2021年夏期休業
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＜休業期間＞
2021年8月9日（月）～ 2021年8月13日（金）
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Work with us
Does Creating Great Visual Designs and User Experiences appeal to you? Do you want to be part of a fast-growing design studio that offers a plethora of career progression opportunities?
Are you passionate about your craft, creative, and meticulous?
If your answers are “Yes” to the above questions, hear us out.
We are looking for talented creatives to support our design and product development team to build visual and digital products to create massive value for our clients.
You will be working closely with our team in creating fantastic brand images and user experiences for our clients (responsive websites). Creating impressive brand visuals together with seamless and user-friendly digital experiences means a lot to us. Your work is instrumental in putting smiles on our different stakeholders’ faces when they interact with our products and see our presentations.
As a creative in our team, we will challenge you to grow professionally. You will also get a lot of freedom to express your style and get opportunities to lead your projects. You must be open-minded, highly inquisitive, and love to apply what you learned to solve real-world problems.
If you have a great eye for visuals, that’s awesome. Let’s take that further so that you can produce practical and effective user experience and user interface designs.
As a freelance design partner you will:
- Develop unique concepts and philosophies for brands, based on provided outlines and research.
- Design stylescapes to conceptualise designs and convey branding plans to clients.
- Design Logos that express our clients’ business vision and personality.
- Create overall concepts for the user experience within a business webpage or product, ensuring all interactions are intuitive and easy for customers
- Design the UI elements of responsive websites, from the layout menus and drop-down options to colours and fonts.
- Include motion and animation concepts in your design, to make the interfaces spark with joy and life.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to take products from concept to delivery. Work closely with the developers to implement your high-quality user interface design up to the final stage.
Skills and Competences:
- 1-3 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UI design
- Strong knowledge of wireframes, layouts, graphic fundamentals, brand development, typography, limitations of the web, and industry best practices.
- Proficient with visual design programs such as Sketch, Invision, Adobe Suite.
- Possesses strong communication skills to articulate a creative point of view, including opinion, intent, and thought process behind creative choices.
- An excellent keen eye for detail and desire for consistency.
- Ability to work independently and with other teams.
- Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks efficiently. Delivers great designs, on deadline, and to brief.
- Professional written and interpersonal skills.
- English Language to Business Level. Japanese knowledge is not required.
- Extra “Good To Haves: not compulsory for this role but a good to have!” Being proficient in HTML/CSS/JS or 3D modeling and rendering/CG art.
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.
About you:
- Intense Passion In What You Do: You should ideally have an unwavering commitment towards delivering great work. You should always challenge yourself and your team members to think creatively. Research should be second nature to you when it comes to identifying the best practices & how you can leverage them in your work.
- Willingness To Learn & Collaborate: We need team players who can work well with different stakeholders throughout the entire design process. You must be open to receiving and giving feedback so that everyone can learn together.
- Commitment & Perseverance: You must be committed to mastery and be willing to put in the hard work to learn as much as possible. It’s common to expect putting in extra hours during the training phase to get your fundamentals right. Trust me, it’ll pay off eventually.
Work Arrangement
- Remote working from anywhere around the world, arrange your schedule freely, take day-offs anytime.
- Period of Engagement: 3-6 months (with the prospects of extension based on business needs & work performance)
- Job Types: Part-time with salary or Project-based with compensation
- Salary: To be discussed and depending on the competences
Next Steps
1) Contact us at jacopo@aposto.jp
2) Include in your message: a link to your portfolio, your availability, and your hourly rate.
If you’re shortlisted, you’ll receive an email and a text to advise you on the next steps in the hiring process. Otherwise, you will not hear from us. (*NOTE: We only consider submissions with portfolios.)
Notice of Summer Closure 2020
We will be closed for summer holiday during the period below.
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: August 10th(Mon) to August 17th(Mon)
Notice of Office closure
Due to the 2020 Golden Week holidays in Japan, our office will be closed on the following days
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: 29th April to 6th May
Notice of Office closure during new year holidays
We will be closed for new year holidays during the period below.
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: 25th December to 3rd January
Notice of Summer Closure 2019
We will be closed for summer holiday during the period below.
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: August 12th(Mon) to August 16th(Fri)
Notice of Office closure
Due to the Golden Week holidays in Japan, our office will be closed on the following days
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: 23th April to 6th May
Notice of Office closure during new year holidays
We will be closed for new year holidays during the period below.
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: 28th December to 7th January
Case study: how our redesign can affect your website
This summer we have redesigned and rebuilt our client’s website: Safety Driving School (SDA) Tsuruoka. Today, after some months from the launch of the new platform (that happened at the beginning of September) we have some statistics on the usage of the website by the users. We would like to show you the positive effect that our redesign had on the website, and therefore on the business.
First of all, we have detected a +22% in website users. This is probably related to the fact that faster and more modern websites are ranked higher by search engines, and this can drive more visitors from the search results.
Another important statistic is the bounce rate. The bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that leave your website after looking only at one page. If this percentage is high, it means that either your website is slow, or it’s not appealing or doesn’t offer the information the user was looking for. In fact, these factors make the user leave quickly and probably turn the attention to the website of a competitor.
With the new design of SDA, we were able to cut the bounce rate from 35% to just 2%. It means that 98% of the users now, after checking the first page (the one from which they landed on the website) are engaged in finding out more about the driving school.
It’s not all: we also have registered an increase in the number of pages visited by each user, from a 4.47 pages/user before the redesign, up to a 9.12 pages/user after the redesign. Thanks to the easy navigation and proper positioning of links and banners we were able to increase the engagement and appeal, bringing visitors to more areas of the website.
This is what a healthy website looks like, and this is also what your website can experience with a redesign. So, better give us a call!
Styling radio buttons
A radio button or option button is a little circular element that allows the user to choose only one of a predefined set of mutually exclusive options. Each radio button is normally accompanied by a label describing the choice that the radio button represents.
Radio buttons were named after the physical buttons used on older radios to select preset stations – when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons would pop out, leaving the pressed button the only button in the “pushed in” position.
If you stick with the default options, radio buttons look different on different browsers, and most of all they look disconnected from the graphic style of a website. This is how radio buttons look by default in your browser:
Fortunately the styling of radio buttons became possible with the introduction of CSS3. There are literally hundreds of different ways you can style your CSS radio buttons and checkbox input fields. We have made a basic style in only CSS that serves as starting point for our projects’ radio buttons. We then experiment with color, style, and even functionality to make them completely customized and unique for each client.
Here is our HTML and CSS3 only styled radio buttons, compatibles with all browsers. Feel free to use the code.
See the Pen CSS styled Radio Buttons by Jacopo Drago (@jacopo-drago) on CodePen.
Notice of Summer Closure
We will be closed for summer holiday during the period below.
Your understanding and cooperation would be appreciated.
Holiday Period: August 13th(Mon) ～ August 16th(Thu)
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We have just renewed our website!
Dear clients and partners!
As you can see, we have completely renewed our website!
We hope that you will like the renewed version of our Website!