Description
UX Designer
Our client is urgently looking for an experienced UX Designer to join their team based near Oxford, on a contract basis, initially for 6 months with a view to extend. The assignment is Inside IR35. The UX Designer will work remotely, with some travel to the office required on occasion.
UX Designer - Key Skills:
- Experience participating in and preparing discovery workshops
- Experience translating customer needs into solution concepts and articulating these through workflows, wireframes and possibly prototypes
- Experience translating wireframes into more detailed interface designs
- You have a passion for well-crafted user experiences
- You enjoy solving problems and taking on new challenges, using a mix of creative and analytical methods
- You are a strong collaborator with a sense of responsibility for the team's collective success
- You are a seasoned UX Designer - this isn't a good fit for someone just out of school or in the process of transitioning into UX Design
- You think on your feet, like to learn, and can learn quickly
- Contributing to (and depending on experience, leading) the UX of complex projects through from Discovery to Delivery, including everything in between
- Participating in and sometimes leading research to help you and your team generate understanding and empathy for your users and their needs
- Reviewing requirements gathered from client stakeholders and subject matter experts, and exploring how these can be translated into compelling design concepts
- Planning and facilitating workshops to help you, your team, and customers discover needs, set project direction, and ideate solutions
- Crafting experiences that go beyond good design into delighting users
- Communicating your designs both internally to team members, and to stakeholders, not only through sketches, wireframes and mockups, but also verbally and in workshops
- Testing designs with users
- Helping non-UX professionals to understand the value of UX and adopt UX practices - we believe the experience is a shared responsibility and want to take the whole team on the journey
- Drawing upon existing design standards and pattern libraries, as well as identifying opportunities to expand them where necessary
- Thinking about Information Architecture and how best to expose only what is necessary to the end user through simple UI and Interaction
- Hands-on experience working in an Enterprise environment
- Experience using Sketch.
- Ability to create clickable prototypes of your design concepts, either in code or using tools such as Omnigraffle, Axure, Figma and Principle.
- Working in an agile environment.
- Successful experience in more complex fields such as healthcare, finance, enterprise, etc.
UX Designer
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