UI/UX Designers (Must own MacBook)

$50–60/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~10–20 hrs/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Creative

Complete and narrate real UI/UX workflows on your own compatible Mac to help evaluate and improve AI models. The role is designed for UI/UX designers with 2-3 years of professional experience or current or recent postgraduate HCI or design study.

The work

You will complete realistic product design tasks on your own Mac, including interface design, wireframing, prototyping and design-system work. As you work, you will narrate your reasoning and explain choices such as hierarchy, interaction patterns, component behavior and usability tradeoffs so the resulting workflows can support AI research.

What the screening covers

Mercor begins with a resume review and a three-minute AI interview focused on research and reasoning. Expect questions that check the specifics of your design background, proficiency with tools such as Figma, Sketch, Framer or Adobe XD, and your ability to defend decisions under follow-up. A brief paid assessment then evaluates fit through practical work. Familiarity with user research and usability testing is a plus.

Practical details

The commitment is approximately 10-20 hours per week, with an immediate start preferred. You must perform the work on a MacBook or Mac with an Apple M-series chip or Intel processor running macOS 15 or higher. The listing does not specify whether scheduling is fully asynchronous or whether any fixed working hours apply.

Pay band: $50–60/hr

What they look for

UI/UX design for web or mobile interfaces
Wireframing and interactive prototyping
Proficiency with Figma, Sketch, Framer or Adobe XD
Design-system and reusable component design
Clear narration of design decisions
Professional UI/UX experience or postgraduate HCI or design study

Included with this listing

Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: This verifies whether your experience or postgraduate study matches the stated route into the role and whether you can separate your own work from a team’s output.
A strong answer: Give dates, your role, the product and platform, the design stages you owned, and a concrete outcome or artifact. If the example came from postgraduate study, distinguish assessed project work from paid professional experience.
Where people lose it: Candidates lose credibility by describing a polished product without specifying which research, flows, screens, prototypes or components they personally produced.

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