Description
Contract duration: 1 year
Location: Leeds
Pay rate: £450pd
Position: Service Designer
IR35: Inside IR35
Must be SC Eligible
Minimum Requirement:
At least 2 to 3 years experience as a Service Designer or Systems Thinker.
Experience solving design and research challenges through collaboration and user participation.
The ability to translate research insight into opportunities and solutions for service users via the application of design research methods eg user journeys, services mapping, prototyping etc.
Ability to develop hands on interaction design solutions for the products that enable the service
A diverse set of methods & tools that allow them to illustrate the opportunities to improve specific service components and touch-points.
Appreciation for and demonstrated ability to connect design solutions to pragmatic implementation
A belief that a focus on people is fundamental in creating inclusive policies, products and services for social impact.
Have a design-related degree or experience on a product, interaction or UX design role.
Define elements - layout, design patterns, controls and actions
Desirable
Ideally the candidate will also:
Have experience of working directly with Front End code to update prototypes - skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript aren't essential, but all our designers learn the basics
Be able to write for user interfaces
Have demonstrable experience of collaborating on designs with a software engineer
Have demonstrable experience of working in technical teams in complex environments
Be able to manage other people's work, including planning work and checking it to make sure it's consistent and appropriate across products and services
CV Deadline: Wednesday 12th Feb 10am
You must be prepared to submit a portfolio to us. Please email this to (see below)
Please apply for more information