UI/UX Designer (Contract)

Nex · San Francisco

Design

Nex is hiring a UI/UX Designer (Contract) in San Francisco, California. Posted 28 July 2026. Apply directly on Nex's own careers site — no account needed.

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Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

Nex employees may be expected to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones. Depending on the role and location, occasional travel may also be required for company events, external meetings, and other business-related activities.

Important Notice: ⚠️ To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time Contractor, with the possibility to extend or convert
Reports to: UI/UX Manager

The Role

We are seeking an exceptionally talented UI/UX Designer with a strong visual impulse and elevated design craft to help shape the future of active motion gaming.

In this role, your primary strength lies in visualizing intuitive, high-impact user interfaces. You will turn complex motion interactions into visually captivating, delightful, and pixel-perfect UI experiences that resonate across diverse age groups from young kids to parents.

You will work at the intersection of game UI, visual storytelling, and interactive design, collaborating closely with game designers, and engineers to elevate the overall aesthetic standard of our products.

What You'll Do

Define & Elevate Visual Identity: Craft stunning, dynamic visual languages and UI systems for brand-new motion-based family games, ensuring each title has a distinct, delightful, and highly polished aesthetic.
High-Craft UI Design & Asset Production: Create production-ready UI components, visual assets and iconography that adapt seamlessly to various art styles.
Cross-Functional Craft Delivery: Collaborate closely with game developers and tech artists to ensure visual fidelity, UI animations, and design details are executed flawlessly in the final build.
Uphold Design Excellence: Maintain an uncompromising eye for detail, establishing best-in-class visual quality, UI consistency, and craft standards across our entire design system.

What We're Looking For

Visual & UI Portfolio: A strong, visually driven portfolio demonstrating exceptional talent in UI layout, high visual craft, color expression, visual hierarchy, and game interface design.
Mastery of Visual Craft: Outstanding foundation in visual aesthetics, advanced layout principles, dynamic typography, color theory, component design, and iconography.
Tool Mastery: Deep proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), and UI prototyping/motion tools.
Versatile Art Styles: Ability to quickly adapt and design across multiple visual styles.
Execution & Detail Orientation: Obsessive about visual precision, alignment, and pixel perfection without losing sight of overall project timelines.

We Offer

Competitive compensation package.
Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at https://www.nexplayground.com/about.

We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!

Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.

We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.

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