Freelance Interactive Designer

**Freelance Interaction / Motion Designer

( Product / UI / Motion)**

Start: ASAP

Duration: 3 months (likely to extend)

Rate: £450/day via Umbrella

Onsite: 5 days per week

Location: East London

What You'll Do

Motion Design:

Define and deliver the motion system for a mobile product experience:

• Loading and processing states - how the interface communicates that work is happening.
• Transitions between contexts - smooth, purposeful movement as users move between tasks.
• Approval and confirmation choreography - moments where users pause, review, and act.
• Content appearance - how new information reveals itself on screen.
• Error and recovery - how the interface communicates problems gracefully.
• Micro-interactions - the small things: button feedback, expansion, selection, reorder.
• Iconography:

Design a cohesive icon set from scratch:

• Functional icons across multiple capability areas.
• State indicators - processing, success, failure, pending.
• Any illustrations for empty states and onboarding. Prototyping and Handoff:
• High-fidelity motion prototypes that demonstrate timing and feel.
• Engineer-ready exports.
• Design system contributions with full usage guidelines and motion tokens.

Key Deliverables

• A motion system: principles, tokens, and reference animations.
• An icon set covering all functional areas and states.
• Motion prototypes for core user flows.
• Exported assets and developer handoff documentation.

Skills and Experience

Essential :

A portfolio that demonstrates craft in interaction and motion design for mobile - timing,

choreography, micro-detail.

Deep expertise in motion principles: easing, duration, sequencing, and how motion communicates state.

Experience designing icon systems with consistent weight, grid, and visual language.

Proficiency in Figma and a motion tool (After Effects + Lottie, Principle, Rive, or similar).

Experience contributing to a design system with motion and component specs.

Understanding of motion accessibility (prefers-reduced-motion, WCAG guidelines).

Ability to hand off work cleanly to engineers.

Preferred:

• Experience with card-based or flowing interfaces (messaging, support, or similar patterns).
• Familiarity with designing for dynamically generated content and real-time interactions.
• Experience in trust-sensitive domains (financial services, health, government).
• Understanding of Lottie workflows and mobile animation performance.
• React Native awareness is a plus.

Must have experience and samples of:

• App-based product work
• Interaction design / UI elements
• Figma motion / prototyping
• Screen transitions
• Drop-down / component behaviour
• Loading states / spinners
• Mobile apps
• Scrolling / navigation principles
• Motion principles / design system thinking
• Tech or digital product examples
• Work that has gone into production

Experience as:

• Product Motion Designer
• Motion / Interaction Designer
• UI Motion Designer
• Interaction Designer with motion examples
• Product Designer with strong motion / prototyping examples
• Figma motion / prototype specialists