Description
Job Title: UX Designer
Location: Remote
Salary/Rate: up to £560 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date:
Job Type: Contract
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our public sector clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Interaction Designer to join their team for a six-month contract.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
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.
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Practical experience in designing interfaces and transaction flows for the Web.
Ability to prototype for the web & design in browser.
Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.
A good understanding of web technologies and how they affect design, including accessibility.
Experience of web and mobile application interface design.
Sketching, design production, hand-coded HTML & CSS, rapid prototyping.
Responsive web interactions design for mobile devices.
Experience in researching design with users.
Contact Information
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.