About Us

We are a small development team behind Cosmic Walk, an app that takes hard-to imagine distances and periods of time and turns them into walkable distances. “The Solar System”, for example, compresses the 4.5 billion kilometres between the Sun and Neptune into a one-kilometre walk, sending audio notifications as you pass each planet. The walks are meant to be podcast-style experiences, consisting of relatively continuous narration, with each “chapter” triggered as users reach corresponding events.

https://www.cosmicwalk.app/

We have also developed a web-based content management system (CMS) that allows writers and educators to create their own walks, which can be downloaded to the app.

The Role

We're looking for a designer with strong mobile and Web design experience, to help us redesign aspects of our iOS app, and to help us overhaul the design of our content management system.

Over the past several months we've been working with users and students to determine the general design direction of both the app and the CMS. You will be working directly with us to consolidate, reflect on, and extend these ideas into a series of mockups.

Qualifications

• You have a strong portfolio of UI design work for both iOS app and Web app work. Applicants should come prepared to show design work that best showcases your skillset as a designer.

• You are obsessive and opinionated about design in the real world (everything from fonts to buildings) and have strong attention to detail.

• You have experience communicating with developers (dimension/sizes, interactions, etc.). You should have experience preparing full spec wireframes for hand-off to a developer and ideally can come prepared to show some samples 

• You are fluent in Figma or Sketch

• You are passionate about science (especially astronomy or evolutionary biology!)

• A bonus if you have experience illustrating and/or creating infographics

The role is part-time, expecting 20-30 hours a month, and we are open to flexible schedules, as long as you are available for calls during the day in the Eastern time zone.

We have a slight preference for someone who is based in Toronto or Halifax.