UI/UX Designer

• Design end-to-end flows and interfaces for government digital services across web and mobile, in Arabic and English.
• •     Translate research, service blueprints, and stakeholder requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready UI.
• •     Build and maintain components in the Dubai Design System, and contribute patterns back to it rather than designing one-offs.
• •     Prototype interactions in Figma to communicate motion, state, and edge cases to developers and stakeholders.
• •     Work directly with front-end engineers through hand-off, implementation, and QA review of the built product.
• •     Design to WCAG 2.2 AA from the start, covering contrast, target sizes, focus states, keyboard paths, and screen reader behaviour.
• •     Present and defend design decisions to stakeholders across government entities.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Figma (essential)

  • Expert-level: auto layout, variables and modes, component properties, variants, nested instances, and constraints.

  • Comfortable building and consuming a shared library rather than only working in local files.

  • Clean, well-named, well-structured files that another designer can pick up without a walkthrough.

  Front-end understanding (strongly preferred)

  • Solid grasp of HTML semantics and CSS: the box model, flexbox, grid, responsive breakpoints, and how design tokens map to CSS variables.

  • Understands component-based front-end thinking (props, states, composition) and can read a component's implementation to see why something behaves the way it does.

  • Knows the cost of a design decision before proposing it, and can talk to engineers in their terms.

  • Bonus: has built and shipped something themselves, however small.

  Design taste

  • A portfolio showing strong typography, spacing, hierarchy, and restraint, not just tidy wireframes.

  • Can explain why a design works, not only that it looks good.

  • Attention to craft at the pixel level, with judgement about when that level of detail matters.

  Ways of working

  • Handles ambiguity and shifting requirements without stalling.

  • Communicates clearly in writing and in presentations.

  • Takes feedback from stakeholders who are not designers and turns it into the underlying problem.

  Nice to have

  • Arabic and English bilingual design experience, including RTL layout and Arabic typography.

  • Experience designing within or contributing to a large design system.

  • Public sector or large-scale enterprise product experience.

  • Accessibility work beyond compliance checklists, such as assistive technology testing.

  • Familiarity with design tokens tooling, Storybook, or version-controlled hand-off workflows