UI/UX Designer

Duties of the UI/UX Designer will include the following:

UI/UX Design & Scientific Visualization

• Information Architecture: Restructure navigation, user flows, and site hierarchy so diverse personas (from commercial airline dispatchers to casual skywatchers) can quickly find critical alerts and data.
• Complex Data UI: Design intuitive visual layouts, dashboards, maps, and chart interfaces for real-time space weather data (e.g., K-index scales, aurora oval predictions, solar image feeds).
• Wireframing & Prototyping: Build low-fidelity sketches, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive Figma prototypes to validate feature ideas before handing off to developers.

User Research & Testing

• User Advocacy: Conduct user interviews, surveys, and usability testing with critical stakeholders (power grid operators, pilots, emergency managers, researchers) to understand their operational workflows.
• Iterative Design: Use analytics, feedback loops, and usability findings to refine designs and eliminate friction in high-stress monitoring environments.

Design System & Accessibility

• US Web Design System (USWDS): Build and maintain a unified Figma component library based on the US Web Design System and NOAA brand standards.
• Accessibility First (Section 508): Design inclusive interfaces adhering to WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines, ensuring color choices, visual hierarchy, and graph concepts translate well for all users.
• Developer Handoff: Provide clean, pixel-perfect design specifications, redlines, asset exports, and interaction notes to software engineers., 2. Figma UI Library: Establish a standardized Figma design library aligned with USWDS guidelines for all future web products. 3. High-Fidelity Prototypes: Deliver fully spec’d UI designs and interactive prototypes for updated high-priority alerts and aurora forecasting pages ready for engineering handoff.

About Lynker

Lynker is a growing, employee owned business, specializing in professional, scientific and technical services. Our continually expanding team combines scientific expertise with mature, results-driven processes and tools to achieve technically sound, cost effective solutions in hydrology/water sciences, geospatial analysis, information technology, resource management, conservation, and management and business process improvement.

We focus on putting the right people in the right place to be effective. And having the right people is critical for success. Our streamlined organization enables and empowers our talented professionals to tackle our customers’ scientific and technical priorities - creatively and effectively.

Lynker offers a team-oriented work environment, and the opportunity to work in a culture of exceptionally skilled professionals who embrace sound science and creative solutions. Lynker’s benefits include the following:

• Personalized career growth plans for every employee

The UI/UX Designer selected should have the following:

• Experience: 3+ years in UI/UX design, visual design, or product design.
• Portfolio: Demonstrates UI/UX projects, design systems, data visual mockups, and user research processes.
• Design Tools: Mastery of Figma (components, auto-layout, interactive prototyping) or equivalent tools (Adobe XD, Sketch, Illustrator).
• Accessibility Knowledge: Strong understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA standards for visual design (contrast ratios, readable typography, colorblind-friendly data palettes).
• Communication: Ability to articulate design decisions clearly to scientists, program managers, and engineering teams.

The Ideal UI/UX Designer will have the following:

• Background or experience designing visual UI for scientific, meteorological, geospatial, or complex data monitoring dashboards.
• Experience applying or adapting component-based design systems (especially USWDS).

$77,000.00