User Experience Designer/UX Designer

Tyne and Wear  ‐ Onsite
This project has been archived and is not accepting more applications.
Browse open projects on our job board.

Description

Sopra Steria Recruitment is working in partnership with a major public sector client in the UK. We are currently recruiting a User Experience Designer/UX Designer for an initially 3 month contract based in Newcastle.

Responsibilities:

  • Ability to clearly extract and understand real user needs from a variety of research methods. Including ethnographic studies, usability testing, surveys, interviews, site metrics and analytics.
  • Translate user needs into the design of applications and services.
  • Design and prototype user journeys, interfaces and interactions. Simplify complex transactions and explain clearly to non-designers the reasons for design choices.
  • Working closely with user researchers to actively input to research plans, create personas, assist with testing and analysing research results.
  • Work with other designers to create a library of standard design patterns and promote its use across digital services

Essential experience:

  • Experience with HTML5, JQuery, JavaScript
  • Experience planning and executing a variety of research methods, including ethnographic studies, usability testing (in a variety of environments), surveys, interviews, site metrics and analytics.
  • Technical expertise in prototyping, wireframing, problem framing, user research, and data visualisation
  • Experience of designing user journeys, aligned with SEO guidelines, information architecture and content maps
  • Track record of working on projects delivering, effective solutions across multiple channels/platforms
  • An understanding of how the technical aspects of accessibility and usability need to be applied to digital services
  • Demonstrate empathy towards a varied base of users
  • Ability to communicate design concepts to a wide range of audiences
  • Experience of working in an agile project team
  • Experience of design using GDS standards.
  • Experience developing new functionality and services within an online or business.

Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited acts as both an employment business and as an employment agency.

Please Note: Shortlisted candidates would be contacted via Call/Email.

Apply now to know more..!

Start date
ASAP
Duration
3 months
From
Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited
Published at
09.05.2017
Project ID:
1339605
Contract type
Freelance
To apply to this project you must log in.
Register