Description
UX Designer
Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a UX Designer
Key Requirements:
- Ability to clearly extract and understand real user needs from a variety of research methods. Including ethnographic studies, usability testing, surveys, interviews, site metrics and analytics
- Translate user needs into the design of applications and services
- Design and prototype user journeys, interfaces and interactions
- Simplify complex transactions and explain clearly to non-designers the reasons for design choices
- Working closely with user researchers to actively input to research plans, create personas, assist with testing and analysing research results
- Work with other designers to create a library of standard design patterns and promote its use across digital services
Key Skills:
- Experience of working in an agile project team
- Experience of design using GDS standards
- Experience developing new functionality and services within an online or business
- HTML5
- JQuery
- JavaScript
- Experience planning and executing a variety of research methods, including ethnographic studies, usability testing (in a variety of environments), surveys, interviews, site metrics and analytics
- Technical expertise in prototyping, wireframing, problem framing, user research, and data visualisation
- Experience of designing user journeys, aligned with SEO guidelines, information architecture and content maps
- Track record of working on projects delivering, effective solutions across multiple channels/platforms
- An understanding of how the technical aspects of accessibility and usability need to be applied to digital services
- Demonstrate empathy towards a varied base of users
- Ability to communicate design concepts to a wide range of audiences