User Interface Designer

Job Title : UI Designer

Location : Brussels, Belgium

Languages : Dutch – Native

Job Description:

UI Designer – Loketplatform Service

Key Responsibilities

As a UI Designer, you will be responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and evolving the Flanders Design System, ensuring consistency and scalability across applications. Your tasks will include:

Strategic Design Alignment

• Align various digital counters within the Flemish government to establish a unified design language.
• Optimize citizen-facing counters, including My Citizen Profile, payment modules, and notification systems.

Enterprise Design System Enhancement

• Overhaul the visual and structural aspects of the Flanders Design System, ensuring:
• Recognizability & consistent user experience while balancing customization.
• Maximum use of theming and design tokens.
• Harmonize web and mobile variants of the Flanders Design System for consistency.

Community & Collaboration Development

• Foster a community around the Flanders Design System, enabling collaboration.
• Define tooling strategies for Figma and Storybook, ensuring design-to-code consistency.

Branding, Documentation & Agile Collaboration

• Ensure branding and design system consistency across government platforms.
• Document design decisions and share knowledge internally.
• Collaborate Agile-style with UX designers, product owners, analysts, and developers.
• Identify new UI skills and trends, providing coaching to internal teams and stakeholders.

Technical Skills & Tools

• Design Tools: Figma, Storybook, Docusaurus, Chromatic
• Development Technologies: Vue3, ReactNative, Native Web Components, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Build & Integration Tools: Vite, Webpack
• Accessibility Standards: a11y - WCAG
• Project Management: Jira, Confluence

Soft Skills:

• Strong attention to detail with pixel-perfect execution.
• Ability to defend design decisions, evangelize, and mediate for consensus.
• Problem-solving mindset with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while actively contributing to the Scrum team.
• Leadership skills in UI design and strategy planning.