Description
Visual Designer - Initial 6 months - Edinburgh
Our Banking client is offering an exciting opportunity for a Visual Designer to join their Edinburgh based team on an initial 6 month contract.
The candidates' responsibilities include:
- Define and extend the visual designs of assigned web products, working closely with user experience architects and product owners creating new and extending existing products and features
- Assist in the definition of a visual designer language, design patterns, and principles that centre around re-use
- Ability to translate customer insights into designed experiences (then telling a compelling story around it)
- Developing visual designs iterative working closely with interaction designers and other UX team colleagues to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Content and application audits including gauging the usability of new and existing products and making constructive suggestions for change
- Champion of the best possible visual design solutions, principles and processes
- Work with agile project teams and key stakeholders to develop and deliver user centred solutions within project time frame and objectives
The successful candidate must have the following skills/knowledge:
- Experience of delivering applications for use in high performance environments
- Proven experience in visual design with proven track record of providing visual design for applications.
- Have a portfolio demonstrating both creative thinking and delivery of solid visual design solutions
- An eye for visual interaction details, excellent creative skills, excellent verbal skills and an ability to think creatively & laterally
- Disciplined UCD approach to their work and will be comfortable presenting their work & the rationale behind it.
- Must have expertise in Sketch and Adobe Creative Cloud applications
- Practical understanding of responsive and adaptive design
- Experience of working with other digital designers and UX teams
Should this Visual Designer position be of interest and you hold the above skills please submit your CV and I will be in contact by telephone as required.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age