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Part-Time AI Product Designer (Homemade Apps)

Part-time, contract role
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Playful is for Homemade Apps

Making things by hand is one of life's real pleasures. It's the joy of making something for the people you love, the freedom to get it exactly the way you want, and the say over what comes into your home. A batch of cookies with less sugar. A birthday card that means something. A costume that isn't factory junk. But that kind of making has never really been an option for the apps and games in your life. So you're left with a choice: take the ads, the in-app purchases, and the tracking, or leave it. And more and more people are just leaving it.

Until now. With Playful, anyone can make beautiful homemade apps for themselves and the people in their lives. They work seamlessly, look great, and have all your personal touches: the photos, colors, and art you choose, plus features built around how you and your people actually work. A chore chart with your kids' real chores. Trivia full of your family's inside jokes. No ads, and everything is private.

The Role

You'll design and build apps across a range of categories and visual styles to show people what's possible with Playful. We'll pair you with a QA partner, but you should be handing off work that's already solid.

What You'll Need

1
A love of making thingsWe have plenty of app ideas to start with, but over time we want someone who brings their own. Someone who thinks of a solution to a problem, or a game that would be fun to play, and wants to build it.
2
Strong, versatile design senseAirtight fundamentals (spacing, alignment, hierarchy, typography) and the ability to move across aesthetic styles.
3
Enough technical awareness to QA your own workYou understand how software behaves well enough to catch functional issues before they get to QA.

What Would Make You a Great Fit

🧶You get why homemade mattersIf you knit, cook, build, or just understand what it means to make something by hand for someone you care about, that comes through in the work.
🏡You know what real family life looks likeThe best apps in our gallery will actually serve households. Familiarity with the real needs of family life is a meaningful advantage.

Sound like you?

Send a few sentences about yourself and a link to your portfolio — or make some apps on playful.app and send those.