UX/Interaction Designer - Newcastle - INSIDE IR35

Tyne and Wear  ‐ Onsite
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Description

My Government client is undergoing a major digital transformation programme to make tax easier - enabling customers to do more online and in Real Time, wherever they are. To do this, we need a team of outstanding people to create and run these new digital services and who understand the web, technology and people.

As an Interaction Designer you will:

  • Work within agile delivery teams to produce and implement high-quality design concepts for digital services
  • Work with user researchers to ensure all output, internal and external, is well designed and user focused
  • Design and deliver consistent, user focused communication material
  • Partner with colleagues to ensure a consistent user experience across services, including designing reusable elements of a digital service
  • Build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts
  • Deliver high quality digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that ensure that compliance with accessibility standards is built into designs from the outset.
  • Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines internally and externally.
  • Participate in the wider Interaction Design community, building relationships with other designers, identifying learning opportunities and best practices we can adopt.

Skills and Experience:

  • Proven experience of designing interfaces and transaction flows for the web
  • Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser
  • A good basic understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility
  • Experience of web and mobile application interface design
  • Core skills: sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS and rapid prototyping
  • Experience of responsive web interactions design for mobile devices
  • Experience of researching design with users
  • Service design experience, including user journey mapping
  • Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team
Start date
ASAP
Duration
2 month ++ Rolling
(extension possible)
From
Mercator IT Solutions
Published at
19.07.2017
Project ID:
1383163
Contract type
Freelance
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