UI/UX Designer
LekkeSlaap
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience: 2+ years🎨 Design user-friendly, thoughtful experiences across mobile + web apps🖌️ Build and evolve our design system to support a growing product + team🤝 Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and marketing📐 Champion a consistent, scalable visual language across platforms🛠️ Master Figma and help establish best practices within the team📍 Hybrid in V&A Waterfront, Cape Town (2 days in-office)Who we are at Tripco:LekkeSlaap is South Africa’s leading accommodation booking app known for its user-friendliness, exceptional customer experience, and extensive local accommodation options. Owned by Tripco, a travel technology company based in Cape Town, LekkeSlaap is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and maintaining high standards in travel technology.Responsibilities:
- Design with purpose: Craft thoughtful, user-friendly experiences across our web and mobile apps, ensuring both form and function are considered.
- Build and evolve our design system: You’ll play a key role in creating a scalable design foundation that supports our growing product and team.
- Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with engineering, marketing, product, and leadership to solve complex problems and bring features to life.
- Champion consistency: Help bring a cohesive visual language to our platforms and documentation, aligning design decisions with brand and usability goals.
- Master your tools: Use Figma to its full potential and help establish best practices for the team. You don’t have to be an expert yet – but you should be eager to become one.
- At least 2 years of experience in product, UI, or UX design.
- A strong portfolio showcasing your design thinking, systems thinking, and craft across multiple digital products.
- Experience or a strong interest in building and maintaining design systems.
- A passion for creating scalable and reusable design solutions that benefit both users and teams.
- Comfortable communicating and collaborating with a wide range of people – from developers to directors.
- Curiosity and empathy for users, with a desire to validate your work through user research and testing.
- Proficiency in Figma (or similar tools), with a desire to go deep into the tool and continuously level up.
- Comfortable working in a hybrid setup with at least two in-office days per week.
- Experience with web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Past experience in the e-commerce and/or the online travel industry
- Exposure to branding and visual identity
- Hybrid work setup (2 days in our office based in the beautiful Cape Town V&A Waterfront) – parking included
- Flexible start times
- Free lunch on in-office days
- Discovery Medical Aid contributions & Vitality Health subscription.
- Retirement Annuity fund contribution
- Flexible leave policy with 20 days of annual leave
- Get a half-day off every month (which adds up to 6 extra days!)
- Digital nomad month (work from anywhere)
- Showers on site
- Travel vouchers and discounts
- High-end laptops and workstation setup for both in-office and home
- Team budget for learning, online courses, and conferences
- Regular team events and more!