Description
Interaction Designer
Location: Telford (remote at present)
Initial Duration: 6 months
* GDS Experience is essential.*
* MANDATED PAYE.*
We are heading up a recruitment drive on behalf of a global IT consultancy that require a Interaction Designer to join their team on a major government project that is based remotely.
UX Designers work with user researchers and Front End developers, designing in the browser, to deliver highly user focussed and successful services. UX designers produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with Front End developers to implement those concepts. The ideal candidate will have a love of the web and its possibilities, a passion for design and its history and an understanding of how form and function work together.
Tasks:
Produce design concepts for digital services, often working to very tight deadlines, and work with Front End developers to implement those concepts
Design and create communication material ensuring all elements are well designed, consistent and user focused
Assisting the Team Leader in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion
Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience, including by 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 finished digital service designs that meet web standards and GDS/GOV.UK design principles, ensuring that elements such as accessibility are built into designs from the outset
Proactively seek new learning opportunities and look to continually improve by gaining feedback from your peers and the business
Communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally
Technical Skills:
Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the Web
Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser
A good 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, rapid prototyping
Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.
Experience in 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.
Leading and Communicating
Seeing the Bigger Picture
Delivering at Pace