Digital Designer - Interactive & Web

TasteMakers is a curated network of designers, creative technologists, and AI-native makers working on projects with leading AI labs, tech companies, and brands. We're on a mission to end AI slop.

We're looking for digital designers with exceptional visual taste in websites and interactive experiences. You design sites people remember: considered layouts, expressive typography, purposeful motion and interaction, and craft that holds up at every breakpoint. Bonus if you can also build and refine what you design, whether by hand or with AI coding tools.

This is a general pool for web and interactive design experts. Qualified designers are matched to active, paid projects as they open.

Remote and async, as an independent contractor. Commitment: 15-40 hours per week.

What you will do

• Design websites, landing pages, and interactive experiences from a brief, with a high visual-quality bar
• Build and refine working sites using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar), troubleshooting and iterating until the output matches the design
• Judge and stack-rank websites and web apps on aesthetics, UI/UX, interaction, and technical execution, with brief, opinionated rationale
• Write prompts that generate web and interactive designs, then identify genuine visual errors (overlaps, misalignment, overflow, broken responsive behavior) versus personal preference
• Give specific, principle-based critique on layout, hierarchy, typography, motion, and responsiveness
• Apply your professional judgment to help AI systems learn what separates mediocre from exceptional design

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience as a web, digital, or interactive designer
• An exceptional visual portfolio of shipped websites or interactive work (live links strongly preferred)
• Expert command of layout, typography, hierarchy, spacing, and responsive design
• A strong eye for interaction and motion: you know when it adds to an experience and when it gets in the way
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS; comfortable inspecting a page in browser dev tools
• Ability to articulate clearly and precisely what works or doesn't in a design, in plain language
• Strongly preferred: enough HTML/CSS/JS fluency to ship a site without a separate frontend developer, and experience building with AI coding tools
• Background at a digital agency, product house, or interactive studio is a strong plus

Application

Tell us about yourself and share your portfolio link. ~10 min

Skills test

Static mockups only tell part of the story. Share links to live sites you've designed (and built, if you did), and tell us exactly what you contributed to each one. ~10 min

Remote and async, as an independent contractor. Taste Labs pays twice a month by bank transfer or Wise; rates are set per project and not published.