The Ubyssey is making a significant investment in the design of our products, the print or digital mediums where people read our journalism. As a part of that, we're creating dedicated, formalized teams for that work, and we need Product Designers for our website.
This application form closes on January 26 at 8 p.m. We welcome applications from members of marginalized communities.
Your privacy is important to us. The information collected by us using this form will only be used by and disclosed to relevant editors to process your application. If you are selected, when we meet you in person, we'll ask to see your UBC Student Card to verify your identity, but we will not be collecting that information here. Artificial intelligence will not be used in processing your application in any way, and all decisions will be made by our team of real people.
The role requires about five hours of volunteer service per week.
Digital Designers will make continuous visual and experience adjustments to our website, and prepare special, ad-hoc designs for individual articles. This might include creative data visualizations, a pull quote, a photo, or audiovisual integration. Our home page, article pages, section page, author pages, and meta-content pages all need your attention.
Familiarity with CSS and HTML is required. Experience with Figma is appreciated.
All members of our team will have access to our newly renovated office during the day, in Room 2208 of the AMS Nest. Volunteer designers will be eligible to apply for the paid, part-time position responsible for leading digital design at The Ubyssey later in the Winter.
Please detail your major(s) and any minor or certificate programs, etc.
If you have work samples, please send them to deputymanaging[at]ubyssey.ca and managing[at]ubyssey.ca.
Please complete the applicable skill assessments and upload them in PDF format. Kindly use the naming convention: UBSY_HRF_FullNameProductApplication-YYYY-MM-DD.
Part A: Compare our
website's home page, article pages, section pages, author pages, and meta-content pages with those same pages on
The Tyee's website and
The New York Times' website, and comment on their relative strengths and weaknesses.
We want you to be critical of our current design.
Part B: Choose one of those kinds of pages and redesign it with Figma (or a similar service).
