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# contract UX/UI Designer

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment Partners LLC.
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Collaborative Software, Design of User Interfaces, Interaction Design, Service Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Website Wireframe, Figma, Interactive Whiteboards
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/7a0a28e8-0f6b-42a1-8b8b-03a2c1011429

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience in UX/UI or digital product design
 * Strong experience planning and running usability testing
 * Advanced proficiency with Figma, including high-fidelity prototyping
 * Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards
 * Ability to synthesize research findings into actionable design recommendations
 * Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams

Desired Skills & Experience

 * Background working in complex or highly regulated environments
 * Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
 * Comfort facilitating design workshops and stakeholder sessions
 * Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Miro
 * Strong systems-thinking and service-design mindset

## Description

This is a contract UX/UI Designer role supporting a public-facing digital platform used by a large and diverse user base. The position is hybrid within the Boston Area and embedded within a small, collaborative design group. The focus of the role is on user research, usability testing, and high-fidelity interface design, with heavy use of Figma and modern accessibility standards. This is a short-term contract engagement with consistent weekly hours.

This role is ideal for a designer who enjoys owning meaningful research-driven work and seeing their designs quickly move into production. You'll work closely with product partners, engineers, researchers, and senior stakeholders to improve real-world digital experiences that impact a broad audience. The work emphasizes thoughtful problem-solving, accessibility, and facilitation. Offering a strong opportunity to deepen experience in service design, usability testing, and design systems while maintaining solid work-life balance., * Conducting and facilitating usability tests for web-based applications and content

 * Translating research insights into accessible, user-centered UI solutions
 * Designing and iterating on wireframes and production-ready interfaces
 * Contributing components and patterns to an existing design system
 * Reviewing UX/UI work produced by partner teams
 * Collaborating with product, engineering, data, and policy stakeholders

Tech Breakdown

 * 60% UX/UI Design & Prototyping (Figma)
 * 25% User Research & Usability Testing
 * 15% Design System Contributions & Documentation

Daily Responsibilities

 * 75% Hands-on design and research work
 * 15% Stakeholder collaboration and facilitation
 * 10% Documentation, reviews, and design system updates


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