UI Designer for SAAS Platform | Part-Time

SIS SAAS Platform

Multiple Cities, USA

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We've built a Student Information System (SIS) for schools — attendance, gradebook, enrollment, and academic management. The core product is functional and in active use by a pilot school. We're now looking for an experienced UI designer to audit the existing design, identify what's holding it back visually and functionally, and guide focused improvements — not a ground-up redesign.

This is a light-touch, high-leverage engagement: a few hours a day, reviewing screens, flagging friction points, proposing fixes, and working with our developers to implement them incrementally.

Responsibilities

Conduct a full design audit of the existing platform (all core modules: dashboard, attendance, gradebook, enrollment, admin views)
Identify visual inconsistencies, poor spacing/typography/hierarchy, and unpolished UI patterns
Flag usability and flow issues — places where a user has to think too hard or take extra steps
Propose specific, prioritized fixes (not vague feedback — actionable direction: "this button hierarchy is wrong," "this table needs pagination," etc.)
Provide before/after mockups or annotated screens for key improvements
Work directly with our development team to review implemented changes against your recommendations
Help establish lightweight design consistency (spacing scale, color use, component patterns) so future screens stay coherent without a full design system build-out.
Proven SaaS design experience — worked on 50+ SaaS products (please share a portfolio or list of relevant projects)
Direct experience with SIS platforms or similar education/admin-heavy software (school management systems, ERPs, CRMs, or other data-dense internal tools) — this is a strong preference, not optional
Strong eye for information-dense UI — SIS platforms have a lot of tables, forms, and role-based views, and we need someone who knows how to make that feel clean, not cluttered
Comfortable auditing an existing product rather than designing from a blank canvas
Able to communicate feedback clearly and prioritize (we need "fix this first" guidance, not a 40-page report)
Self-directed — this is a few focused hours daily, not a full-time seat, so we need someone who can work independently and flag blockers early