection and deployment to help elderly people who still working in the informal sector to get better livelihood through micro-business management helps and giving them the exposure of greater market.

Currently, ZAKKI is developing a ramification project; reporting platforms of sexual misconduct (sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape), human trafficking, and bullying, SaveMe. And we also have an on-going anti-corruption and a lost-found project named Naon. MAHA EduGame of anti-discrimination and anti-violence for toddlers to pre-teens. We also have a funeral service project named Agni. The volunteer networking and community learning hub, named Rekan. The Kimar (ZAKKI on the spot marketplace) intended to cater to the beneficiaries (the elderly and people with disability) micro-business market exposure. And last but not least, ZAKKI - #ForYou - crowd sharing giveaways stuff (goods, pet, food donation) to other people for free.

 This candidate will build a clean and effective user experience platform. By working cross-functional, this candidate will understand needs from the product management, engineering, and business stakeholders and will build solutions that fit those needs.

For UX/UI volunteers, the task will be to design both PWA Responsive Website and mobile apps, which will then serve as the basis for software developer volunteers working on the project.

Requirement :

Fond to design, familiar with Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop
Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Figma)
Abundance with idea and initiative working as a team
Active, helpful, and collaborative person (not passive person)
Good time-management skills
Communicative (good communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders)
High proficiency in English both verbal and writing
Familiar with Google Workspace (Google Suite; Google Docs, Google Sheet, Google Forms, Google Meet).
Preferred basic knowledge on Front End Developer (e.g. HTML, CSS) and or have basic knowledge on Games Development Platform (Ionic, PyGame, Unity, C++, Java)

Interested applicant shall submit Google Form below. https://forms.gle/p2pkFdK3ejHZkgE17

Please submit the Google Form with your CV/resume and portfolio URL link (either in Dribble, Behance, Figma, and or another sharing platform).

After the submission, you are still able to edit your submitted response in case you need to update your supporting documents (i.e CV/Resume)

For any further queries related to the volunteering vacancy, feel free to reach us out at hr@zakki.org.

How to Apply:

hr@zakki.org
We are from www.zakki.org, we are recruiting UIUX Designer volunteers. Kindly check out our recruitment post on blog.zakki.org or When you have difficulties accessing those URLs link, kindly access this link: https://linktr.ee/zakkifoundation. Then, please click the desirable role accordingly.

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Help with toolbar icons & interaction design

Avogadro — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:41:09 +0000

Organization: Avogadro

Status: expired

Compensation: paid

Role: Icons, Interaction Design

Avogadro is a leading 3D molecular design and visualization tool, downloaded over 1 million times. As coders and scientists, we need help with icon design and UI / UX as we finish Avogadro 2.0

Our biggest need is for toolbar icons. Beyond the standard “New,” “Open,” “Save,” “Export,” etc. we’re a 3D modeling tool and chemistry set. We need to clearly illustrate in 32x32 or 64x64 icons:

Navigate (translate, rotate, spin)
Draw (freeform molecular sketch)
Template (insert molecule fragments)
Select (e.g., rubber band rectangle)
Manipulate (e.g., pull and push atoms and selections around)
Bond / Angle Manipulate (e.g., tweak lengths and angles rather than move in 3D cartesian coordinates)
Measure (e.g., click on atoms to measure distances, angles, etc.)
Animate (e.g., show a molecular movie / dynamics)
Align (e.g., set the molecule along the X / Y / Z axis)
Auto Optimize (e.g., let the computer find a low energy geometry)
Auto Rotate (e.g., spin the molecule for presentations)

In short, we share some concepts with Blender and CAD programs, but have our own set of tools and needs. Some chemistry experience is probably helpful, but not required. We’ve used our programs with high school and college students and it should be intuitive and fun to use.

Beyond icon design, we’d love some discussion about UI / UX and interaction. We want to strike a balance between “any student can use it” and “plenty of features for experts.” For example a computer graphics student contributed new “layer” features as part of Google Summer of Code and it was eye-opening. They could be used to simplify a lot of tasks – so now we’re wondering what else could improve our experience.

How to Apply:

Geoff Hutchison (lead dev) geoff.hutchison@gmail.com
Current screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/nLRiwKp Example updates: https://imgur.com/a/eZx7J5m Version 1 homepage: https://avogadro.cc Version 2 beta: https://two.avogadro.cc Main GitHub repo: https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs

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Design contributors for Open Food Systems platform: UX, research, UI, Visual Design, build your own project etc. (April 2021)

Open Food Network — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:26:36 +0000

Organization: Open Food Network

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: User research, interaction design, visual design

The project is looking for design contributions of all kinds.

Check out https://www.openfoodnetwork.org/become-a-contributor/ for info on how to become a contributor

Join our OFN slack and join the #design-circle channel:https://www.openfoodnetwork.org/slack-invite

Head to the WIP welcome new designers board https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/design/projects/1

Take a look at the design ‘potential initiatives’

The design function at OFN is very new and growing and as such is slow moving. This is a project that needs your design support but much is going to be ‘self started’ and while Eriol will be there to help guide you through an open source design project there is still a longer embdedding process that design needs to do before it can move through the ‘pipeline’ of OSS work in OFN quicker.

Join one of our volunteer onboarding calls that happen on every Thursday at alternating times for different timezones.

The first and third Thursdays of a month are at 09.00am GMT UK time. UK, EU, MENA, Pan-Africa, JST, AEST and India timezone friendly

The second and fourth Thursdays of a month are at 20.00 GMT UK time. All USA timezone friendly and late EU and Pan Africa timezone friendly.

In this zoom room: https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/2553875696

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork/blob/master/LICENCE.txt

How to Apply:

erioldoesdesign@gmail.com
https://www.openfoodnetwork.org/become-a-contributor/

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UX Engineer (m/f/d) (2 years)

Wikimedia Germany e. V. — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:13:47 +0000

Organization: Wikimedia Germany e. V.

Status: filled

Compensation: paid

Role: User Experience

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. is a non-profit organisation based in Berlin, Germany. Our objective is to create a world in which the sum of all human knowledge is freely accessible for everyone.

We are looking for a UX Engineer (m/f/d) in part or fulltime to join our Software & Development Department at the heart of Berlin to support the future growth of our Wikidata Platform. You will be responsible for ensuring our design goes hand in hand with the underlying technology.

Consider design and development needs for an efficient design infrastructure
Design behaviour and style of UI components
Communication with engineers and engineering leads to create the components
Ensure a transition from the current user interface to a design system and style guide based interface

How to Apply:

[Please contact us via our online platform](https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/3696022/UX-Engineer--m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=10049097&l=en)

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UI design, usability testing, and data visualisation for Open Corporate Facts

Open Corporate Facts — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:51:29 +0000

Organization: Open Corporate Facts

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: interaction design , ui design , usability testing

Open Corporate Facts (OCF) is in early stages. There is no demo site yet.

The vision is building a website for helping journalists, members of ONG, scientists and also simple consumers, to investigate on corporations. It could be seen as the Open Food Facts of corporations.

It aims to build a big database filled with a maximum of financial data publicly disclose by corporations, in a collaborative way with all it’s user.

We are looking for a partner for this project. If you are interested, has some development skill, and motivated by the goal of the project it could really help.

The website would also provide ways to see and explore the data, and even download it.

Basic visualization would be: percentage of money spent by a corporation for its employees, for tax, to buy merchandise, to give to shareholders.

How to Apply:

leonard.michelet@gmail.com
https://github.com/leonarf/OpenCorporateFacts - software repository https://opencorporates.com/ - an open database containing a some data about a lot of corporations https://fr.openfoodfacts.org/ - the open food fact website, whose concept is inspiring

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UI design and usability testing for Alerta web console

Alerta - web monitoring — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:35:04 +0000

Organization: Alerta - web monitoring

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: interaction design , ui design , usability testing , user research

Alerta is looking for help to evaluate the usability of it’s new version and also improve interface design which is currently in beta.

The alerta tool is a monitoring system that allows systems administrators and IT engineers use just one system to monitor alerts from many other monitoring tools on a single screen.

Alerta consolidates and de-duplicate server alerts from multiple sources for quick ‘at-a-glance’ visualisation.

The web app is single page app, which is “responsive” to screen size and should work well on mobile and tablet. It is also used in “kiosk” mode which is fullscreen without any menus so only the alert list is shown.

A live demo of the beta is at https://beta.alerta.io (NB: use a dummy email address to “sign up” and login to use the demo).

The web app makes extensive use of a web component framework based called Vuetify which is a Vue.js implementation of the Material Design Spec.

How to Apply:

nick.satterly@gmail.com
https://alerta.io/ https://github.com/alerta/alerta/ https://docs.alerta.io https://beta.alerta.io https://twitter.com/alertaio https://vuejs.org https://vuetifyjs.com

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Design and testing of "user adding new project" user journey for Kitspace.org

Kitspace — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 07:58:32 +0000

Organization: Kitspace

Status: expired

Compensation: gratis

Role: interaction design , ui design , usability testing

Kitspace is looking for help to improve the user experience for a new user who wants to add a new project to Kitspace.

Kitspace is a website for the electronics projects community. It could be described as a “Thingiverse for electronics” - a registry of open hardware electronics projects.

It provides you with all the information you need to order and build the project - click on any project to get further info, download the Gerbers and see the bill of materials.

How to Apply:

kaspar@kitspace.org
https://kitspace.org/ https://github.com/kitspace/kitspace https://bom-builder.kitspace.org https://riot.im/app/#/room/#kitspace:matrix.org

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UX/UI design help needed for a new file sharing project

Arbore — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:43:08 +0000

Arbore is a social file-sharing application. The goal is to provide a way for people to share pictures/documents/whatever with their friends/colleagues/contacts privately and safely. The second goal is to reduce the dependency of people to the silo of data that are Facebook, Google, Dropbox ... that trap them. In short, to provide a viable alternative solution and to help people protect their private life. Alternative solution already exists but require technical knowledge and time to setup and maintain. In part because of that, they are not very successful. Arbore is my attempt to change that. I think that such a tool should be as easy to setup and use as VLC. This project is already well underway and close to a working MVP. That said, I need help from people more knowledgeable than me in UX and UI design to make it really slick and beautiful. I'm just a developer after all ! Even if the current state is not terrible, it could be much better. And on a project like this, it's the difference between success or not.

Design review for mindfulness application

Mindfulness at the Computer — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:46:04 +0000

Organization: Mindfulness at the Computer

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: Interaction design

Mindfulness at the Computer helps you stay mindful of your breathing while using your computer. We need help with reviewing the design and finding ways to improve it. For example: 1. Right now the application has various reminders and notifications and we are trying to find ways to better use these. 2. Also we are looking for ways to use the rest dialog

How to Apply:

Tord (lead dev)

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Logo Design for Human-Machine Interface in Education

Lumi — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:36:57 +0000

Organization: Lumi

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: Logo Design

Lumi is a Raspberry Pi based reactive web-app that connects everyone in the same room via local WIFI and thus opens a whole new dimension of interactive group learning .

Your role is to develop an early stage logo-concept that will manifest itself in various forms, depending on the medium and consumer that is faced with Lumi. Right now we have 3 major use-cases: -logo for website/social media -logo that is printed on raspberry pi case (is on the hardware itself - in the classroom) -logo that occurs in the app (i.e. also in the “virtual classroom”) Designers that also invited to start conecptualizing a custimizable User-Interface (allthough this will be part of a later job)

How to Apply:

Andrej Kliman

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UX/Interaction Designer Wikipedia(f/m)

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:44:47 +0000

Organization: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

Status: filled

Compensation: paid

Role: Interaction Design, UX

As an UX/Interaction Designer (f/m) you will work on the Software behind projects like Wikipedia and Wikidata to improve their user experience and enable our communities to achieve our Vision: A world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

We are looking for someone to join our teams in our office in the heart of Berlin. You will be working in our small UX team, closely working together with the other teams’ engineers, product managers and the community communication team.

Responsibilities:

Design concepts and interfaces for both beginners and experienced users of our projects.
Discuss and iteratively improve ideas with fellow Designers, Product Managers, Engineers and the community.
Distill complex concepts into easy to understand talking points, graphics or prototypes to effectively.

Qualifications/Your skills:

At least a master’s degree or equivalent working experience.
Communicate fluently in English.
Efficiently create mock ups of various fidelities to allow iteration, testing and decision making support.
Knowledge of best practices and established design patterns in UI and interaction design.
Understand and consider technical constraints in collaboration with our software engineers.
Experience in working with agile and human centered methods, iteratively developing your designs based on new insights.

Plus:

Experience with volunteer communities.
Experience in fields like usability testing, programming in HTML/CSS/Javascript or typography.
German language skills.

What we offer you:

You will have a noticeable impact on one of the top four visited websites in the world.
All software we develop is Open Source, and we share our methods, designs and code.
We’re constantly trying to improve the way we work via retros and by trying new working methods.
You can attend local user groups during work time and you are encouraged to do so.
We regularly go to conferences, both as attendees and presenters.
Remote work is possible after consultation.

How to Apply:

sandra.muellrick@wikimedia.de

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Design improvements (both usability/concept and look&feel)

NARROWS — Fri, 26 May 2017 18:30:03 +0000

Organization: NARROWS

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: Design overview

The whole design (both concepts/interaction and looks) needs a review by someone who knows about this.

Although I do have a number of ideas and design constraints, I’m open in many ways.

How to Apply:

Esteban

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open source storage technologies

Red Hat, Inc. — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: Red Hat, Inc.

Status: closed

Compensation: unspecified

Role: UX Design

To apply, please visit http://jobs.redhat.com/jobs/descriptions/senior-interaction-designer-user-experience-westford-massachusetts-job-4-4919601

Senior Interaction Designer - User Experience

Job ID: 44671
Westford, MA
Remote: No

Company description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing technologies that solve business problems. We’re a billion dollar S&P 500 company offering solutions from Linux to middleware, storage to cloud, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services.

Job summary

The Red Hat Engineering organization is seeking a Senior Interaction Designer to join our User Experience Design team in Westford, MA. In this role, you will participate in and contribute to an interdisciplinary team that includes other user experience designers, developers, product and marketing managers, and other stakeholders throughout all phases of the development cycle. You’ll manage the user experience on one or more Red Hat product lines and seek to solve usability issues, and facilitate discussions with customers to understand their user experiences so that you can effectively communicate needs and create sound improvements with internal, cross-functional teams.

Primary job responsibilities

Manage the user experience vision for one or more products or product lines
Identify the right problems to solve, gauge the usability of products, and make sound recommendations for improvements
Clearly understand and articulate the information architecture, workflows, and processes surrounding the user experience
Create wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design
Design and carry out targeted usability tests to validate design choices
Work with developers to implement strategies that ensure technical success

Required skills

Bachelor’s degree or higher in interaction design, visual design, human computer interaction, human factors, computer science, or a closely related area
7+ years of experience with the user interface design process and methodology, particularly as applied to web-based applications
Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams with minimal supervision
Experience with Agile development and open source projects is a plus
Candidates must present a portfolio of user experience work (include links to work within your resume)

Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military status or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

How to Apply:

Apply at http://jobs.redhat.com/jobs/descriptions/senior-interaction-designer-user-experience-westford-massachusetts-job-4-4919601

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