Mirai Inc UI Designer Wanted

POSTED BY DANNY CHOO On Sun 2009/10/25 11:48 JST in Living in Japan Guide
I'm currently looking for somebody who fits the following description - have you seen him or her. Or maybe you are him or her?
  • Has experience using Photoshop or Fireworks for website mockups.
  • Has experience with Flash.
  • Is able to work remotely via mail, phone, or Skype.
  • Has a Paypal account which I would pay you through.
  • Would like to work with top name Japanese brands in the anime, figure and merchandising business.
  • Can work with Japanese fonts (not not necessarily able to read it)
  • Is able to work with little direction.
  • Is familiar with terms such as Breadcrumbs, Landing Pages, Conversion, Above the Fold.
  • Does not matter whether you work on Mac or Windows.
Folks who think they fit the description and would be interested in working with my company Mirai Inc, please create 3 mockups for the dannychoo.com top page.
  • One mockup is for new visitors - a landing page such as the one at Flickr.
  • One mockup is for casual visitors who visit DC a few times a week. These users are mainly interested in my updates.
  • Final mockup is for readers who visit the top page every day. These users are generally interested in all content like Live Bloggers, photo articles, member news.
  • The three types of top page will be set by a cookie so that users can choose to flip between the 3. When a cookie is not set, a user will automatically see the landing page for new users.
Please send mocks to or post on figure.fm. One of the requirements is to work with little guidance so the above bullets are all the information I'm giving you ^^;
Would love to having something by Tuesday JST but anytime after is fine too.
The mockups are required to establish your ability to deliver an attractive and practical UI. Commission based work will proceed after.
The designers who work with us will be required to sign an NDA due to the nature of the work involved with my clients.
Superstars may be offered jobs in Tokyo (late 2010) and my company will sponsor your visa. I don't care what qualifications you have but unfortunately you at least need a university degree which is a requirement by the Japanese government in order for me to sponsor your visa.
I will also be looking to hire a full time developer in January next year and will post details soon.
Will also be considering intern positions in 2010 for folks who can either illustrate cute n yummy anime girls, code (PHP, MYSQL, JQuery), Program Management (fancy word for project manager). Interns will require a good command of Japanese language (spoken and written).
Priority is given to dannychoo.com readers as they already know the brand and understand the field that I work in.