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UI/UX Designer (Game Porting)
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Posted
July 26, 2026
Contract
GMT ± 4 hours
Remote
Viridian Software provides specialized console porting expertise to game developers and publishers around the world. The company focuses on console programming to bring games built in major, niche, and custom engines to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch platforms. Viridian collaborates closely with partners to ensure that gameplay, performance, and user experience translate effectively across console ecosystems. Team members work with a variety of genres and technologies, contributing to high-quality console releases for diverse audiences.
Role Description
This full-time remote role is for a Game UI/UX Designer focused on game porting over a 3-month engagement. The designer will adapt and optimize existing game interfaces for console platforms, ensuring layouts, navigation, and controls feel intuitive and consistent with platform guidelines. Day-to-day tasks include analyzing current UI/UX flows, creating wireframes and mockups, iterating on interaction patterns, and collaborating with engineers to implement and refine designs. The role also involves usability reviews, identifying accessibility improvements, and aligning visual elements with performance and input constraints of each console. The designer will work closely with cross-functional teams to maintain design quality while meeting project timelines and technical requirements.
Responsibilies
Work with the UX/UI lead to rework a game's UX/UI for consoles and work on new UI elements from scratch
Create wireframes that follow existing design languages & translate static visual mockups into high-fidelity wireframes
Take feedback & quickly adapt prototypes
Implement UX/UI within game-specific pipelines
Required Skills
Read, write and speak proficiently in English.
Familiar with UX principles (clarity, efficiency, cohesion, user-centered design, accessibility)
Familiar with UX for games
Proficient in Figma
Familiar with Unity and Unreal Engine
Good organisation skills, able to follow and upkeep shared UX documentation
Basic photoshop knowledge for UI asset creation
Self-motivated, comfortable working in a remote-first environment
Good attention to detail
Comfort working in an iterative, deadline-driven setting
Ability to collaborate effectively with programmers, artists, and producers, and to communicate design decisions
Nice to Have
Previous UI/UX experience in games
Familiar with the differences between designing for keyboard/mouse and designing for gamepads
Familiar with setting up UI screens & elements in Unity and Unreal engine
Additional Details
Application Requirement. Please submit a link to your portfolio
Location. Remote (must overlap with GMT timezone)
Salary. Depending on location and experience
Required Qualifications. Game Design, UX Design, or similar degree
About
Viridian
Viridian Software is a video game studio established in Ireland in 2017. We develop new story-focused video games and provide porting, publishing and co-development services to game developers and publishers worldwide.
Since establishment, we have developed innovative game development tools and independent games, and have established partnerships with various publishers and distributors in Europe, America and Asia…