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Motion Designer (UX/Interface)

ActAI · New York, United States · 1 wk ago
HybridArt & CreativeFull-time

About the role

You will design motion and animation for AI interfaces. In AI-driven products, motion is not decoration — it is how users understand system state, loading behavior, uncertainty, progress, and transitions between AI actions. This role applies HCI thinking to motion design: helping users understand what the system is doing, whether it needs attention, and what is happening next.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design motion and animation for AI product interfaces, including loading states, streaming responses, task progress, and system transitions.
  • Create motion that helps users understand what the AI is doing without requiring them to read long explanations.
  • Develop animation patterns for uncertainty, thinking states, waiting states, failure, recovery, and asynchronous AI processes.
  • Work with product and UX designers to define how motion supports feedback, confidence cues, and error states.
  • Build motion specs and prototypes that engineers can implement accurately.
  • Define and maintain motion design principles and a reusable animation library for AI surfaces.
  • Ensure motion performance is appropriate for real-time and latency-sensitive AI interactions.
  • Use motion to reduce confusion, not add decoration.

What You Will Need

  • Experience in motion design for digital products, with a portfolio showing interface animation.
  • Proficiency in After Effects, Lottie, Rive, or equivalent tools.
  • Understanding of how motion communicates system state, feedback, progress, and user guidance.
  • Ability to design animation that works within technical constraints of mobile and web.
  • Experience working closely with product designers and engineers.
  • Awareness of accessibility and performance considerations for animation.
  • Good judgment on when motion helps users and when it creates noise.
  • Curiosity about how motion can communicate AI behavior, trust signals, and uncertainty.

How We Work

The best products today in the world were built by small, world-class teams. We are a high-talent-density and hands-on team. We make decisions collectively, move at rapid speed, striking a balance between shipping high-quality work and learning. Joining our team requires the ability to bring structure, exercise judgment, and execute independently. Our goal is to put in the hands of our users a truly magical product.

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