UI/UX Designer Expert

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring UI/UX designers as contractors to author and grade the design scenarios those evaluations run on.

What you'll actually do

• Author realistic product design scenarios from brief through polished UI, the kind a working designer would actually receive.
• Write reference critiques with the design reasoning behind each judgment, from hierarchy and spacing to interaction patterns.
• Grade generated UIs for usability, visual craft, and whether they would survive contact with real users.
• Demonstrate Figma workflows, from auto layout and components to prototyping, the way designers actually work.

Who this is for

• Product, UI, or UX designers with at least two years of professional experience and shipped work to show.
• Designers who live in Figma and can articulate why a design works, not just make it look good.
• People with strong written English who can turn design intuition into clear, teachable reasoning.
• Practitioners who notice when a generated interface looks designed but would fail real users.

Contract and pay

• $60 to $120/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
• Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
• Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
• Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

How our hiring process works

1. Apply at /apply/ui-ux-designer-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
2. Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
3. Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
4. Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
5. Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.

About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic product design scenarios from brief through polished UI
• Write reference critiques with the design reasoning behind each judgment
• Grade generated UIs for hierarchy, usability, and visual craft
• Demonstrate Figma workflows the way a working designer actually uses them

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional UI or UX design experience
• Hands on depth in Figma or a comparable product design tool
• A portfolio showing shipped product or interface design work
• Clear written English for documenting design reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred Qualifications

• Design systems or component library experience
• Breadth across UX research, interaction design, and visual design
• Front end familiarity such as HTML, CSS, or developer handoff

Why Apply

• Work stays in your specialty, judged on design craft rather than output volume
• Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week
• Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience
• Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles design